Association of County-Level Social Vulnerability and the Geospatial Distribution of United States Urologists
Using the SVI, we found that counties more socially vulnerable in socioeconomic status and household characteristics have significantly less access to urologists. Our findings suggest that the SVI can be used as a tool to locate socially vulnerable counties lacking access to urologic care and thus could potentially guide policy aimed at advancing equitable urologic access across the US.
Authors
- Milan P. Fehrenbach
- Ryan J. Davis
- Michael Daneshvar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0670-1110)
- Asher C. Park (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3631-463X)
- Navin Sabharwal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5920-2748)
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- University of Kentucky (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Irvine University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Urology
- Published
- 2025-04-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2025.04.046
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.52