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Lisa M Lines1,2, Marque C Long1, Sahar Zangeneh1,3
1RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
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The goal of health equity is for all people to have opportunities and resources for optimal health outcomes regardless of their social identities, residence in marginalized communities, and/or experience with oppressive systems. Social determinants of health (SDOH)-the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work, and age-are inextricably tied to health equity. Advancing health equity thus requires reliable measures of SDOH. In the United States, comprehensive individual-level data on SDOH are difficult to collect, may be inaccurate, and do not capture all dimensions of inequitable outcomes. Individual area-based indicators are widely available, but difficult to use in practice. Numerous area-level composite indices are available to describe SDOH, but there is no consensus on which indices are most appropriate to use. This article presents an analytic taxonomy of currently available SDOH composite indices and compares their components and predictive ability, providing insights into gaps and areas for further research.
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