Coordination at all levels—federal, state, and community—will be critical to realizing interoperable systems to align health and social care to improve community well-being.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) enabled millions of Americans to obtain health insurance. Yet, having an insurance card doesn’t guarantee access to care. Primary care teams play a critical role in ...

Judith L. M. McCoyd, Toba S. Kerson, Teaching Reflective Social Work Practice in Health Care: Promoting Best Practices, Journal of Social Work Education, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Fall 2013), pp. 674-688 ...

One health tech company has been facilitating those connections. True to its name, Unite Us offers a platform that connects health services to social care.

Unite Us’ mission is to connect health and social care services. Image Credit: Unite Us Health inequity is a crisis across many parts of the world. How does Unite Us strive to achieve health ...

Part II: Patients and health-care professionals alike can be well-served by a deeper understanding of natural-law principles and especially double-effect theory.

The summer after I graduated from high school, I worked in a day care center, watching over children from 18 months to 5 years old. Not yet responsible for my own expenses, I felt lucky to have a ...

A merican health care is broken. And American health care systems must transform radically to lead the repair. Let’s first look at the data: The U.S. now spends more than $4 trillion a year on ...

Majorities of Americans see a role for government on several safety net issues. 65% say the government has a responsibility to ensure all Americans have health care coverage. 55% say government aid to ...

A review of studies involving physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals found that health care providers’ implicit racial bias is associated with diagnostic uncertainty and, for Black ...