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SatcherInstitute / health-equity-tracker

Health Equity Tracker is a free-to-use data visualization platform that is enabling new insights into the impact of COVID-19 and other social and political determinants of health on historically underrepresented groups in the United States.
https://healthequitytracker.org/
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Consider Age-Adjusting other conditions (e.g. diabetes, copd) #1467

Open benhammondmusic opened 2 years ago

benhammondmusic commented 2 years ago

Currently we are implementing #1459

If we can source the needed data, it would benefit equitable representation to expand our age-adjusted ratio calculations beyond COVID deaths and hospitalizations to include other conditions that disproportionately affect minority racial/ethnic groups.

jgonzalezmsm commented 2 years ago

Pending guidance from Ebony - which conditions should be age-adjusted. Once we know by topic, we can categorize into three groups:

1) should be age-adjusted, learn if we have the data needed (add to roadmap). 2) should be age-adjusted, but we do not have the data (include infobox why missing data is a problem) or 2) should not be age-adjusted, (include infobox as to why its not needed).

jgonzalezmsm commented 2 years ago

Per Ebony (bolded)

Currently Age-Adjusted: Covid Deaths Covid Hosp

Not Yet Age Adjusted (but appropriate if data were available): (You could do all of these, but aren’t completely necessary) Diabetes? (This could be age-adjusted, but…isn’t necessary unless we have info on Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes in the set) Chronic Kidney Disease? Cardiovascular Disease? (could be age-adjusted since it is less likely that a young adult for example would have a heart attack) COPD? Asthma? (This could be age – adjusted since children are more likely to continue to have asthma symptoms, but isn’t necessary)

Age Adjustment N/A: Covid cases covid vaccinations (may need to be age-adjusted since under 5 are still not eligible, but can still get COVID) voter participation care avoidance? preventable hospitalizations? depression? excessive drinking? frequent mental distress? suicide? illicit opioid use / non-rx opioid use / substance misuse poverty uninsurance

jgonzalezmsm commented 2 years ago

Can we age adjust any other topics?

Per Josh

Poverty Uninsurance

only two topics that we have data on currently.

okay holding on this

jgonzalezmsm commented 2 years ago

leave open, removing from backlog until we better define data sources