Area deprivation index and segregation on the risk of HIV: a U.S. Veteran case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preventing HIV infection remains a critically important tool in the continuing fight against HIV/AIDS. The primary aim is to evaluate the effect and interactions between a composite area-level social determinants of health measure and an area-level measure of residential segregation on the risk of HIV/AIDS in U.S. Veterans.

Methods

Using the individual-level patient data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, we constructed a case-control study of veterans living with HIV/AIDS (VLWH) and age-, sex assigned at birth- and index date-matched controls. We geocoded patient's residential address to ascertain their neighborhood and linked their information to two measures of neighborhood-level disadvantage: area deprivation index (ADI) and isolation index (ISOL).

SUBMITTER: Oluyomi AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10041556 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature