(ShelterForce) Provider, Payer, Patient—Breaking Down the Health Sector

Who are the players in the health sector, and what are their incentives to address social determinants of health?

Helping Community Developers Understand the Health Sector Housing is health care. That statement is clearer now than ever before. But as we’ve found in our coverage of health and community development over the past couple years, knowing that partnering with the health sector is a good idea and understanding how to do it are two different things. Over the next several weeks, we’ll talk about some of the parts that often don’t get said—Who are the players in the health sector, and what are their incentives to address social determinants of health? What is the difference between public health and medical care? How do partnerships get started? We hope these articles will give community development practitioners the context and the confidence to forge new and better partnerships with their health sector counterparts. The U.S. Health Care System: Players and Incentives Debra Gordon, Shelterforce As the health sector shifts from a disease model to a health model, various players gain new incentives to pay attention to partnerships around the social determinants of health. Who are they? Read More Forming Partnerships with Public Health Departments, Part I: Why It's a Good Idea Logan Rockefeller Harris, Megan Gaydos, and Solange Gould, North Carolina Justice Center and Human Impact Partners What public health practitioners do and why community partners are essential to their goal of health equity. Read More A Quick Look at the U.S. Health Care Sector Carol Coogan, Shelterforce An illustration that breaks down the payers, plans, and providers, and public health systems involved in the health care sector. Read More CEO/Publisher, Schlonn Hawkins CEO/Editor-in-Chief, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Associate Editor, Brandon Duong Assistant Editor, Elizabeth Oguss Operations Manager, Sam Fields This series was made possible thanks to the generous support of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ● The Kresge Foundation  ● Kaiser Permanente Our work is also supported by:  Bank of America Foundation ● Citi Community Development ● The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation ● JPMorgan Chase Foundation ●  NeighborWorks America ● PNC Bank Foundation ● Truist Bank ● Oak Foundation ● Valley National Bank ● Wells Fargo ... and with the support of readers like you.