Leslie M. Niziol

May 9, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | George Lin |Paula Anne Newman-Casey |Leslie M. Niziol

Place-Based Measures of Inequity and Vision Difficulty and Blindness Key PointsQuestion  Are current-day measures of segregation, income inequality, or poverty associated with neighborhood-level measures of vision difficulty and blindness? Findings  In this cross-sectional study of 73 198 US census tracts, the Theil H index, the Gini index, and persistent poverty were associated with a greater number of residents reporting vision difficulty and blindness.