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Winnie C. Chi, PhD, MS, J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, Todd Sponholtz, PhD, MPH, Binh T. Nguyen, PhD, Peter Brady, MBA, April Falconi, PhD, MPH, MA, Martha Johnson, PhD, Amanda Price, MPH, Cory Silver, MPH, Kevin Bowman, MD, MPH, MBA, Samuel Simon, PhD, MA, Dmitriy Poznyak, PhD, Anita Somplasky, RN CHTS-CP, CHTS-PW, and Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil-6

A Practical, Valid, and Reliable Tool to Measure Whole-Person Health and Manage Population Health

The index incorporates both patient-level and population-level data from 93 measures that are representative of social, physical, and behavioral factors of health to measure whole-person health.

Summary

The Whole Health Index, developed by Elevance Health, is intended to serve its members but also to serve as a tool for others. The index combines multiple data sources and measure types, including publicly available and individual-level clinical and social data, claims data, and process and outcome measures designed to establish a valid and reliable measure of whole-person health that is useful not only for measuring and tracking health, but also for guiding actions to improve health...

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