Can social vulnerability indices predict county trauma fatality rates?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social vulnerability indices were created to measure resiliency to environmental disasters based on socioeconomic and population characteristics of discrete geographic regions. They are composed of multiple validated constructs that can also potentially identify geographically vulnerable populations after injury. Our objective was to determine if these indices correlate with injury fatality rates in the US.

Methods

We evaluated three social vulnerability indices: The Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute's Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI), the Center for Disease Control's Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), and the Economic Innovation Group's Distressed Community Index (DCI). We analyzed SVI subindices and common individual census variables as indicators of so

SUBMITTER: Phelos HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8375410 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature