Urban HEART Detroit: the Application of a Health Equity Assessment Tool.

ABSTRACT: The Urban Health Assessment Response Tool (Urban HEART) was developed by the World Health Organization. In 2016, the Urban HEART was adapted and used by the Healthy Environments Partnership, a long-standing community-based participatory research partnership focused on addressing social determinants of health in Detroit, Michigan, to identify health equity gaps in the city. This paper uses the tool to: (1) examine the geographic distributions of key determinants of health in Detroit, across the five Urban HEART specified domains: physical environment and infrastructure, social and human development, economics, governance, and population health, and (2) determine whether these indicators are associated with the population health indicators at the neighborhood level. In addition to the Urban

SUBMITTER: Mehdipanah R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7781400 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature