Physician and healthcare partner engagement in the creation of healthfulness indices for West Michigan

IF 2.1 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology Pub Date : 2025-04-19 DOI:10.1016/j.sste.2025.100722

Richard Casey Sadler , Samantha Gailey , Erin R. McNeely

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Abstract

Community participatory mapping can direct health research, offering opportunity to build spatial awareness and generate future research. Here we establish healthfulness indices by consulting healthcare system partners for their expert opinions on characteristics they felt influenced health. Partners started from 36 variables and narrowed to 16 in 4 simplified categories. The analytic hierarchy process was used to identify variable and category weights. Opinions were consolidated for each partner sub-group and overall. Map layers were assigned calculated weights and indices were created from weighted layers. Areas with more amenities scored higher, including in and around downtown areas and smaller towns. Lower scores were found in suburban and lower-income urban areas. Variation in maps among subgroups reflect differing priorities in tackling health equity issues. This work increases healthcare partner engagement in built environment work and generates future research pathways. Partners now have a tool for interrogating and communicating the environment’s cumulative impact.

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医生和医疗保健合作伙伴参与创建健康指数为西密歇根州

社区参与式绘图可以指导卫生研究，为建立空间意识和开展未来研究提供机会。在此，我们通过咨询医疗保健系统合作伙伴对他们认为影响健康的特征的专家意见来建立健康指数。合作伙伴从36个变量开始，缩小到16个，简化为4个类别。采用层次分析法确定变量和类别的权重。对每个合作伙伴分组和整体的意见进行了合并。地图层被分配计算权重，并从加权层创建索引。拥有更多便利设施的地区得分更高，包括市中心及周边地区和小城镇。郊区和低收入城市地区的得分较低。分组间地图的差异反映了处理卫生公平问题的不同重点。这项工作增加了医疗保健合作伙伴对建筑环境工作的参与，并产生了未来的研究途径。合作伙伴现在有了一个工具来询问和交流环境的累积影响。

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Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

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8.80%

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