Racial Health Equity and Social Needs Interventions: A Review of a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Social needs interventions aim to improve health outcomes and mitigate inequities by addressing health-related social needs, such as lack of transportation or food insecurity. However, it is not clear whether these studies are reducing racial or ethnic inequities.

Objective

To understand how studies of interventions addressing social needs among multiracial or multiethnic populations conceptualize and analyze differential intervention outcomes by race or ethnicity.

Evidence review

Sources included a scoping review of systematic searches of PubMed and the Cochrane Library from January 1, 1995, through November 29, 2021, expert suggestions, and hand searches of key citations. Eligible studies evaluated interventions addressing social needs; reported behaviora

SUBMITTER: Cene CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857687 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature