The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Health Disparities
This research addresses health disparities for low-income and less-educated populations in the US, but it is incremental as it uses existing methods on new data.
The study analyzed US Census and CDC data to examine how socioeconomic factors correlate with health metrics, finding that income and educational attainment are highly correlated with aggregate health measures.
High-quality healthcare in the US can be cost-prohibitive for certain socioeconomic groups. In this paper, we examined data from the US Census and the CDC to determine the degree to which specific socioeconomic factors correlate with both specific and general health metrics. We employed visual analysis to find broad trends and predictive modeling to identify more complex relationships between variables. Our results indicate that certain socioeconomic factors, like income and educational attainment, are highly correlated with aggregate measures of health.