Open AccessLatent Class Analysis to Represent Social Determinant of Health Risk Groups in the Medicaid Cohort of the District of Columbia
Author(s) -
Melissa L. McCarthy,
Zhong Zheng,
Marcee Wilder,
Angelo Elmi,
Paige Kulie,
Samuel Johnson,
Scott L. Zeger
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001468
Subject(s) - medicaid , health care , latent class model , social determinants of health , social class , cohort , social support , medicine , environmental health , demography , gerontology , psychology , public health , social psychology , nursing , economics , market economy , statistics , mathematics , sociology , economic growth
To develop distinct social risk profiles based on social determinants of health (SDH) information and to determine whether these social risk groups varied in terms of health, health care utilization, and costs.