Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), a group of factors that includes housing, income, employment, and education, are often the reason for variations in health outcomes and rates of hospitalization. Although SDoH screening during medical visits has been adopted by many health systems, medical education has continued to focus on the identification and treatment of disease […]
One of the most effective ways to improve social work research is to share the unexpected lessons we learn along the way with the greater research community. A recent paper published in the American Journal of Public Health about the Helping to End Addiction Long-Term Communities Study (HEALing Communities Study or HCS) provides an overview […]
BU School of Social Work Professor Ruth Paris will co-host a Research on Tap event with BU Wheelock Prof. Dina Castro, “Improving Early Childhood Well-Being,” in her role as associate director for Research at the BU Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being. “A socially and economically healthy society depends on that society’s investment in developing healthy […]
In a recent interview for “Social Work Talks,” the National Association for Social Workers’s podcast, Kristina Whiton-O’Brien (SSW’95) discussed the tools that Vot-ER is providing to social workers and health care providers to promote better civic health. Whiton-O’Brien is a BU School of Social Work alumna, and former assistant director of online advising and field […]
