Social Determinants of Health Risk Index

Overview

It is an inescapable fact that social and environmental factors have profound effects on a person’s health, creating both positive and negative outcomes. Health inequity is present throughout all levels of global healthcare and is reflected in disparities in length of life, quality of life, rates of disease and mortality, and access to care based upon socially determined circumstances. These myriad non-biological factors, intertwined in the fabric of our society and able to curtail years off of a person's life expectancy are referred to as Social Determinants of Health or SDOH.

HSR.health's SDOH Risk Index, available on the AWS Marketplace, identifies the populations at higher risk of adverse health outcomes based on the prevalence of SDOH factors.

US Social Determinants of Health Health Risk Index

HSR.health's SDOH Risk Index analyzes dozens of socioeconomic factors such as average family income, educational level, housing density, and race and ethnicity, among numerous others, to investigate their relationships with undesirable health outcomes. Data is curated from authoritative governmental and intergovernmental sources including the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Benefits

The SDOH Risk Index is a powerful and timely tool, which facilitates the work of our public health professionals in a variety of ways, allowing for:

Visualization of a problem at different geographical scales
Analysis of the magnitude of the problem at multiple locations.
Highly granular data for targeted interventions.
Longitudinal evaluation of targeted interventions through time.

Spatial Coverage

The SDOH Risk Index and its underlying datasets have been calculated for the United States and can be made available for any region globally based on the availability of the underlying datasets.

Temporal Coverage

2010 – Current. Incorporating historical trend analysis, continuous updates, as well as forecasting across multiple years can be accomplished upon request based on the temporal coverage of the underlying datasets.

Data Availability

The dataset is available in multiple formats, partially including: