A paper recently published in the Noth Carolina Medical Journal examines North Carolina’s health-related social needs (HRSN) landscape and draws implications for provider, health system, and state leadership looking to expand and align disparate health policy-led efforts to address HRSNs. In this paper, Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy identifies the archetypes of major policy authorities and programs that can and are being used to address HRSNs and the challenges that cut across them.
As many states are prioritizing a whole-person approach to care and looking at different mechanisms to fund services to address HRSNs in a changing policy landscape, learnings from North Carolina can help other states build a more effective and financially sustainable approach.
