Health Outcomes, Social Determinants of Health and Geography Resources

This dataset includes materials for an undergraduate learning activity focused on exploring the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) through applied data analysis and mapping from Coastal Carolina University - Department of Nursing and Health Sciences. The download contains two files:<br>a written assignment with step-by-step instructions, andan Excel file containing county-level health and SDOH data for South Carolina. The data were compiled from three sources (CDC PLACES, US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap)Students use these materials to create maps, correlation matrices, and scatterplots in Microsoft Excel, enabling them to examine relationships between health outcomes and social factors such as poverty, education, and food access.