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Minority health social vulnerability index fact sheet
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July 16, 2021
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Alternative Title:MHSVI;Minority Health SVI;
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Description:Every community must prepare for and respond to hazardous events, whether a natural disaster like a tornado or a disease outbreak, or a human-made event such as a harmful chemical spill. Several factors, including poverty, lack of access to transportation, and crowded housing may weaken a community’s ability to prevent human suffering and financial loss in a disaster. These factors are known as social vulnerability.
Using U.S. Census data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the first version of the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) in 2011 to enable emergency response planners and public health officials to identify, map, and plan support for communities that will most likely need support before, during, and after a public health emergency.
In 2021, the Office of Minority Health (OMH) partnered with CDC to launch the Minority Health SVI. The Minority Health SVI is an extension of the CDC SVI that combines the 15 social factors included in the original CDC SVI with additional factors known to be associated with COVID-19 outcomes. The factors are developed using five-year estimates of demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), and are organized into six themes:
• Socioeconomic Status
• Household Composition and Disability
• Minority Status and Language
• Housing Type and Transportation
• Health Care Infrastructure and Access
• Medical Vulnerability
The Minority Health SVI also expands the Minority Status and Language theme to include statistics for specific race and ethnicity categories and languages. Specifically, data is included for the five racial and ethnic minority groups currently defined by the 1997 OMB Directive 15 and the top five languages spoken by populations with limited English proficient (LEP) at the county level.
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https://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/Assets/PDF/MH%20SVI%20Fact%20Sheet_7.15.2021.pdf
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