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

Description
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.
Author(s)
Gabriel A. Benavidez, Elizabeth Crouch, Joni Nelson, Amy Martin
Citation
Preventing Chronic Disease, 21
Date
06/2024
Tagged as
Health workforce shortage designations · Oral health · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data