The COVID-19 Shadow Pandemic : Meeting Social Needs For A City In Lockdown

Addressing patients' social needs is key to helping them heal from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), preventing the spread of the virus, and reducing its disproportionate burden on low-income communities and communities of color. New York City Health + Hospitals is the city's single largest health care provider to Medicaid and uninsured patients. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NYC Health + Hospitals staff developed and executed a strategy to meet patients' intensified social needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. NYC Health + Hospitals identified food, housing, and income support as patients' most pressing needs and built programming to quickly connect patients to these resources. Although NYC Health + Hospitals was able to build on its existing foundation of strong social work support of patients, all health systems must prioritize the social needs of patients and their families to mitigate the damage of COVID-19. National and local leaders should accelerate change by developing robust policy approaches to redesign the social and economic system that reinforces structural inequity and exacerbates crises such as COVID-19.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

Enthalten in:

Health affairs (Project Hope) - 39(2020), 9 vom: 15. Sept., Seite 1592-1596

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Clapp, Jenifer [VerfasserIn]
Calvo-Friedman, Alessandra [VerfasserIn]
Cameron, Susan [VerfasserIn]
Kramer, Natalie [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Samantha Lily [VerfasserIn]
Foote, Emily [VerfasserIn]
Lupi, Jenna [VerfasserIn]
Osuntuyi, Opeyemi [VerfasserIn]
Chokshi, Dave A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Access to care
COVID-19
Coronavirus
Food
Food and income security programs
Health policy
Housing
Journal Article
Medicaid patients
Pandemics
Patient care
Patient testing
Population health
Social determinants of health

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 24.09.2020

Date Revised 18.12.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00928

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312495153