Elevance Health | Advancing Health Beyond Healthcare (original) (raw)

Health grows from social connections, nutritious food to eat, and a place to call home. It’s also influenced by traditional medical considerations like your age, the ZIP code where you live, and preventive care such as flu vaccinations. When we consider all these factors, we get closer to measuring whole health.

In pursuit of Elevance Health’s purpose to improve the health of humanity, we built the Whole Health Index (WHI), which has the potential to change healthcare for the better. The WHI provides a scientifically valid way to measure the most significant drivers of health (including the social drivers), provides the ability to evaluate whether the actions taken to improve health are working, and represents a way for communities and the healthcare system to work more closely together to advance health equity.