Money Moves the Mare: The Response of Community-Based Organizations to Health Care's Embrace of Social Determinants.

ABSTRACT: Policy Points Health policies that encourage health and social integration can induce community-based organizations (CBOs) to adopt new ways of working from health care organizations, including their language, staffing patterns, and metrics. These changes can be explained by CBOs' perceptions that health care organizations may provide new sources of revenue. While the welfare implications of these changes are not yet known, policymakers should consider balancing the benefits of professionalizing CBOs against the risks of medicalizing them.

Context

Recent health policies incentivize health care providers to collaborate with community-based organizations (CBOs), such as food pantries and homeless shelters, to address patients' social determinants of health (SDOH). The perspectives of

SUBMITTER: Taylor LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7984660 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature