Health and Disability

We know that as the energy in the health care world turns to reinventing health care delivery systems, social and economic determinants of health and the role they play in community health are front and center. Studies have uniformly shown that social, economic, environmental and behavioral factors play a larger role in determining health than genetics and health care combined (as illustrated by the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps program infographic below).

However, we know that addressing any of the social and economic determinants of health requires robust partnerships between health care systems and providers, as well as numerous others in the community, many of whom may have never worked together in a formal way. The intersection between health and human services and housing is well-documented by the Kresge Foundation and Policy Link in their Healthy Communities of Opportunity: An Equity Blueprint to Address America’s Housing Challenges