Barriers to Care

Question 1

What do barriers to care look like?

Answer 1

• Money/Insurance
• Access (no insurance or transportation)
• language and cultural differences
• different communication styles
• Disability- impaired sight, ASL
• Older age/dementia

Question 2

What are social determinants of health?

Answer 2

• SDOH are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of quality of life outcomes and risks.

Social Determinants:
- Economic Stability
- Education Access and Quality
- Health Care Access and Quality (1 in 10 people in the US don’t have health insurance)
- Neighborhood and Built Environment (high rates of violence, unsafe air or water, health and safety risks, etc.)
- Social and Community Context (relationships with family, colleagues, and friends)

Question 3

What are the benefits of addressing SDOH barriers in PCC?

Answer 3

• having conversations with friends and colleagues that think and look differently that me
• Improves Health Attainment (Reducing health disparities by addressing the root causes of worse health outcomes)
• Improves pt outcomes (enhanced medication adherence, pt satisfaction, quality of life, and health status)
• Improves Cost Savings (reduced cost burden of unnecessary ER visits, hospitalizations, avoidable medication non-adherence, and reduce disease complications

Question 4

What are innovative strategies to address SDOH barriers in PCC?

Answer 4

Community of Health Workers
- Empathetic
- Go into the homes of pts that need help and help consult them
- Providing nurtitional interventions to support patients living with diabetes, HIV, breast cancer, and expentent mothers. Along with providing nutrition support, other SDOH are screened and addressed through collaborations with comunity health workers.