Drabo Emmanuel Fulgence, Eckel Grace, Ross Samuel L, Brozic Michael, Carlton Chanie G, Warren Tatiana Y, Kleb George, Laird Aurelia, Pollack Porter Keshia M, Pollack Craig Evan
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Grace Eckel is a senior budget and policy analyst for the Governor's Office, in Denver, Colorado. At the time this work was conducted, she was a master of public health student in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 Mar;40(3):513-520. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00998.
Community health programs aimed at addressing the social determinants of health often face challenges demonstrating their impact through traditional economic evaluation methods of return-on-investment analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, or cost-benefit analysis. Using a social-return-on-investment (SROI) analysis, we evaluated the broader social, environmental, and economic benefits of Bon Secours Hospital's Housing for Health program, an affordable housing program aimed at addressing the social and environmental determinants affecting its community's health in Baltimore, Maryland. Bon Secours currently has 801 units of affordable housing across twelve properties in West Baltimore. Results indicate the significant social value of the Bon Secours affordable housing program, generating between $1.30 and $1.92 of social return in the community for every dollar in yearly operating costs. These findings suggest that broader access to affordable housing could produce a positive social value and demonstrate the relevance of SROI for quantifying the impacts of community health programs.
旨在解决健康的社会决定因素的社区卫生项目，往往难以通过传统的经济评估方法（如投资回报率分析、成本效益分析或成本效益分析）来证明其影响。我们采用社会投资回报率（SROI）分析方法，评估了博纳·塞库尔医院的“健康住房”项目所带来的更广泛的社会、环境和经济效益。该项目是一项经济适用房项目，旨在解决影响马里兰州巴尔的摩市社区健康的社会和环境决定因素。博纳·塞库尔目前在西巴尔的摩的12处房产中拥有801套经济适用房。结果表明，博纳·塞库尔经济适用房项目具有重大的社会价值，每年运营成本每投入1美元，就能在社区产生1.30至1.92美元的社会回报。这些发现表明，更广泛地提供经济适用房能够产生积极的社会价值，并证明了SROI在量化社区卫生项目影响方面的相关性。
