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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Historically, the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) has been used as a term to capture these important upstream, non-medical drivers of health. Traditional medical innovators are typically focused on the surface-level challenges related to health care delivery.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Second, Social Impact Bonds help organizations raise funds for socially oriented projects from the backing of private, public, and/or investors interested in philanthropy (Joy and Shields 2013). Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. British Medical Journal 339. Social Finance in North America.”

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. Medical data registries have set the standard. By Jason Saul. Next, a registry needs to capture data elements with specific and consistent data definitions.