This book provides healthcare executives with an overview of the essential elements of health equity and explains the relationship between value-based care, healthcare quality, and health equity. The book’s core themes are the crucial role of community investments in improving the economic, social, and environmental realities of marginalized populations and the need for public-private partnerships to tackle issues at scale.

Topics covered include the following:

• The health-related social needs that affect healthcare costs and outcomes and the methods to identify them
• How healthcare leaders can communicate to build community trust
• New efforts to collect reliable data on social determinants of health and build a health analytics infrastructure to benchmark, monitor, and track progress toward health equity
• How to develop a business case for health equity programs by defining strategic goals, prioritizing interventions, and aligning hospital and community leaders

Many new rules, regulations, standards, and measures focusing on health equity are now in place. Mandates and accreditation requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Joint Commission, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and the Public Health Accreditation Board are woven throughout the chapters.

Socially Determined is a vital guidebook for healthcare leaders who want to turn their health equity goals into organizational priorities.