Health IT Analytics September 2, 2020
Using social determinants of health data, the Community Well-Being Index ranked Hawaii and New Hampshire among the top states for health and wellness.
Boston University School of Public Health (SPH) and Sharecare have released their Community Well-Being Index (CWBI) state rankings report, which leverages social determinants of health data to measure community wellness.
For over ten years, Sharecare has measured community well-being by assessing both physical and non-physical individual risk factors across five health domains: purpose, social, financial, community, and physical.
The CWBI combines this original index with social determinants of health data to measure additional risk factors across five domains related to one’s environment: healthcare access, food access, resource access, housing and transportation, and economic security.
“By leveraging sophisticated...