By Daniel Stein, President, SOC Institute, and Co-P.I., National Interoperability Collaborative “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin The founders of Stewards of Change (including yours truly) didn’t know about that Benjamin Franklin quote when we launched our startup in 2004; intuitively, however, […]
Month: October 2018
Knowledge from the North: Research in Canada Underscores the Importance of the Social Determinants to Improve Population Health
Authors: Daniel J. Dutton, PhD, and PG Forest, PhD It may surprise some policy-makers to hear it, but the best way for government to use its financial resources to improve population health in a developed country is to spend more on social services rather than on health care. Models using data from the United States, […]