The California Primary Care Association (CPCA) is committed to supporting Community Health Centers (CHCs) to learn more about the Social Drivers of Health (SDOH) affecting their patients.
Resources
This innovative, asynchronous, online course is designed to empower health care professionals with knowledge and skills to collect and respond to SDOH data and improve population health outcomes.
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This peer network supports health centers at all parts of the journey to understand SDOH, and learn from and collaborate with each other. The meeting is held bi-monthly as a space to learn about how CHCs in California are selecting tools to collect and address data and developing workflows to ensure successful SDOH data collection.
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In the realm of healthcare access, the OEPN is a collaborative platforn that provides health centers and consortia members with continuous support, facilitating the exchange of insights, tools, and resources to optimize the enrollment process and enhance service deliver for patients and elevating best practices in SDOH.
The ACEs Aware initiative is a first-in-the nation effort to screen patients for Adverse Childhood Experiences and to prevent and address the impact of ACEs and toxic stress. CPCA leverages partnerships to improve ACEs screening data to achieve better patient care, trauma-informed and resilience oriented (TIRO) practices, and informed community-wide systems of care.
Overview
What Are Social Drivers of Health?
Social Drivers of Health, or the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, play, work, and age, are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources. Factors such as socioeconomic conditions, environmental factors, institutional power, and social networks are considered “upstream” because they occur earlier in the chain and ultimately impact characteristics further “downstream” (e.g., health behaviors, conditions, and outcomes).
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimates that only 20 percent of health outcomes can be attributed to clinical care. Upstream social drivers of health account for the other 80 percent, including social and economic factors (40 percent), physical environment (10 percent), and health behaviors (30 percent).