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Using Data to Address Individual and Community Social Determinants of Health
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Through multiple collaborative improvement projects, the California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions (CIBHS) supports safety net organizations to take on these challenges. Central to this work is supporting service organizations to gather, integrate and use indicators of physical health status, mental health recovery progress, community activation, and social conditions. This includes setting up systems to track these indicators over time and to incorporate their gathering and use into service delivery workflows (both individual interactions and caseload/census management).
This session explores the fundamental changes that facilitate use of this expanded data set into both care processes and system management. Changes include: identifying the expanded data set (including recovery indicators and social determinants); adopting data collection and tracking capacity; formatting data for use in care processes; altering care processes to integrate data gathering and use; and, using data to identify population-based opportunities to address social determinants. Learning from CIBHS improvement projects indicate that these changes will only lead to improved health outcomes if senior leadership, middle management, and front-line staff are equally engaged in the development and use of the expanded data set.
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsAssessment of individual and community needs for health education
Chronic disease management and prevention
Diversity and culture
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Provision of health care to the public
Learning Objectives:
Identify at least 4 data elements that help service providers to address social determinants of health.
Describe how to incorporate data gathering and data use into the care process to increase the effectiveness of services.
Discuss how an expanded data set (that includes social determinants) enables robust population health and prevention activities.
Keyword(s): Underserved Populations, Community-Based Partnership & Collaboration
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Karin serves as Director and Improvement Advisor for multiple collaborative improvement projects convened by the California Institute for Behavioral Health Services (CiBHS) to improve health outcomes of individuals with serious mental illness. She also provides consultation to several California counties on system redesign for both county-operated and contracted community clinics. Services include project management, quality/process improvement, and service system design/redesign to improve individual and system outcomes for vulnerable populations.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.