Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest integrated health delivery organization, launched its Total Health initiative in 2014 to promote healthy eating and active living among our members. We have now begun to bolster that effort by aiming to target our members’ unmet social needs as part of their overall health care. After all, social, environmental, and behavioral factors account for an estimated 60% of health, compared with just 10% from factors traditionally defined as “clinical.” And research shows that nations that focus on food insecurity, housing, transportation, and other “nonmedical” factors spend less overall on health care while improving quality and quantity of life.
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