Focusing On The Non-Health Factors Of Health
It’s no secret—social factors affect health care spending. Last year, Bechara Choucair, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Community Health Officer, Kaiser Permanente, provided the health plan perspective on social determinants of health in his keynote, Mind, Body, Community: Kaiser Permanente’s Unique Approach, at The 2019 OPEN MINDS Management Best Practices Institute. The message was reiterated by Andy McMahon, Vice President, Health and Human Services Policy, UnitedHealthcare Community, in his discussion of housing issues at the keynote session, Housing Is Health Care: A Post-Pandemic …
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