"Achieving population-based shifts in health outcomes for low-income communities requires moving far beyond text message reminders..."

Social Determinants Of Health: Holy Grail Or Dead-End Road?

"Achieving population-based shifts in health outcomes for low-income communities requires moving far beyond text message reminders, Uber rides to clinic visits and vouchers for farmer’s markets and food pantries. These shifts demand bold and transformative steps to address poverty by providing education, economic opportunity and a pathway to lifelong economic stability. Congressman Bill Cassidy also said, 'Prosperity is the key to improving health outcomes'. As we develop interventions for the social determinants of health, unless we begin to heed this message, in the years ahead rather than finding the Holy Grail, we will instead certainly find ourselves on the path to a dead-end road."