Purpose: Little is known about incorporating community data into clinical care. This study
sought to understand the clinical associations of cold spots (census tracts with worse …

Poor and minority populations often live in socioeconomically disadvantaged
neighborhoods, and neighborhood context directly affects access to food, safety, education …

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and hospitals are facing additional requirements
and financial rewards for improving population health. Therefore, ACOs and hospitals will …

Objective Having local health data is critical to combat health disparities, and zip code-level
data are an underutilized source of such information. We sought to use zip code-level …

Importance Data from electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly used for risk
prediction. However, EHRs do not reliably collect sociodemographic and neighborhood …

Background The extent to which retail clinics provide access to care for underserved
populations remains largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine whether …

Purpose: As a rapidly growing new health care delivery model in the United States, retail
clinics have been the subject of much debate and controversy. Located physically within a …

Objectives Extant research clearly points to a correlation between place and health,
specifically as it pertains to chronic diseases like obesity. The present study examines this …

Background: Social determinants of health (SDOH) have an inextricable impact on health. If
remained unaddressed, poor SDOH can contribute to increased health care utilization and …

Background: Social factors are important drivers of health. However, it is unclear to what
extent neighborhood social conditions are associated with total and preventable health care …