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It highlights disproportionate impacts on children, describing links between low-income households and developmental delays, chronic illness, and mental health challenges. While healthcare systems increasingly screen social needs, the ability to deliver effective “treatment” lags behind. The paper presents medical-financial partnerships (MFPs) as a clinic-based strategy to connect patients with financial services, improving both health and economic security together.","Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk  \n\n| Volume 14\u003Cbr>Issue 2 Social Determinants of Health | Article 2 |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2023\u003Cbr>Addressing Economic Drivers of Health in the Clinic: The Role and Potential of Medical-Financial Partnerships\u003Cbr>Geoffrey Gusoff\u003Cbr>National Clinician Scholars Program at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, [ggusoff@mednet.ucla.edu](ggusoff@mednet.ucla.edu)\u003Cbr>Adam Schickedanz\u003Cbr>Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, [aschickedanz@mednet.ucla.edu](aschickedanz@mednet.ucla.edu)\u003Cbr>Follow this and additional works at: [https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk](https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk) |  |\n\nRecommended Citation  \nGusoff, Geoffrey and Schickedanz, Adam (2023) \"Addressing Economic Drivers of Health in the Clinic: The Role and Potential of Medical-Financial Partnerships,\" Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk: Vol. 14: Iss. 2, Article 2.  \nDOI: [https://doi.org/10.58464/2155-5834.1524](https://doi.org/10.58464/2155-5834.1524)  \nAvailable at: [https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk/vol14/iss2/2](https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk/vol14/iss2/2)  \nThe Journal of Applied Research on Children is brought to you for free and open access by CHILDREN AT RISK at DigitalCommons@The Texas Medical Center. It has a \"cc by-nc-nd\" Creative Commons license\" (Attribution NonCommercial No Derivatives) For more information, please [contact](contact digitalcommons@exch.library.tmc.edu)[ digitalcommons@exch.library.tmc.edu](contact digitalcommons@exch.library.tmc.edu)  \nAddressing Economic Drivers of Health in the Clinic: The Role and Potential of Medical-Financial Partnerships  \nAcknowledgements  \nThe authors would like to thank the Medical-Financial Partnership staff, partners, and participants whose insights, experience, and pioneering efforts have informed our understanding of the role and potential of MFPs. Dr. Gusoff reports support from the UCLA CTSI (TL1TR001883) and the UCLA Department of Family Medicine via the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Schickedanz was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD K23099308) and the Health Resources and Services Administration Life Course Intervention Research Network (UA6MC32492) .  \nThis article is available in Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk:  \n[https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk/vol14/iss2/2](https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk/vol14/iss2/2)  \nBackground  \nIn his 2015 book The Health Gap, Michael Marmot cites social policy professor David Gordon’s “top tips for health.”1 Rather than offering traditional health advice focusing on behaviors like “eat healthy ,” Gordon’swry tips emphasize social factors largely out of patients’ control that strongly  \ninfluence health.2 His first recommendation is blunt: “Don’t be poor.”  \nAn abundance of evidence identifies economic conditions generally, and poverty and financial insecurity specifically, as major drivers of health outcomes. 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