The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
You’d be wise to spend only about $10 of your budget on medical care and spend more on improving social and environmental factors such as substandard housing, job stress, poverty, discrimination, and dangerous neighborhoods — what experts often call the “social determinants of health.” When we think about what really shapes our health, medical care
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Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community
The document addresses the issue of loneliness and isolation in society, highlighting the importance of social connection for individual health, well-being, and community outcomes.
hhs.govthe basic need to give and receive care has been a feature of the human condition since the dawn of time. The goal of a humane, effective and sustainable care system – something that is set to touch the lives of millions of us – continues to defy resolution and in some respects we have gone backwards.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
the most common and long-standing policy ambition across the developed world is to shift the balance of services away from hospitals and long-term care settings towards care based in people’s own homes and communities.