OCTOBER 2017
AccessHealth Spartanburg:
Social Determinants Screening Tool
1. Do you have health insurance?
Yes No
2. Have you applied for health insurance through the Marketplace?
Yes No
3. What is the last grade you completed in school?
4. If you have a college degree, what in?
5. How would you rate your ability to read?
Good Average Poor
6. How often do you need to have someone help you when you read instructions, pamphlets, or other written materials?
Always Sometimes Never
7. Are you currently employed?
Yes No
8. Have you ever served in the military? If yes, how were you discharged?
Yes No
8a. If yes, have you applied for VA Benefits?
Yes No
9. What are your current living arrangements?
10. How many are living in your household?
11. What is the combined monthly income of everyone living in your household?
12. Have you applied for or do you receive food stamps (SNAP) benefits?
Yes No
ABOUT THIS SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH ASSESSMENT TOOL
This resource is a companion to the Center for Health Care Strategies’ brief, Screening for Social Determinants of
Health in Populations with Complex Needs: Implementation Considerations. The brief examines how organizations
participating in Transforming Complex Care (TCC), a multi-site national initiative funded by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, are assessing and addressing social determinants of health for populations with complex
needs. To download the brief and view additional assessment tools, visit www.chcs.org/sdoh-screening/.
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13. Have you applied for: If yes, what is the status of your application?
Social Security Disability SSI Unemployment
14. How do you currently go to appointments/errands?
15. Do you eat a balanced diet?
Yes No
16. Do you exercise? If yes, what type and how often?
Yes No
17. Do you currently have a medical home? If yes, where?
Yes No
18. What medical problems have you been diagnosed with?
19. What is your plan for managing your condition?
20. Do you have allergies? If yes, please list.
Yes No
21. In the past 12 months, have you had any of the following?
Mammogram Pap Test Prostate Exam
Colonoscopy Flu Shot Pneumonia Shot
22. Do you practice safe sex?
Yes No
23. Are you currently taking any prescribed or over the counter prescriptions? If yes, please list.
Yes No
24. Do you have any issues affording your medications?
Yes No
25. Have you been connected to Welvista?
Yes No
26. Have you recently been hospitalized or had surgery? If yes, please list.
Yes No
26a. If yes, did you receive follow-up care?
Yes No
27. When was the last time you visited the emergency room and how often are the visits?
28. When was the last time you saw a dentist?
29. Do you have dental problems now?
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30. When was the last time you saw an eye doctor?
31. Do you have any vision problems now?
32. Have you ever been treated for a mental health disorder? If yes, when were you treated and at what facility?
Yes No
33. Do you smoke or use chewing tobacco? How much?
Yes No
34. Do you use alcohol? How much?
Yes No
35. Do you use recreational drugs? What and how much?
Yes No
36. Have you ever been treated for substance abuse? If yes, when were you treated and at what facility?
Yes No
37. Are you a member of a church or spiritual community?
Yes No
38. Do you have a friend or family member who can help you through difficult times?
Yes No
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