Congruence Between County Dental Health Provider Shortage Area Designations and the Social Vulnerability Index

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Provides visual comparisons of the relationship between Dental Health Provider Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2020 Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) designations on county-level U.S. maps. Includes table showing median county-level SVI score by HPSA designation, broken down by metro, nonmetro, and all county.

Gabriel A. Benavidez, Elizabeth Crouch, Joni Nelson, Amy Martin

Preventing Chronic Disease, 21

06/2024

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Health workforce shortage designations · Oral health · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data