It now is widely recognized that social factors such as unstable housing, employment instability, and lack of healthy food, have a substantial impact on health outcomes and spending, particularly for ...

As the national organization representing nearly 50,000 physicians and other health care professionals specializing in cancer treatment, diagnosis, prevention, and research, ASCO supports effective ...

Social support interventions were linked to weight loss at the end of intervention and 3- and 6-month follow-ups. Social support may have a significant effect on weight loss interventions, according ...

As the United States commemorates 50 years of mass incarceration, researchers and experts call for a comprehensive reimagining of the public safety infrastructure to prevent another 50 years of this ...

We must rethink our one-size-fits-all approach to social determinants of health interventions and instead target patients who truly need and would benefit from these interventions. The scale of the ...

Natural language processing can be used for automated extraction of social work interventions from electronic health records, thereby supporting social work staffing and resource allocation decisions.