The U.S. Social Determinants
of Health Atlas

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are the conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes. While researchers have long known that socieconomic indicators like poverty and education impact health, it's less clear why it matters in some places more than others.

Our study looked at all the populated census tracts on the United States mainland to look for patterns across fifteen common SDOH indicators. We grouped these as four dimensions of SDOH, and then summarized all tracts as SDOH neighborhood types. The data provided here are the analytic results of a study by University of Chicago and AHA Center for Health Innovation researchers.


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Study Citation.

Kolak, Marynia, Bhatt, Jay, Park, Yoon Hong, Padron, Norma, and Molefe, Ayrin. "Quantification of Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants of Health in the Continental United States." JAMA Network Open. 2020;3(1):e1919928. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.19928


Explore different dimensions of the social determinants of health at the neighborhood level across the continental United States.

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