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ReviewAnnual review of public health2025

Integrating Social Needs into Health Care: An Implementation Science Perspective.

Maura Kepper, Callie Walsh-Bailey, Constance Owens-Jasey, Rose Gunn, Rachel Gold

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Review in Annual review of public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Maura KepperPrevention Research Center in St. Louis, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; email: kepperm@wustl.edu.
Callie Walsh-BaileyDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Constance Owens-JaseyOCHIN, Inc., Portland, Oregon, USA.
Rose GunnOCHIN, Inc., Portland, Oregon, USA.
Rachel GoldKaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Funding

The Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control Equity - Research ProgramP50CA244433 · NCI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI EMMONS, KAREN M. · 2019 to 2023
$12.5M
Research Design, Data, and Analytics CoreP30DK092949 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Neda Laiteerapong · 2011 to 2026
$10.0M
Washington University Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control (WU-ISCCC)P50CA244431 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BROWNSON, ROSS C, COLDITZ, GRAHAM A. · 2019 to 2023
$8.0M
Research ProgramP50CA244289 · NCI · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI DEVOE, JENNIFER E, HUGUET, NATHALIE · 2019 to 2023
$7.6M
Optimizing Implementation in Cancer Control: OPTICC - Research Program CoreP50CA244432 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LEWIS, CARA CHARISSA · 2019 to 2023
$4.6M
K01 Career Development AwardK01HL167993 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Maura Kepper · 2024 to 2026
$491k
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA244289NCI NIH HHS P50 CA244431NCI NIH HHS P50 CA244432NCI NIH HHS P50 CA244433NHLBI NIH HHS K01 HL167993NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK092949
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unmet social needs (e.g., housing instability, food insecurity, transportation barriers) impact a patient's ability to participate in health-seeking behaviors (e.g., physical activity, routine preventive care) and to achieve optimal health. A rapidly growing number of health care systems are incorporating social needs screening and assistance into clinical workflows, yet many implementation and sustainability challenges exist and require collaboration with social service organizations. This review highlights implementation approaches used within this rapidly changing US landscape and uses implementation science frameworks to systematically identify multilevel barriers to and facilitators of implementing and sustaining social needs care. Policies and economic investments are necessary as they determine critical barriers and facilitators within the clinical and social service contexts. Implementation may be further strengthened by cross-sector engagement, evidence-based implementation strategies, and capacity building within clinical and social service organizations. Successful, sustained implementation of social needs care may improve the quality of health care, population health, and health equity.

Indexed as

Delivery of Health CareHealth Services Needs and DemandImplementation ScienceSocial WorkHumansUnited Stateshealth carehealth equityimplementation sciencesocial needssustainability

Identifiers

PMID39476408
PMCPMC12171984

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