Mapping Tool Highlights Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
A new tool supported by the National Institutes of Health uses education, housing and poverty measures to rank and map neighborhoods according to socioeconomic disadvantage. According to NIH, researchers, policymakers and health and social service personnel can use the Neighborhood Atlas to study social-biological mechanisms of health and disease, develop or study the impact of health policy, or better align resources.
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