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from David M. Lawrence, former chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals:

Focus on food insecurity and slum housing, they said. And create a patient-centered medical home to deal with people’s medical and social issues.

first began to understand health as a social phenomenon that starts and ends outside the clinic walls.

For those interested, a more comprehensive list of policy solutions and opportunities to advance an upstreamist approach can be found at healthbegins.org

In our shared imagination, the concept of health has been shaped by this downstream activity, where doctors and nurses discover and treat disease.

California, for instance, recently launched a Health in All Policies initiative to factor health into a wide swath of state decisions.

The healthy housing program we had set up had helped thousands of children and adults like Veronica. We had worked with a community partner to set up a produce stand and resource guide to help families experiencing hunger and food insecurity. A medical-legal partnership we had created shortly after I started at the clinic was blossoming. Thousands