REPORT Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care

New Report: Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation’s Health

Read the report Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation’s Health is now available as a free PDF download. How can services that address social needs be integrated into clinical care? What kind of infrastructure will be needed to facilitate that integration? To begin answering such questions, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine assembled an expert committee to examine the potential for integrating social care services into the delivery of health care with the ultimate goal of achieving better and more equitable health outcomes. The resulting report, Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation’s Health, identifies and assesses current and emerging approaches and recommends ways to expand and optimize social care in the health care setting.   Report highlights  | Report recommendations | Key messages  Report release slides | Social media toolkit     Read the report Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation’s Health is the fourth in a series of consensus reports from the National Academy of Medicine's Culture of Health Program.