• Work As a Social Driver of Health: How La Casa Family Health Center Identifies Farmworkers

  • Oct 10 2022
  • Length: 25 mins
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Work As a Social Driver of Health: How La Casa Family Health Center Identifies Farmworkers

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  • The pandemic made our nation aware of the importance of the people who raise, pick, and process our food. We now understand that farmworkers, as well as grocery store cashiers and shelf stockers can be counted among our country’s Essential Workers. However, it’s not always clear to the Community Health Center care team what a patient’s occupation is. Occupation is one of the most important social drivers of health, affecting patients’ health and access to healthcare in many different ways. This episode of Health Centers on the Front Lines takes us behind the scenes at a health center and their partner network as they change the culture around disclosure of occupation among patients. Our guests talk about what it takes to collect data about a patient’s occupation and why it improves care when the care team knows what work their patients do.


    Featured in the Episode

    Katherine Chung-Bridges, MD
    Director of Research at Health Choice Network
    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-chung-bridges-8a0127170/

    Daniel Parras
    Research Data Scientist
    Health Choice Network
    Website: https://www.hcnetwork.org/

    Yvonne Armijo
    Director of Operations/Information System Analyst
    La Casa Family Health Center
    Website: https://www.lacasahealth.com/

    Giddel Thom, MD
    Chief Medical Director
    La Casa Family Health Center
    Website: https://www.lacasahealth.com/

    Chapters
    00:00 Introduction
    01:56 The story of dairy farm workers
    07:49 What is occupational data and how does it affect health care?
    10:18 The difficulty of collecting these data
    12:19 The challenge of integrating occupational data into the E-health records
    15:44 The importance of occupation in health and in socioeconomics
    20:00 Reactions when meeting new patients having to know their past medical records
    24:03 Takeaways from our guests

    Produced by Heartcast Media
    https://www.heartcastmedia.com/
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