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ArticleSSM - population health2019

Exploring consensus across sectors for measuring the social determinants of health.

Renee Roy Elias, Douglas P Jutte, Alison Moore

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Article in SSM - population health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Renee Roy EliasBuild Healthy Places Network, 870 Market Street, Suite 1255, San Francisco, CA, 94102, USA.
Douglas P JutteBuild Healthy Places Network, 870 Market Street, Suite 1255, San Francisco, CA, 94102, USA.
Alison MooreBuild Healthy Places Network, 870 Market Street, Suite 1255, San Francisco, CA, 94102, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The importance of social determinants of health (SDOH) -such as affordable housing, stable employment, consistent transportation, healthy food access, and quality schools-is well-established as a key component of chronic disease prevention and health promotion. Increasingly, practitioners within and beyond public health are collaborating to implement such strategies, part of which involves measuring their impacts over time. This study assesses the current state of SDOH measurement across sectors by systematically identifying how many and what kinds of tools exist and whether there is consensus around SDOH categories and indicators selected. This study revealed that while numerous SDOH measurement resources exist, relatively few are tools for measuring the SDOH. Although the SDOH categories being measured could be readily summarized across tools, there was wide variation in the particular SDOH categories included in each tool. Finally, remarkably little consensus exists for the specific indicators used to measure SDOH categories. While complete consensus across tools may not be possible, learning how different sectors measure SDOH and more systematically aligning SDOH categories and indicators being measured will enable greater collaboration and deepen the impacts of place-based interventions to improve community health and well-being.

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Community developmentCommunity healthHealth equityHealthy communitiesMeasurementSocial determinants of health

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PMCPMC6484213

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