Work As a Social Driver of Health: How La Casa Family Health Center Identifies Farmworkers

Описание: The pandemic made our nation aware of the importance of the people who raise, pick, and process our food. We now understand that farmworkers, as well as grocery store cashiers and shelf stockers can be counted among our country’s Essential Workers. However, it’s not always clear to the Community Health Center care team what a patient’s occupation is. Occupation is one of the most important social drivers of health, affecting patients’ health and access to healthcare in many different ways. This episode of Health Centers on the Front Lines takes us behind the scenes at a health center and their partner network as they change the culture around disclosure of occupation among patients. Our guests talk about what it takes to collect data about a patient’s occupation and why it improves care when the care team knows what work their patients do.

Key Takeaways:

How important occupational data is and how does it affect health care?
The challenges regarding occupational data from gathering information to integrating it into the existing EMR of our healthcare system
The advantages of having occupational data for new patients

Quotes:

"This occupational data helps our staff at the health centers to understand better who these patients are." - Dr. Katherine

"Aside from just the data collection, it is important to educate the providers and the staff on the importance of occupational health data." - Daniel

"Occupation is arguably one of the most important social drivers of health because it can impact so many of the other downstream factors." - Dr. Katherine

"The collection of occupational data allows for objective assessment of associations between occupational categories and health outcomes." - Dr. Katherine

Featured in the Episode:

Alexandra Walker
Director of Digital Communications,
National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
Linkedin:   / alexandra-walker-25b5844  
Company Website: Nachc.org

Katherine Chung-Bridges
Director of Research at Health Choice Network
Linkedin:   / katherine-chung-bridges-8a0127170  

Daniel Parras
Data Analyst
Health Choice Network
Website: https://www.hcnetwork.org/

Yvonne Armijo
Director of Operations/Information System Analyst
La Casa Family Health Center
Website: https://www.lacasahealth.com/

Giddel Thom, MD
Chief Medical Director
La Casa Family Health Center
Website: https://www.lacasahealth.com/

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
01:56 The story of dairy farm workers
07:49 What is occupational data and how does it affect health care?
10:18 The difficulty of collecting these data
12:19 The challenge of integrating occupational data into the E-health records
15:44 The importance of occupation in health and in socioeconomics
20:00 Reactions when meeting new patients having to know their past medical records
24:03 Takeaways from our guests

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