RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Applying Lessons From Behavioral Health Integration to Social Care Integration in Primary Care
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 356
OP 361
DO 10.1370/afm.2688
VO 19
IS 4
A1 Hoeft, Theresa J.
A1 Hessler, Danielle
A1 Francis, Damon
A1 Gottlieb, Laura M.
YR 2021
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/19/4/356.abstract
AB Interest and incentives are increasing around strategies whereby the health care sector can better identify and address patients’ social and economic needs in the context of primary care delivery. This interest is likely to accelerate during the economic recession following the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet effective and sustainable strategies for integrating social care practices (eg, patient-facing social risk screening and activities to address identified needs) have not been clearly established. Lessons learned from more than 2 decades of research on behavioral health integration could be applied to efforts to integrate social care into primary care. In this article, we synthesize learnings from primary care and behavioral health care integration, and translate them into organizing principles with the goal of advancing social care integration practices to improve the health of both patients and communities.