Previously submitted to: Online Journal of Public Health Informatics (no longer under consideration since Dec 03, 2023)
Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2023
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Urban HEART: Application of Health Equity Assessment Tool in Spain.
ABSTRACT
Background:
The Urban Health combine quantitative data with community knowledge to evaluate and prioritize urban health inequities.
Objective:
To describe the characteristics of tuberculosis in the city of Barcelona. To explore the relationships between the incidence levels of tuberculosis and socioeconomic factor. To apply the linear regression model to analyze and predict the tuberculosis rate by districts and neighborhoods in Barcelona.
Methods:
The description and analysis of relationships between the socioeconomic factors and the tuberculosis rate is carried out through an ecological approach
Results:
The relationship between Disposable Family Income (DFI) and Habitability Index (HI) with the tuberculosis rate (TR) in the neighborhoods and districts shows values of 0.66 [(95% CI 0.50 ÷ 0.77); p = 2.818e-10] and 0.89 [(95% CI 0.60 ÷ 0.97); p = 0.0004845] respectively for HI indicator and -0.41 [(95% CI -0.59 ÷ -0.20); p = 0.0002812] and -0.70 [(95% CI -0.92 ÷ -0.11); p = 0.02554] respectively for DFI indicator. The linear regression model of the TR as a function of the HI predicts 43.12% (p = 2.818e-10) and 79.93% (p = 0.0004845) of the cases in the neighborhoods and districts.
Conclusions:
There is a strong association to predict the TR based on the HI.
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