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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #39 – A Novel Approach to Harness the Most Powerful Social Determinants of Health
Description: It’s been said that our zip codes impact our health more than our genetic codes.  How do the social determinants of health — education, employment, public transportation, safe housing and neighborhoods, access to healthy food… — so profoundly affect healthcare utilization and health outcomes?
In this interview, you’ll hear an emerging story of how the leadership of a healthcare system in New Jersey is addressing this issue head-on and going right to the root cause. My remarkable guest, Michellene Davis – a lawyer and policy expert – is the Executive Vice President & Chief Corporate Affairs Officer for RWJBarnabas Health – the largest healthc...