Neighborhood Atlas ADI For Measuring Socioeconomic Status: An
Overemphasis On Home Value
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Area Deprivation Index Limitations
The Area Deprivation Index (ADI) measures socioeconomic disadvantage by
capturing social risk factors that are not available in typical clinical
registries but affect health outcomes.
The Neighborhood Atlas web portal makes the ADI available to researchers
and policy makers in a readily accessible and usable format.
In their new Health Affairs paper, Edward Hannan and coauthors find that
Neighborhood Atlas-computed ADI scores
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for New York block groups overweight median home value, potentially
harming already disadvantaged communities.
"This can be especially problematic when considering quality assessment,
funding, and resource allocation in regions with large variations in
cost of living, and it may result in underresourcing for disadvantaged
communities with high housing prices," the authors explain.
These issues "have significant implications but are not fatal flaws,"
write Hannan and coauthors. "Standardization could be remedied easily by
conversion of all variables to standard normal before computing the ADI
block group indices."
In their Perspective on Hannan and coauthors' article, David Rehkopf
and Robert Phillips recommend revising the Neighborhood Atlas ADI
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to standardize variable units. They also outline five steps to avoid
future errors in the creation of area deprivation measures.
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