Health Navigator intervention to address the unmet social needs of populations living with cancer attending outpatient treatment at a major metropolitan hospital in Australia: protocol for a mixed-methods feasibility trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Integrating health and social care to address unmet social needs is an emerging priority for health systems worldwide. Screening and referral interventions for unmet social needs, also known as Health Navigator (HN) interventions, in healthcare settings have shown mixed but promising results, mostly due to a large variability in intervention design and outcomes assessed. Most HN interventions are implemented in primary care, despite evidence that disadvantaged populations face substantial barriers to accessing such care, and these interventions are limited in Australia. To address this gap, we designed a HN intervention to address the unmet social needs of a disadvantaged population living with cancer presenting at an outpatient cancer treatment facility in South Austr

SUBMITTER: Neadley K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11605821 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature