Knowledge@Wharton: Why Addressing Social Factors Could Improve U.S. Health Care

“But broad changes are taking shape. Payers of health care are increasingly incorporating the concepts of social determinants of health into the way they think about reimbursing for health care services and providing incentives for health care delivery organizations, says Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, senior fellow at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, population health and health equity professor at Penn Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton professor of health care management. Read more at Knowledge@Wharton