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There’s now a strong understanding that social factors can have a greater impact on health and well-being than clinical care.This insight coupled with payment models that reward providers for keeping the populations they serve healthy has led some innovative health systems to address these social factors directly—investing in housing for homeless patients, opening food pantries or farmer’s markets to address food insecurity, creating medical-legal partnerships to assist patients under threat of eviction and promoting healthy development in their neighborhoods.
