Summary
This Lancet article highlights three challenges to measuring and analysing social determinants of health (SDoH) for which data science—a cross-disciplinary set of skills to make judgements and decisions with data by using it responsibly and effectively—can be harnessed. The three challenges the authors examine are:
- Data necessary for capturing the exposure of interest at multiple levels appropriately are not always available nor easy to measure.
- SDoH are distal to individual health outcomes compared to biomedical determinants such as comorbidities.
- The distal placement of SDoH in relation to health outcomes results in requires long periods of time to observe their effect.
Content
Social determinants of health: the need for data science methods and capacity (April 2024)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(24)00022-0/fulltext
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