Mapping Neighborhood Health Geomarkers to Clinical Care Decisions to Promote Equity in Child Health

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2017

This article highlights how data on place-based social determinants of health from national and local sources could be incorporated more directly into patient-centered care, adding precision to risk assessment and mitigation. The authors also discuss how this information could stimulate cross-sector interventions that promote health equity: the attainment of the highest level of health for neighborhoods, patient panels, and individuals.