Social determinants of health (SDOH) are conditions of environment—where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age—that affect a wide range of health, functioning and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.

This session will highlight the development of a Health Care Equity Index (HCEI), a tool to help identify opportunities within a health plan, monitor progress towards closure of disparities and help communities and the state meet Health Care Equity goals.

This course defines the future role of the community health worker in bridging the health equity gap in the clinical setting.

This course shares how a health provider prioritized a subset of quality measures targeted at high-risk patients.

This course includes highlights from the recently developed NCQA guide on social determinants of health plans.

This course examines structured models for advancing community-based programs in population health.

Health Care quality cannot exist without equity. NCQA is committed to building, measuring and promoting equity through all our programs.

NCQA’s Health Equity Accreditation is a new program that gives health care organizations an actionable framework for creating the structures and processes to begin working toward addressing health equity.