[Verified Answer]: Social Determinants of health (SDOH) refer…

Social Determinants of health (SDOH) refer to the well-being and conditions of a persons life that have an influence on a patients health. Examples of SDOHs could relate to if the patient has healthcare insurance, how much medications they are able to afford, and their current living situation. Population health managers can analyze data of patients with SDOHs in a particular community, care setting, or chronic diseases. Chenyu et.al. (2024) note that a patients healthcare outcome is influenced by their clinical care by only 20% with the remaining 80% mixed with SDOHs and other external factors. Population health managers can utilize the SDOH data retrieved from patient surveys, EHRs, or clinician reported data, to bring the best and most optimal care to patients given any number of SDOH parameters with the goal being a healthier patient population. SDOH data would be able to help in identifying a recent infectious disease outbreak by using the data to note where those with the infectious are living, the age of each of the patient with that infectious disease and obtaining other pertinent data to identify educational and income levels within a population. The population health manager would then be able to determine if more education about the spread of this infectious disease would be beneficial for the community and how to best delivery the education, if needed, to help decrease the spread of the disease.