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Website Search Results for: social determinants of health

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911. Pre-Pandemic Geographic Access to Hospital-Based Telehealth for Cancer Care in the United States - Resources
Date: Jan 2023

Explores the availability of telehealth and oncology services across geographic and sociodemographic domains before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizes 2019 and 2020 data sources to examine hospital characteristics by telehealth and oncology services, with information on hospital ownership, number of hospital beds, Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) status, presence of Rural Health Clinic (RHC) co-located at hospital, and more. Includes availability of telehealth, oncology, and hospital services broken down by county; HPSA status; income, average age, and race/ethnicity of residents; ratio of population to primary care physicians; rural noncore, rural micropolitan, or urban status; and more.

...Health workforce supply and demand · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Specialty care · Telehealth...

912. Leveraging Evidence-Based Policies to Improve Health, Control Costs, and Create Health Equity - Resources
Date: Jul 2021

Explores health inequities and healthcare access in marginalized populations, including racial and ethnic minority groups, sexual and gender minorities, people living in poverty and in rural communities, and people formerly incarcerated. Discusses strategies and policies to reduce inequities focused on access to healthcare, economic mobility, affordable housing, safe learning environments for young adults and children, and health-promoting excise taxes.

...Health Tagged as Access · Children and youth · Health disparities · LGBTQI+ · Policy · Poverty · Racial and ethnic groups · Social determinants...

913. Neighborhood Disadvantage and Chronic Disease Management - Resources
Date: Feb 2019

Assesses the relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and control of blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol in the Medicare Advantage population. Features demographic statistics with breakdowns by 6 levels of population density.

...Health Services Research, 54(1), Part II, 206-216 Date 02/2019 Type Document Tagged as Cardiovascular disease · Diabetes · Health disparities · Healthcare quality · Medicare · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants...

914. Community Resilience Estimates - Resources
Reviewed: Mar 2024

Offers state and county profiles focused on community resilience, the capacity of community members to deal with and recover from a disaster and its related health, social, and economic impacts. Identifies risk factors for households and individuals, such as poverty level, unemployment, language barriers, and health status, and shares the risk factor results by county within each state and by census tract within each county. Also provides access to a supplemental data set focused on social vulnerability and equity.

...Health conditions · Health disparities · Health insurance · Housing and homelessness · Limited English proficient · Poverty · Social determinants...

915. CAH Staff Perspectives on use of EHRs for Quality Measure Activities - Resources
Date: Jan 2024

Summarizes interviews with eight Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) regarding electronic health record (EHR) use for quality measurement and improvement activities. Describes strengths and challenges for CAHs using EHRs for quality-related activities. Discusses the CAHs' readiness for, and concerns about, new health equity and social drivers of health quality measures.

...Access Hospitals · Health information technology · Healthcare business and finance · Healthcare quality · Social determinants of health...

916. Minority Health and Health Disparities Strategic Plan 2021–2025 - Resources
Date: Mar 2021

Planning document presenting goals to address health disparities through scientific research, activities that sustain research, and outreach efforts. Describes health disparity populations, including racial and ethnic minority, rural, less privileged socioeconomic status (SES), and sexual and gender minorities (SGM) populations. Outlines plans to implement research projects and activities, and discusses Leap Forward priority areas that will advance research methods in minority health and health disparities.

...Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health Tagged as Health disparities · LGBTQI+ · Population health · Racial and ethnic groups · Research methods and resources · Social determinants...

917. The Area Deprivation Index in Rural Health Research, with Casey Balio - Resources
Date: May 2024

An episode of the Exploring Rural Health podcast featuring Casey Balio, PhD, Research Assistant Professor at East Tennessee State University's Center for Rural Health Research and part of the ETSU/NORC Rural Health Equity Research Center. Focuses on the uses and methodology of the Area Deprivation Index.

...Health Equity Research Center. Focuses on the uses and methodology of the Area Deprivation Index. Date 05/2024 Type Audio Organization Rural Health Information Hub Tagged as Research methods and resources · Social determinants...

918. The Impact of Geographic Isolation on Mental Disability in the United States - Resources
Date: Aug 2019

Examines the association between geographic isolation and mental disability using the 2000 decennial census and supplementary county-level data from other sources. Analyzes factors including social isolation, socioeconomic status, and income inequality. Discusses theoretical explanations for the relationship between isolation and mental disability, and summarizes other factors which were not modeled in the study but which may be associated with poor mental health outcomes in rural areas.

...Health, 8, 100437 Date 08/2019 Type Document Tagged as Mental health · People with disabilities · Rural-urban differences · Social connectedness · Social determinants...

919. Association Between Social Vulnerability and a County's Risk for Becoming a COVID-19 Hotspot — United States, June 1–July 25, 2020 - Resources
Date: Oct 2020

Examines associations between social vulnerability and COVID-19 hotspot locations, based on June 1–July 25, 2020 county-level COVID-19 cases and data from the 2018 CDC social vulnerability index. Includes data by level of urbanicity for large metropolitan, small/medium metro, and nonmetro counties. Looks at both social vulnerability overall and specific components, including racial/ethnic minority population, percent of residents who speak English less than well, and housing and transportation vulnerability.

...Health disparities · Housing and homelessness · Limited English proficient · Population health · Racial and ethnic groups · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants...

920. Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment - Resources
Date: Jan 2017

Fifth and final report in a series designed to identify social risk factors that affect the health outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries and methods to account for these factors in Medicare payment programs. Offers thoughts about selecting the best methods to account for social risk factors and achieve policy goals. Chapter 2 includes a discussion about urbanicity and rurality, and suggests that a beneficiary's place of residence is a stronger indicator of social risk than their provider's location. Report was assembled by an ad hoc committee under the direction of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation.

...Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Tagged as Health reform · Healthcare quality · Medicare · Reimbursement and payment models · Social determinants...