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A Scoping Review and Assessment of the Area-Level Composite Measures That Estimate Social Determinants of Health Across the United States.
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- Leveraging the Transitional Care Model Intervention to Identify and Mitigate Adverse Social Determinants of Health.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025Article
- Association Between Health-Related Behaviors and Health Status and Hydration Status in Polish Adults.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Social determinants of health and health outcomes in older cancer survivors.Current opinion in supportive and palliative care · 2025Review
- Assessing community health needs in Jeddah Second Health Cluster: A qualitative descriptive study.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectivesEvidence-informed population health initiatives often leverage data from various sources, such as epidemiologic surveillance data and administrative datasets. Recent interest has arisen in using area-level composite measures describing a community's social risks to inform the development and implementation of health policies, including payment reform initiatives. Our objective was to capture the breadth of available area-level composite measures that describe social determinants of health (SDH) and have potential for application in population health and policy work.
methodsWe conducted a scoping review of the scientific literature from 2010 to 2022 to identify multifactorial indices and rankings reflected in peer-reviewed literature that estimate SDH and that have publicly accessible data sources. We discovered several additional composite measures incidental to the scoping review process. Literature searches for each composite measure aimed to contextualize common applications in public health investigations.
resultsFrom 491 studies, we identified 31 composite measures and categorized them into 8 domains: environmental conditions and pollution, opportunity and infrastructure, deprivation and well-being, COVID-19, rurality, food insecurity, emergency response and community resilience, and health. Composite measures are applied most often as an independent variable associated with disparities, risk factors, and/or outcomes affecting individuals, populations, communities, and health systems.
conclusionsArea-level composite measures describing SDH have been applied to wide-ranging population health work. Social risk indicators may enable policy makers, evaluators, and researchers to better assess community risks and needs, thereby facilitating the evidence-informed development, implementation, and study of initiatives that aim to improve population health.
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