Cultural context index: A geospatial measure of social determinants of health in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Minority populations will continue to grow in the United States. Such pluralism necessitates iterative, geospatial measurements of cultural contexts. Our objective in this study was to create a measure of social determinants of health in geographic areas with varying ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity in the United States. We extracted geographic information systems data based on community characteristics that have known associations with population health disparities from 2015 to 2019. We used principal component analysis to construct a Cultural Context Index (CCI). We created the CCI for 73,682 census tracts across 50 states and five inhabited territories. We identified hot and cold spots that are the highest and lowest CCI quintile, respectively. Hot spots census tracts were mo

SUBMITTER: Beauchamp AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10820261 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature