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Context matters: what metrics are used where for socioeconomic status and position
Citation:
Rappazzo, K., C. Gray, AND D. Lobdell. Context matters: what metrics are used where for socioeconomic status and position. Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, June 19 - 22, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
This presentation discusses the rural/urban context of examining health effects of the social environment using metrics of socioeconomic status/position.
Description:
Sympoisum abstract: While the opioid crisis has brought rural health in the U.S. into sharp focus, the health gap between Americans living in rural vs. urban areas is stark across many leading health indicators (heart disease, cancer, injury), and has been growing. This widening gap demands that epidemiologists step back and clarify what we know, what we do not know, and our current limitations with respect to these populations and the communities in which they live. Our goal is to bring together speakers with diverse expertise to engage this important topic. Speakers will discuss their current research as it relates to rural health, emphasizing 1) what makes rural populations unique, 2) whether we have the right tools (e.g., social/environmental measures, data) to understand rural health, 3) critical methodological issues in rural health (e.g., scale selection, separation of contextual and compositional effects), and 4) questions we should be asking but are not.