Utilizing PHATE: A Population Health–Mapping Tool to Identify Areas of Food Insecurity

Family physicians have long recognized the importance of the social determinants of health, like adequate access to food, on a patient’s health status. Many physicians, however, lack the tools needed to effectively address them.1 At our health center we used a new population health-mapping tool to identify the geographic distribution of patients who screened positive for food insecurity.

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