Pain affects everyone, but not everyone can get the care that they need to overcome it. Persistent disparities prevent many people from receiving quality treatment and achieving optimal health. It’s estimated that 80% to 90% of health outcomes are dictated by social determinants of health, including employment status, education, housing, transportation, dietary habits and more.
The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated many of these issues. At Sword Health, we want to change this reality—for good.
We’re on a mission to free 2 billion people from pain. We’re doing so with the keen awareness that particular populations, including racial and ethnic minorities, less privileged socioeconomic communities, and underserved rural populations, face entrenched barriers to care and experience worse health outcomes because of it.
Since the beginning, we have developed our digital health program with the goal of bringing lasting pain relief to as many people as possible—regardless of their background, where they live, or how much they earn.
Everyone deserves relief from pain, and Sword’s virtual physical care program was designed to drive this universal aim addressing people in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, UK, Australia and Portugal. Here are four key ways that we are actively dismantling disparities in healthcare.