The United States falls behind other industrial-ized nations on most health indicators1 and
remains plagued by stark health disparities. 2 Efforts to understand the factors underlying …

Academic health centers (AHCs) play a significant role in educating the health care
workforce, conducting innovative biomedical and clinical research, and delivering high-quality …

There is renewed interest in patient engagement in clinical and research settings, creating a
need for documenting and publishing lessons learned from efforts to meaningfully engage …

Background: Strategies to engage patients to improve and enhance research and clinical
care are increasingly being implemented in the United States, yet little is known about best …

Background: Primary care practice−based research networks (PBRNs) are critical laboratories
for generating evidence from real-world settings, including studying natural experiments. …

Background Patients with gaps in health insurance coverage often defer or forgo cancer
prevention services. These delays in cancer detection and diagnoses lead to higher rates of …

健康的社会决定因素(SDH) 指非临床上的可以影响患者健康的因素, 如社会地位, 经济状况及邻里
资源等. WHO 将其定义为人们出生, 成长, 工作, 生活, 衰老的环境, 以及广义上的塑造这些日常…

Academic medical centers (AMCs) in the United States built world-class infrastructure to
successfully combat disease in the 20th century, which is inadequate for the complexity of …

There is growing consensus that it is important to screen for social determinants of health in
primary care and generate usable, actionable data to help physicians and practices build …

Community-level factors have significant impacts on health. There is renewed enthusiasm
for integrating these data with electronic health record (EHR) data for use in primary care to …