Targeting Health Equity at the Neighborhood-Level

A person’s living environment is an important social determinant of health (SODH), affecting access to care and employment, exposure to environmental hazards, and financial pressures. As a result, health equity efforts need to zoom down to the neighborhood level to improve health outcomes. In a new Health Affairs article, learn more about addressing health equity efforts by analyzing SODH from a neighborhood-focused perspective.

According to the authors, “At the center of this work is the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), a measure originally developed in 2003 and later adapted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ADI is a composite of 17 census-based variables, including income, employment, and education, as well as measures of housing quality and access to transportation. ADI is available at both state and national levels at the unit of census block group—each of which contains between 600 and 3,000 individuals and is the smallest geographic unit for which the Census Bureau tabulates data.”

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(Source: Health Affairs, June 2^nd, 2023)