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ArticleThe Lancet. Digital health2024

Social determinants of health: the need for data science methods and capacity.

Rumi Chunara, Jessica Gjonaj, Eileen Immaculate, Iris Wanga, James Alaro, Lori A J Scott-Sheldon, Judith Mangeni, Ann Mwangi, Rajesh Vedanthan, Joseph Hogan

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Article in The Lancet. Digital health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. A Novel Decision-Modeling Framework for Health Policy Analyses When Outcomes Are Influenced by Social and Disease Processes.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2026
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  13. Health inequities: a persistent global challenge from past to future.International journal for equity in health · 2025
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  16. A scoping review and expert consensus on digital determinants of health.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Rumi ChunaraSchool of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA; Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. Electronic address: rumi.chunara@nyu.edu.
Jessica GjonajSchool of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA; Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Eileen ImmaculateCollege of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.
Iris WangaCollege of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.
James AlaroNational Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Lori A J Scott-SheldonNational Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Judith MangeniCollege of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.
Ann MwangiCollege of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.
Rajesh VedanthanGrossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Joseph HoganBrown University School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

Funding

NYU-Moi Data Science for Social Determinants Training ProgramU2RTW012121 · FIC · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI CHUNARA, RUMI, MWANGI, ANN · 2021 to 2025
$1.9M
FIC NIH HHS U2R TW012121
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID38519151
PMCPMC11001304

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