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Identifying At-Risk Communities and Key Vulnerability Indicators in the COVID-19 Pandemic (preprint)
medrxiv; 2021.
Preprint
in English
| medRxiv | ID: ppzbmed-10.1101.2021.09.19.21263805
ABSTRACT
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, certain communities have been disproportionately exposed to detrimental health outcomes and socioeconomic injuries. Quantifying community needs is crucial for identifying testing and service deserts, effectively allocating resources, and informing funding and decision making. We have constructed research-driven metrics measuring the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations. In this work we further examine and validate these indices by training supervised models to predict proxy outcomes and analyzing the feature importances to identify gaps in our original metric design. The indices analyzed in this work are unique among COVID-19 risk assessments due to their robust integration of disparate data sources. Together, they enable more effective responses to COVID-19 driven health inequities.
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medRxiv
Main subject:
Wounds and Injuries
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COVID-19
Language:
English
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Preprint
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