Associations Between Different Self-reported Social Risks and Neighborhood-level Resources in Medicaid Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adverse social conditions are a key contributor to health disparities. Improved understanding of how social risk factors interact with each other and with neighborhood characteristics may inform efforts to reduce health disparities.

Data

A questionnaire of 29,281 patients was collected through the enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries in a large Northern California integrated health care delivery system between May 2016 and February 2020.

Exposures

Living in the least resourced quartile of neighborhoods as measured by a census-tract level Neighborhood Deprivation Index score.

Main outcomes

Five self-reported social risk factors: financial need, food insecurity, housing barriers, transportation barriers, and functional limitations.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Miller-Rosales C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9262842 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature