Listen now (25 mins) | Listen Now Despite the fact social circumstances and environmental factors account for approximately 20% of an individual's health status, twice that of medical care at approximately 10%, social circumstances or social determinants of health are frequently unaddressed by health or medical care providers. This is largely because medical care providers are neither trained to provide social service supports such as housing and transportation nor compensated for doing so. As a result persons left with unmet health-related social needs suffer more disease burden leaving them to over-utilize or seek comparatively more health care services, for example ED visits, - or services that could have been avoided had their health-related social needs been initially addressed.