The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Health Disparities

TL;DR

This study analyzes how socioeconomic factors such as income and education influence health disparities in the US, revealing significant correlations through data analysis and modeling.

Contribution

It provides new insights into the specific socioeconomic factors that most strongly correlate with health outcomes using combined visual and predictive analysis.

Findings

Income and education are highly correlated with health metrics

Socioeconomic disparities significantly impact health outcomes

Predictive models identify complex relationships between variables

Abstract

High-quality healthcare in the US can be cost-prohibitive for certain socioeconomic groups. In this paper, we examined data from the US Census and the CDC to determine the degree to which specific socioeconomic factors correlate with both specific and general health metrics. We employed visual analysis to find broad trends and predictive modeling to identify more complex relationships between variables. Our results indicate that certain socioeconomic factors, like income and educational attainment, are highly correlated with aggregate measures of health.