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Neighborhood-Disadvantage and Health: A Podcast with Amy Kind
What if there was a tool that could break down a neighborhood's socioeconomic measures, like income, education, employment and housing quality, to give us a sense of how those factors influence overall health, and maybe even inform where to target health resources and social interventions.
On today's podcast we talk with Dr. Amy Kind from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, who developed that tool, the Neighborhood Atlas. The Neighborhood Atlas uses the "Area Deprivation Index," which includes 17 measures of education, housing quality and poverty, and can be used…
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