Social Determinants of Health

The AHA awarded the Foster G. McGaw Prize to Boston Medical Center (BMC) Health System for its achievements in improving access to high-quality health care — particularly for underserved areas — and developing innovative partnerships with community organizations.
Coaching sessions that HCC enrollees can participate in throughout the year to exchange knowledge and collaborative strategies with peers.
The Hospital Community Collaborative's Academy offers specialized workshops for hospital and community organizations looking to improve their work.
The purpose of this guide is to show local health department (LHD) epidemiologists, data analysts, and other professionals how to collect, analyze, and display a prioritized list of social determinant of health living condition (SDOH-LC) indicators and frame these data in the context of…
This report covers the Hospital Community Collaborative’s impact on community health between 2018-2023, detailing the program’s history and elements.
HCC’s mission is to create the next generation of effective clinical-community partnerships. The HCC experience and structure is featured.
Guidance and resources to support hospitals’ efforts to assess, plan for and respond to the environment’s impact on community health.
Social isolation and loneliness are important social determinants of physical and mental health that we, as a society, need to pay attention to and develop ways to mitigate their deleterious effects.
More than 1,000 people gathered May 7 for the AHA Accelerating Health Equity Conference in Kansas City, Mo. During this afternoon’s opening session, Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., CEO and president of Dartmouth Health and 2024 chair of the AHA Board of Trustees, called out the “power of partnership” —…