Week 5 Discussion 2

” Responding to Social Health Needs “ Please respond to the following:

• Identify at least 2 ways the law has been used to respond to health-harming social needs in health communities. Do you feel the response was effective? What changes would you recommend as a healthcare regulator? Justify your rationale.

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The environment of the patient often determines the health of a patient. Health-harming social needs include poor housing, unbalanced diet resulting from food insecurity and an unsafe water storage system among others (Daniels, 2007). The law has been used in American society to deal with these needs through embracing an emergency framework characterized by the provision of affordable care through the Affordable Care Act. Health harming social needs give rise to different illnesses. Affording patients the opportunity to quality access care allows them to get treatment for the illnesses resulting from health-harming social needs. More so, the law has been used to deal with these…