Intersecting social determinants of health among patients with childcare needs: a cross-sectional analysis of social vulnerability.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Access to childcare is an understudied social determinant of health (SDOH). Our health system established a childcare facility for patients to address childcare barriers to healthcare. Recognizing that social risk factors often co-exist, we sought to understand intersecting social risk factors among patients with childcare needs who utilized and did not utilize the childcare facility and identify residual unmet social needs alongside childcare needs.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of patients who enrolled in the childcare facility from November 2020 to October 2022 to compare parameters of the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) associated with the census tract extracted from electronic medical record (EMR) data among utilizers and non-utilizers of

SUBMITTER: Ganguly AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10902938 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature