Salt Lake City health system Intermountain is to invest $12m into the Utah Alliance for the Determinants of Health, which examines the non-medical factors impacting on a person's health, such as transport, food, housing and domestic violence. The state has also launched an initiative called Healthy Utah, which will look at how people can improve their health. The projects aim to improve people's health and to reduce costs by screening patients for their needs and co-ordinating solutions for them.
Salt Lake City health system Intermountain is to invest $12m into the Utah Alliance for the Determinants of Health, which examines the non-medical factors impacting on a person's health, such as transport, food, housing and domestic violence. The funding will be split between the Ogden and St George programmes in Utah, which will receive $2m each, per year, for three years. The projects aim to improve people's health and to reduce costs by screening patients for their needs and co-ordinating solutions for them.