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Applying Lessons From Behavioral Health Integration to Social Care Integration in Primary Care
Theresa J. Hoeft, and colleagues
Background Although interest is accelerating around addressing patients’ social and economic needs, effective and sustainable strategies for integrating social care practices into health care delivery have not yet been identified.
What This Study Found This paper synthesized learnings from primary care and behavioral health care integration and translated them into organizing principles with the goal of advancing social care integration practices to improve the health of patients and communities.
Implications
- Lessons learned from over two decades of research on behavioral health integration could be applied to efforts to integrate social care into primary care.