Revising the Logic Model Behind Health Care's Social Care Investments

Laura M Gottlieb; Danielle Hessler; Holly Wing; Alejandra Gonzalez-Rocha; Yuri Cartier; Caroline Fichtenberg

doi:10.1111/1468-0009.12690

Revising the Logic Model Behind Health Care's Social Care Investments

Milbank Q. 2024 Jan 25. doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.12690. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Laura M Gottlieb^{1

2}, Danielle Hessler^{1

2}, Holly Wing², Alejandra Gonzalez-Rocha², Yuri Cartier², Caroline Fichtenberg^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ University of California, San Francisco.
² Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network, Center for Health and Community, University of California, San Francisco.

PMID: 38273221
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12690

Abstract

Policy Points This article summarizes recent evidence on how increased awareness of patients' social conditions in the health care sector may influence health and health care utilization outcomes. Using this evidence, we propose a more expansive logic model to explain the impacts of social care programs and inform future social care program investments and evaluations.

Keywords: framework; logic model; social care; social determinants of health.