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How Engaged Are Family Physicians in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health? A Survey Supporting the American Academy of Family Physician's Health Equity Environmental Scan
Purpose: Public health leaders have advocated for clinical and population-based interventions to address the social determinants of health (SDoH). The American Academy of Family Physicians has worked to support family physicians with addressing the SDoH. However, the extent that family physicians ar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31448355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2019.0022 |
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author | Kovach, Kevin A. Reid, Kathy Grandmont, Jené Jones, Danielle Wood, Julie Schoof, Bellinda |
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description | Purpose: Public health leaders have advocated for clinical and population-based interventions to address the social determinants of health (SDoH). The American Academy of Family Physicians has worked to support family physicians with addressing the SDoH. However, the extent that family physicians are engaged and the factors that influence this are unknown. Methods: A survey was used to identify actions family physicians had taken to address the SDoH and perceived barriers. Physician and community characteristics were linked. Ordinal logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with engagement in clinical and population-based actions, separately. Results: There were 434 (8.7%) responses. Among respondents, 81.1% were engaged in at least one clinical action, and 43.3% were engaged in at least one population-based action. Time (80.0%) and staffing (64.5%) were the most common barriers. Physician experience was associated with higher levels of clinical engagement, lower median household income was associated with higher levels of population-based engagement, and working for a federally qualified health center (FQHC) was associated with both. Conclusions: The study provides preliminary information suggesting that family physicians are engaged in addressing the SDoH through clinical and population-based actions. Newer family physicians and those working in FQHCs may be good targets for piloting clinical actions to address SDoH and family physician advocates may be more likely to come from an FQHC or in a lower socioeconomic neighborhood. The study also raises questions about the value family physicians serving disadvantaged communities place on clinical interventions to address the SDoH. |
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spelling | pubmed-67070322019-08-23 How Engaged Are Family Physicians in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health? A Survey Supporting the American Academy of Family Physician's Health Equity Environmental Scan Kovach, Kevin A. Reid, Kathy Grandmont, Jené Jones, Danielle Wood, Julie Schoof, Bellinda Health Equity Original Article Purpose: Public health leaders have advocated for clinical and population-based interventions to address the social determinants of health (SDoH). The American Academy of Family Physicians has worked to support family physicians with addressing the SDoH. However, the extent that family physicians are engaged and the factors that influence this are unknown. Methods: A survey was used to identify actions family physicians had taken to address the SDoH and perceived barriers. Physician and community characteristics were linked. Ordinal logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with engagement in clinical and population-based actions, separately. Results: There were 434 (8.7%) responses. Among respondents, 81.1% were engaged in at least one clinical action, and 43.3% were engaged in at least one population-based action. Time (80.0%) and staffing (64.5%) were the most common barriers. Physician experience was associated with higher levels of clinical engagement, lower median household income was associated with higher levels of population-based engagement, and working for a federally qualified health center (FQHC) was associated with both. Conclusions: The study provides preliminary information suggesting that family physicians are engaged in addressing the SDoH through clinical and population-based actions. Newer family physicians and those working in FQHCs may be good targets for piloting clinical actions to address SDoH and family physician advocates may be more likely to come from an FQHC or in a lower socioeconomic neighborhood. The study also raises questions about the value family physicians serving disadvantaged communities place on clinical interventions to address the SDoH. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2019-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6707032/ /pubmed/31448355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2019.0022 Text en © Kevin A. Kovach et al. 2019; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Kovach, Kevin A. Reid, Kathy Grandmont, Jené Jones, Danielle Wood, Julie Schoof, Bellinda How Engaged Are Family Physicians in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health? A Survey Supporting the American Academy of Family Physician's Health Equity Environmental Scan |
title | How Engaged Are Family Physicians in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health? A Survey Supporting the American Academy of Family Physician's Health Equity Environmental Scan |
title_full | How Engaged Are Family Physicians in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health? A Survey Supporting the American Academy of Family Physician's Health Equity Environmental Scan |
title_fullStr | How Engaged Are Family Physicians in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health? A Survey Supporting the American Academy of Family Physician's Health Equity Environmental Scan |
title_full_unstemmed | How Engaged Are Family Physicians in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health? A Survey Supporting the American Academy of Family Physician's Health Equity Environmental Scan |
title_short | How Engaged Are Family Physicians in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health? A Survey Supporting the American Academy of Family Physician's Health Equity Environmental Scan |
title_sort | how engaged are family physicians in addressing the social determinants of health? a survey supporting the american academy of family physician's health equity environmental scan |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31448355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2019.0022 |
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