Building Healthier Communities
End-to-End Data Analytics Can Foster Health and Well-Being for All
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Key Findings
Unlocking important insights through analytics requires a comprehensive approach that prioritizes equity, transparency, and inclusivity. By providing funding and incentives to systems, proactively mitigating biases, promoting inclusion, and partnering strategically, we can collectively address social determinants of health and foster holistic well-being. Potential policy and practice approaches include the following:
- Increase funding for and connections between independent practitioners and community-based organizations (CBOs).
- Prioritize patient voices in data-sharing initiatives.
- Provide incentives for CBOs to participate in data-sharing initiatives with health outcomes data, funding, and opportunities for co-creation.
- Eliminate risk in the data journey through end-to-end analytics.
Social determinants of health and well-being are shaped by structural factors, including policies and practices that lead to the intentional or unintentional exclusion of specific populations. Structurally rooted inequities in the distribution of social determinants of health contribute to persistent inequities in people’s health and well-being, by race, ethnicity, citizenship status, disability status, primary language, sexual orientation and gender identity, and other social identities and demographic characteristics. Addressing these inequities requires an approach that is multilevel, holistic, and coordinated across sectors. At Mathematica, we partner with our clients to identify solutions to problems no matter where they fall on the continuum of challenges, from structural determinants to the quality and use of health services.
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