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Green A. Ekadi, PhD and Edward Byrd, MSPHc. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, 1005 D.B. Todd Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37217, 615 327 5516, gekadi@mmc.edu

Green A. Ekadi, PhD¹, and Edward Byrd, MSPH². (1) Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, 1005 D.B. Todd Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37208, (2) Division of Public Health Practice, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, 1005 D.B. Todd Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37208, 615-327-6069

Despite the knowledge that socio-economic status is an important determinant of population health status, the US public health surveillance system has been slow in employing methodologies that enable area-based tracking of SES variability at the community level. The result has been limited geo-spatial comparisons of the effects of SES variability on community health disparities and a delayed construction of area-based socio-economic measures for testing the relationship of socio-economic positioning to health disparities at the community level.

The objective of this study is to examine the effects of SES variability in the twenty-one zip codes of Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, on the variability in diabetes prevalence among the different zip codes. The study will construct an index of socio-economic deprivation for each of the zip codes using two are-based socio-economic measures, the Townsend index and the Socio-economic positioning index. Survey data on diabetes from the Metropolitan Public Health Department and the State Health Department, as well as demographic and socio-economic data from the Bureau of the Census, will provide the database for the study.

Learning Objectives:

• • To explain disease disparities at the community level
• • To introduce the concept of area-based public health surveillance

Keywords: Community Health Planning, Community-Based Public Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

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