September 18, 2024

The Center's work by doctoral student Emily Brown Weida was referenced in an article looking at how healthcare providers can have a positive impact on social determinant of health (SDoH) through considering financially healthy practices.

“'Financial health' is a comprehensive assessment of resources that includes the ability to meet basic needs and encompasses opportunities to save and build wealth, according to the Drexel University Center for Hunger-Free Communities. Financial health is in itself an SDoH that is directly related to housing, food, and energy insecurity, andhas been identified as a root cause of these economic hardships."   

"Though providers often lack the resources to solve patients’ SDoH on their own, they can adopt the following tools that make it easier for these patients to pay their medical bills, which may at least lessen some of the burdens associated with SDoH."

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