Geo-spatial determinants of health
Provided by University of Connecticut School of Medicine Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and the UConn Health Disparities Institute.
Session Speaker: Emil Coman, PhD
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:15pm
Session Attendance Code: SALWOD
Session Description: This session is part of the Health Equity Lunch & Learn Series. Neighborhood context matters when it comes to health and health disparities. During this session participants will be introduced to PolicyMap, an online GIS mapping platform that draws on many layers of spatial data, which can illuminate the social determinants of patients’ health. We will share the experience of UConn and UConn Health students and clinicians who have used PolicyMap to process, map and analyze data to inform their research and action efforts to advance health equity. We will present life expectancy disparities, the roles of upward economic mobility and financial burden, and separate out neighborhood from individual health effects.
Session Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):
1. Describe the main geographies of CT and how Policymap represents and compares them.
2. Identify the types of geographic (areal) descriptors in Policymap, and explain how Policymap can travel up (zooming out) and down (zooming in) across them.
3. Describe the geography of ‘life expectancy (at birth)’ in CT, and how it relates spatially to the share of racial/ethnic minority residents across CT regions.
4. Describe how point data and areal data are handled in Policymap, while evaluating topics like ‘access to healthcare’.
Speaker Disclosure Statement: Emil Coman in their role as speaker for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. There are no relevant financial relationships listed for this individual to be mitigated.
Speaker Off-label Statement: Emil Coman will not be discussing the off-labeled, or investigational use of any product or device.
Target Audience: Practicing community outreach clinicians, physicians, nurses, physician assistants, medical assistants, and public health officials.
Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of _ 1 _ AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.
Activity Director & Planning Committee Disclosure Statement: Neither the activity director, the activity administrator, nor the planning committee members in their role as planning committee members for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. There are no relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals to be mitigated.
Commercial Support Statement: This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.
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