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Positive And Negative Deviant Counties: Identification Of Factors Associated With Health Outcomes, Olivia Egen
Positive And Negative Deviant Counties: Identification Of Factors Associated With Health Outcomes, Olivia Egen
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Rural counties in the United States vary drastically on metrics related to socioeconomic status and dominant economic industry as well as health behaviors and outcomes. This study sought to understand the underlying structural reasons why some rural counties have better or worse than expected health outcomes using a positive deviance (PD) approach. The study aimed to: 1) create an area deprivation index and divide counties into quartiles using the index; 2) identify positive, negative, and non-deviant counties using health outcome metrics; 3) analyze differences between deviance on a variety of local public health system metrics; and 4) analyze differences between …