Systematic design and data-driven evaluation of social determinants of health ontology (SDoHO).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Social determinants of health (SDoH) play critical roles in health outcomes and well-being. Understanding the interplay of SDoH and health outcomes is critical to reducing healthcare inequalities and transforming a "sick care" system into a "health-promoting" system. To address the SDOH terminology gap and better embed relevant elements in advanced biomedical informatics, we propose an SDoH ontology (SDoHO), which represents fundamental SDoH factors and their relationships in a standardized and measurable way.

Material and methods

Drawing on the content of existing ontologies relevant to certain aspects of SDoH, we used a top-down approach to formally model classes, relationships, and constraints based on multiple SDoH-related resources. Expert review and coverage

SUBMITTER: Dang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10436148 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature