December 2019

New Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health Page on Provider Website

Throughout 2019, you’ve read multiple CMO Perspectives on health equity (HE) and social determinants of health (SDoH), including:

Let’s Work Together in 2019 to Help Reduce Health Care Disparities
Health Equity: Bold Strategies, Unique Solutions
BCBSIL Hosts Its Inaugural Physician Diversity Summit
Addressing the Maternal and Infant Health Crisis Through A Health Equity Lens
Housing as a Health Strategy: Removing Barriers to Improved Health Outcomes

In our continuous effort to partner with you and help improve member and community health outcomes, we’ve created a page on the Provider website to centralize resources and tools to help you learn more about HE and SDoH and to be engaged.

The new HE and SDoH page includes three sections:

What You Can Do Now
What BCBSIL is Doing to Address Health Equity and SDoH
Reference Library

We encourage you to check this page often as strategies for achieving health equity continue to gain momentum. And, we’ll be seeking your input to make sure the content is useful and relevant, so we can add more resources based on your feedback.