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Leslie KaoFrom Ali Saker:
If we take the effort to ask our patients about their access to food. People feel ashamed to share unless they get asked. SDH has a multigenerational impact. Our job is to work teaching patients about different resources put in by the state for the community, educating patients especially who has Medicaid and Medicare about free transportation offered by their insurance, and possibly grouping their appointments on the same day, and grouping family’s appointments on the same day. That will help achieve a better show up rate and better overall health. IF we are moving forward to recognize these health problems, that would increase the overall population health. If children are born to low socioeconomic status families, the lack of education will have significant correlation to health outcomes which is frightening.
I believe to improve healthcare in general, we should ship healthcare funds to increase the social support in order to address the invisible link of SDH.