How Neighborhood Sways Pediatric Primary and Preventive Care Access

Patient Engagement August 28, 2023
By Sara Heath

Understanding how neighborhood disadvantage can affect pediatric primary and preventive care access, plus outcomes, can help tailor provider interventions.

Kids from traditionally underserved communities tend to have lower pediatric primary and preventive care access rates than their peers from more affluent places, a new JAMA Network Open study showed. This underscores the role neighborhood plays in health outcomes, researchers said.

The study, conducted by researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), looked at the Childhood Opportunity Index (COI), which measures how neighborhood conditions and resources can influence healthy childhood development. The team said that the COI is an effective tool against which to measure pediatric health outcomes because it incorporates elements that affect childhood development.

And ultimately, the COI...

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