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Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them

While rural-urban disparities in health and health outcomes have been demonstrated, because of their impact on (and intervenability to improve) health and health outcomes, we sought to examine cross-sectional and longitudinal inequities in health, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determin...

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Autores principales: Weeks, William B., Chang, Ji E., Pagán, José A., Lumpkin, Jeffrey, Michael, Divya, Salcido, Santiago, Kim, Allen, Speyer, Peter, Aerts, Ann, Weinstein, James N., Lavista, Juan M.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10547156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37788228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002420
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author Weeks, William B.
Chang, Ji E.
Pagán, José A.
Lumpkin, Jeffrey
Michael, Divya
Salcido, Santiago
Kim, Allen
Speyer, Peter
Aerts, Ann
Weinstein, James N.
Lavista, Juan M.
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Chang, Ji E.
Pagán, José A.
Lumpkin, Jeffrey
Michael, Divya
Salcido, Santiago
Kim, Allen
Speyer, Peter
Aerts, Ann
Weinstein, James N.
Lavista, Juan M.
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description While rural-urban disparities in health and health outcomes have been demonstrated, because of their impact on (and intervenability to improve) health and health outcomes, we sought to examine cross-sectional and longitudinal inequities in health, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health (SDOH) between rural and non-rural counties in the pre-pandemic era (2015 to 2019), and to present a Health Equity Dashboard that can be used by policymakers and researchers to facilitate examining such disparities. Therefore, using data obtained from 2015–2022 County Health Rankings datasets, we used analysis of variance to examine differences in 33 county level attributes between rural and non-rural counties, calculated the change in values for each measure between 2015 and 2019, determined whether rural-urban disparities had widened, and used those data to create a Health Equity Dashboard that displays county-level individual measures or compilations of them. We followed STROBE guidelines in writing the manuscript. We found that rural counties overwhelmingly had worse measures of SDOH at the county level. With few exceptions, the measures we examined were getting worse between 2015 and 2019 in all counties, relatively more so in rural counties, resulting in the widening of rural-urban disparities in these measures. When rural-urban gaps narrowed, it tended to be in measures wherein rural counties were outperforming urban ones in the earlier period. In conclusion, our findings highlight the need for policymakers to prioritize rural settings for interventions designed to improve health outcomes, likely through improving health behaviors, clinical care, social and environmental factors, and physical environment attributes. Visualization tools can help guide policymakers and researchers with grounded information, communicate necessary data to engage relevant stakeholders, and track SDOH changes and health outcomes over time.
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spelling pubmed-105471562023-10-04 Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them Weeks, William B. Chang, Ji E. Pagán, José A. Lumpkin, Jeffrey Michael, Divya Salcido, Santiago Kim, Allen Speyer, Peter Aerts, Ann Weinstein, James N. Lavista, Juan M. PLOS Glob Public Health Research Article While rural-urban disparities in health and health outcomes have been demonstrated, because of their impact on (and intervenability to improve) health and health outcomes, we sought to examine cross-sectional and longitudinal inequities in health, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health (SDOH) between rural and non-rural counties in the pre-pandemic era (2015 to 2019), and to present a Health Equity Dashboard that can be used by policymakers and researchers to facilitate examining such disparities. Therefore, using data obtained from 2015–2022 County Health Rankings datasets, we used analysis of variance to examine differences in 33 county level attributes between rural and non-rural counties, calculated the change in values for each measure between 2015 and 2019, determined whether rural-urban disparities had widened, and used those data to create a Health Equity Dashboard that displays county-level individual measures or compilations of them. We followed STROBE guidelines in writing the manuscript. We found that rural counties overwhelmingly had worse measures of SDOH at the county level. With few exceptions, the measures we examined were getting worse between 2015 and 2019 in all counties, relatively more so in rural counties, resulting in the widening of rural-urban disparities in these measures. When rural-urban gaps narrowed, it tended to be in measures wherein rural counties were outperforming urban ones in the earlier period. In conclusion, our findings highlight the need for policymakers to prioritize rural settings for interventions designed to improve health outcomes, likely through improving health behaviors, clinical care, social and environmental factors, and physical environment attributes. Visualization tools can help guide policymakers and researchers with grounded information, communicate necessary data to engage relevant stakeholders, and track SDOH changes and health outcomes over time. Public Library of Science 2023-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10547156/ /pubmed/37788228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002420 Text en © 2023 Weeks et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Weeks, William B.
Chang, Ji E.
Pagán, José A.
Lumpkin, Jeffrey
Michael, Divya
Salcido, Santiago
Kim, Allen
Speyer, Peter
Aerts, Ann
Weinstein, James N.
Lavista, Juan M.
Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
title Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
title_full Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
title_fullStr Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
title_full_unstemmed Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
title_short Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
title_sort rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10547156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37788228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002420
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