Dr. Doogie Howser is your personal family doctor; The Mayo Clinic is your hospital; and those $2 million dollar-priced gene therapy drugs you get free at no cost to you. There is one problem: you are homeless and live under a bridge. You and the hospital bed, emergency room, will become a revolving door. Welcome to Social Determinants of Healthcare (SDOH). “It’s Your Zipcode, not Your Genetic Code.”
Why Should You Attend
SDOH accounts for approximately 2/3 of the quality of one’s health status; the other third is accounted for by clinical and scientific expertise and medicine. So it behoves our healthcare sources to pursue those factors that account for the majority of healthcare quality. As healthcare spend nears 20 percent of Gross Domestic Product (currently $5 trillion a year), this cannot be sustained.
Learning Objectives
This webinar will discuss Housing/Homelessness; Crime; Poverty; Subpar Education; Transportation; Food Deserts; Lack of Jobs; and Release From Prison & Return to Society. Dozens of hospital studies have been conducted since 2010 that show where a person is born and raised affects longevity. The 1st such study showed that those born on the poorer south side of Chicago lived 14 fewer years than their wealthier counterparts who lived in the more affluent neighbourhoods in Chicago. Since then, dozens and dozens of similar studies confirm this SDOH impact.
Who Will Benefit?
- Anyone involved in the delivery and impact of healthcare: physicians, nurses, pharmacists, insurers, hospital administrators, physician assistants
SDOH accounts for approximately 2/3 of the quality of one’s health status; the other third is accounted for by clinical and scientific expertise and medicine. So it behoves our healthcare sources to pursue those factors that account for the majority of healthcare quality. As healthcare spend nears 20 percent of Gross Domestic Product (currently $5 trillion a year), this cannot be sustained.
This webinar will discuss Housing/Homelessness; Crime; Poverty; Subpar Education; Transportation; Food Deserts; Lack of Jobs; and Release From Prison & Return to Society. Dozens of hospital studies have been conducted since 2010 that show where a person is born and raised affects longevity. The 1st such study showed that those born on the poorer south side of Chicago lived 14 fewer years than their wealthier counterparts who lived in the more affluent neighbourhoods in Chicago. Since then, dozens and dozens of similar studies confirm this SDOH impact.
- Anyone involved in the delivery and impact of healthcare: physicians, nurses, pharmacists, insurers, hospital administrators, physician assistants
