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from David M. Lawrence, former chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals:

Focus on food insecurity and slum housing, they said. And create a patient-centered medical home to deal with people’s medical and social issues.

first began to understand health as a social phenomenon that starts and ends outside the clinic walls.

For those interested, a more comprehensive list of policy solutions and opportunities to advance an upstreamist approach can be found at healthbegins.org

When clinicians don’t reflect the communities they serve, it becomes that much more difficult to understand health in its social context.

In our shared imagination, the concept of health has been shaped by this downstream activity, where doctors and nurses discover and treat disease.