Health Outcomes & Data Measures: A Quick Guide for Health Center & Housing Partnerships

As more health centers look to establish partnerships with housing providers or even begin delivering services to residents in supportive housing , they are starting to look at which physical health outcomes to track as part of housing programs. This quick guide will help communities understand the key health conditions experienced by homeless individuals that may be positively impacted with stable housing and the data elements generally tracked within the homeless health and housing sectors. This guide is designed to increase familiarity with measures already being tracked, enabling health and housing partnerships to leverage existing data and reduce administrative burden related to developing new mechanisms to track and report data.