"The Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved released a video on November 13th highlighting several factors that interfere with patients’ ability to get health care needs met. Watch the video here, featuring ClinicNET affiliates! These factors, known as social determinants of health, are things like income, education, access to quality food and housing, race, or ethnicity. A patient’s ability to navigate the health care system and get their needs met is defined by these social determinants and their provider’s ability to work with those challenges.
This video aims to increase awareness and empathy among current and future providers, as well as encourage creative thinking to find new solutions to these old problems. We believe that this is key to improving patient outcomes and compliance. We believe that the field of medicine is a science, but the practice of health care is an art that acknowledges the whole of the patient’s life.
You can also view the video on the website here, and you can also review the discussion guide meant to spark a conversation after the video is viewed." [Source: CCMU]
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