This month's HIP features Part 1 of a conversation between Lisa Lines (in her professional role as Senior Health Services Researcher, RTI International, and Director of the RTI Rarity™ project) and her colleague, Dr. Carol Schmitt (Chief Scientist, RTI International). We discuss the interactive map produced by RTI International for Illinois, which is publicly viewable.  Zooming in on several areas, we discuss the local social inequity in life expectancy (LSI-LE) scores and some of the underlying social and behavioral determinants of those scores, including:

• Poverty
• Lack of insurance
• Unemployment
• Bias, stress, and trauma
• Smoking
• Sedentary behaviors

For the video, please visit The Medical Care Blog!