Health centres and social determinants of health: an analysis of enabling services provision and clinical quality

被引:1
作者
Topmiller, Michael [1 ]
McCann, Jessica [1 ]
Hoang, Hank [2 ]
Rankin, Jennifer [1 ]
Grandmont, Jene [1 ]
Pelzer, Molly [2 ]
Sripipatana, Alek [2 ]
机构
[1] Amer Acad Family Phys, HealthLandscape, Leawood, KS 66211 USA
[2] US Dept HHS, Hlth Resources & Serv Adm, Bur Primary Hlth Care, Rockville, MD USA
关键词
social determinants of health; health equity; healthcare disparities; quality indicators; health care; community health centers; PRIMARY-CARE; PUBLIC-HEALTH; COMMUNITIES;
D O I
10.1136/fmch-2023-002227
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
ObjectiveIt is well known that social determinants of health (SDOH), including poverty, education, transportation and housing, are important predictors of health outcomes. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded health centres serve a patient population with high vulnerability to barriers posed by SDOH and are required to provide services that enable health centre service utilisation and assist patients in navigating barriers to care. This study explores whether health centres with higher percentages of patients using these enabling services experience better clinical performance and outcomes.Design and settingThe analysis uses organisational characteristics, patient demographics and clinical quality measures from HRSA's 2018 Uniform Data System. Health centres (n=875) were sorted into quartiles with quartile 1 (Q1) representing the lowest utilisation of enabling services and quartile 4 (Q4) representing the highest. The researchers calculated a service area social deprivation score weighted by the number of patients for each health centre and used ordinary least squares to create adjusted values for each of the clinical quality process and outcome measures. Analysis of variance was used to test differences across enabling services quartiles.ResultsAfter adjusting for patient characteristics, health centre size and social deprivation, authors found statistically significant differences for all clinical quality process measures across enabling services quartiles, with Q4 health centres performing significantly better than Q1 health centres for several clinical process measures. However, these Q4 health centres performed poorer in outcome measures, including blood pressure and haemoglobin A1c control.ConclusionThese findings emphasise the importance of how enabling services (eg, translation services, transportation) can address unmet social needs, improve utilisation of health services and reaffirm the challenges inherent in overcoming SDOH to improve health outcomes.
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