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Community-engaged development of a GIS-based healthfulness index to shape health equity solutions

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  • Sadler, Richard C.
  • Hippensteel, Christopher
  • Nelson, Victoria
  • Greene-Moton, Ella
  • Furr-Holden, C. Debra

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Addressing health disparities requires both community engagement and an understanding of the social determinants of health. Although elements of the built environment can influence behavior change in public health interventions, such determinants have not been explicitly teased out via participatory mapping. An opportunity exists to integrate community voice in the development of such metrics. To fill this gap and inform the deployment of public health interventions in the Flint (USA) Center for Health Equity Solutions (FCHES), we created a means of assessing spatially-varying community needs and assets in a geographic information system (GIS), what we refer to as a healthfulness index.

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  • Sadler, Richard C. & Hippensteel, Christopher & Nelson, Victoria & Greene-Moton, Ella & Furr-Holden, C. Debra, 2019. "Community-engaged development of a GIS-based healthfulness index to shape health equity solutions," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 227(C), pages 63-75.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:227:y:2019:i:c:p:63-75
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.030
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