5 SDOH Strategies

Adjustment focuses on activities that change clinical care to deal with social barriers.

Assistance includes activities that reduce social risk by giving people information and connecting them with social care resources.

Advocacy involves health care organizations working with social care groups to promote policies that create and deploy assets or resources to address health and social needs.

Alignment involves health care systems working to understand, organize, invest in, and deploy existing community social care assets to improve health outcomes.

Awareness activities focus on finding and communicating your patients’ social risks and assets. These essential activities help you figure out the what, why, where, how, and when of SDOH in the community you serve.