MS 350 Comprehensive Health Assessment for Patients and Populations

Comprehensive Health Assessment for Patients and Populations Strategy Studies have shown that social determinants play a major role in the detection, treatment, and follow up care of patients diagnosed with any healthcare condition. Access to care, transportation, income, insurance, where a person was born, where they live, and/or their support system are just a few examples of factors that affect a persons state of health. Social determinants of health are conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018, para....