California Healthy Places Index and COVID-19 hospitalization risk: a patient-level analysis

Abstract Background Research has shown that inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes are influenced by individual-level characteristics and specific measures of neighborhood characteristics. Understanding the association between composite neighborhood-level social determinants of health, particularly newly developed determinant indices, and COVID-19 outcomes is important. The objective of this study is to contribute to the literature by evaluating the association between the California Healthy Places I