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Sounds like the approach taken in every other country that has a national health service.

• mschuster91 9y ago
  No, this one here is way, way more extensive. No country I know of directly connects e.g. hospitals and food banks or homeless shelters like here.
  • stu2010 9y ago
    Some hospitals are even going further than this: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/29/482994000/a-hospital-offers-frequent-er-patients-an-out-free-housing https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/29/4829940... It's cheaper to just pay for a patient's apartment rent than keep treating disease caused by exposure.
  • calvano915 9y ago
    I took a training and became certified as a Community Health Worker, which is who you would put in place between the hospital, community resources, and the person needing them. Hospitals are slowly learning to partner with agencies with CHWs or hire their own, because resolving the causes of health problems due to the imperfections of society/economy/etc is indeed more efficient and cheaper in the long run than repetitively treating the symptoms. I was passionate during the training, but can't see myself actually settling for the typical $30k salary. Given this reality, most CHWs do it because of passion and have other roles/duties that increase their salary to something actually liveable.