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Influence of social determinants of health and emotional health factors on female sexual health [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Clinical factors included age, BMI, depression (PHQ-9 score), anxiety (GAD-7 score), alcohol use (AUDIT score) and social determinants like transportation, food insecurity and housing stability. However, SDOH variables such as marital status, education level, transportation and housing did not show significant impact.

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Integrated care for adults with complex needs: opportunities of case management in primary care to improve equity [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Social workers who collaborated in dyad with nurse case managers helped in identifying patients’ mental health issues as well as unmet social needs, e.g. poor-quality housing, social isolation, and difficulty affording transportation, or food.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Jessie: And I mean, this is not what we’re seeing in terms of take a substance use disorder history is… Whatever our backgrounds, internists, family medicine, whatever our background brought us to hospice and palliative medicine, this is med school level substance use disorder history. Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.