{"id":7774,"date":"2023-08-27T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2023-08-31T17:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T21:21:05","slug":"sdoh-and-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/sdoh-and-ot\/","title":{"rendered":"SDoH and OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Healthy-People-2030-SDOH-Graphic-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Healthy-People-2030-SDOH-Graphic-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Healthy-People-2030-SDOH-Graphic-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Healthy-People-2030-SDOH-Graphic-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Healthy-People-2030-SDOH-Graphic-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Healthy-People-2030-SDOH-Graphic-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Healthy-People-2030-SDOH-Graphic.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Social Determinates of Health (SDoH) focuses conversations about improving patient health and wellbeing outward.   Where people live, who they live with, what they do for a living, and how they live can have a larger impact on their health than any medical intervention.<\/p>\n<p>So where is occupational therapy in this conversation?<\/p>\n<p>Hasn\u2019t OT always focused on improving a patient\u2019s access to and navigation of the five domains included in the SDoH?<\/p>\n<p>I think the answer to that is a resounding YES!  OT\u2019s holistic approach, skilled assessment of patient strengths and barriers, and clinical expertise at creating patient-centered pathways to patient-identified goals should put occupational therapy in the center of this effort.<\/p>\n<p>So what are some of the contributions OT makes to support patients in each of the five domains?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Domain 1: Economic Stability<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Money management skills<\/li>\n<li>Food prep skills<\/li>\n<li>Addressing barriers to work<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Pain management<\/li>\n<li>Management of behavioral health <\/li>\n<li>Adaptations to transportation, communication and work tasks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Domain 2: Education Access and Quality<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>School based OT and pediatric OT<\/li>\n<li>Improving digital literacy<\/li>\n<li>Goal setting and action plans<\/li>\n<li>Outdoor access and play<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Domain 3: Health Care Access and Quality<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Independence with ADLs<\/li>\n<li>Health literacy tools<\/li>\n<li>Medication management tools and strategies<\/li>\n<li>OT\u2019s role across settings:  primary care, oncology, emergency rooms,  acute care, assisted care facilities, outpatient clinics, schools, and behavioral health settings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Domain 4: Neighborhood and Built Environment<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Home Health OT<\/li>\n<li>Falls prevention<\/li>\n<li>IADLs: transportation and communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Adaptations to the environment or tasks <\/li>\n<li>Vision interventions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Domain 5: Social and Community Context<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Community mobility and transportation<\/li>\n<li>Pet and service animal care and management<\/li>\n<li>Caregiver support  and respite<\/li>\n<li>Support of vulnerable populations \u2013 foster care kids, homeless or persons with cognitive barriers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How are you supporting your OT patients in the 5 SDoH domains?  Let me know!  I\u2019m sure there are dozens of examples that I missed!<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more?  Visit U. S. Department of Health and Human Services <a href=\"https:\/\/health.gov\/healthypeople\/priority-areas\/social-determinants-health\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy People 2030<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Determinates of Health (SDoH) focuses conversations about improving patient health and wellbeing outward. Where people live, who they live with, what they do for a living, and how they live can have a larger impact on their health than any medical intervention. So where is occupational therapy in this&#8230;<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/sdoh-and-ot\/\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#DC0201\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-love-ot","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Healthy-People-2030-SDOH-Graphic.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7780,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions\/7780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}