Upcoming Webinar: Neighborhoods as a Social Determinant of Health
Join us on July 27th at 1:00 pm EST for a free webinar!
Please join us for “Neighborhoods as a Social Determinant of Health” presented by Philippa Clarke, Grace Noppert, and Marilyn Sinkewicz from the University of Michigan. The webinar is hosted by the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a data repository funded by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Health disparities are a function of access (or lack of access) to multi-level social determinants of health, including conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age. This webinar will discuss how neighborhoods operate as a social determinant of health, and how local context can “get under the skin” to shape health disparities. Using data from the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA), presenters will highlight the diverse pathways by which neighborhood characteristics can shape health, including socioeconomic structure, health care access, transportation, broadband internet access, and political partisanship. A “tour” of the NaNDA archive and its data holdings will be provided. The webinar will close with a discussion of policy implications and translation, including the role of neighborhood context for the inequitable distribution of COVID-19 and its consequences. Participants will learn about the resources available on the RWJF and HMCA websites and have the opportunity to ask questions. Register here: https://myumi.ch/84xqk.
Jul 19, 2022