An Ontology for the Social Determinants of Health Domain

Navya Martin Kollapally; Yan Chen; Julia Xu; James Geller

doi:10.1109/BIBM55620.2022.9995544

An Ontology for the Social Determinants of Health Domain

Navya Martin Kollapally
, Yan Chen
, Julia Xu
, James Geller

Computer Information Systems

Department of Computer Information Systems
JX Consulting
New Jersey Institute of Technology

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8 Scopus citations

Abstract

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are societal factors, such as where a person was born, grew up, works, lives, etc., along with socio-economic and community factors that affect an individual's health. SDOH are correlated with many clinical outcomes, hence it is desirable to record SDOH data in Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Besides storing images, text, etc., EHRs rely on coded terms available in standard ontologies and terminologies to record observations and analyses. There is a substantial amount of research on understanding the clinical impact of SDOH, ranging from screening tools to practice-based interventions. However, there is no comprehensive collection of terms for recording SDOH observations in EHRs. Our research goal is to develop an ontology that covers the terms describing SDOH. We present a prototype ontology called Social Determinant of Health Ontology (SOHO) that covers relevant concepts and IS-A relationships describing impacts and associations of social determinants. We describe the evaluation techniques that we applied to SOHO, including human experts' review and algorithmic evaluation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022
Editors	Donald Adjeroh, Qi Long, Xinghua Shi, Fei Guo, Xiaohua Hu, Srinivas Aluru, Giri Narasimhan, Jianxin Wang, Mingon Kang, Ananda M. Mondal, Jin Liu
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	2403-2410
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665468190
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM55620.2022.9995544
State	Published - 2022
Event	2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022 - Las Vegas, United States Duration: 6 Dec 2022 → 8 Dec 2022

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Name	Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022

Conference

Conference	2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	6/12/22 → 8/12/22

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

BioPortal
EHR
ICD 10 CM
Ontology
Protégé
SDOH ontology
SNOMED CT
Social determinants of health

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Kollapally, N. M., Chen, Y., Xu, J., & Geller, J. (2022). An Ontology for the Social Determinants of Health Domain. In D. Adjeroh, Q. Long, X. Shi, F. Guo, X. Hu, S. Aluru, G. Narasimhan, J. Wang, M. Kang, A. M. Mondal, & J. Liu (Eds.), Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022 (pp. 2403-2410). (Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM55620.2022.9995544

Kollapally, Navya Martin ; Chen, Yan ; Xu, Julia et al. / An Ontology for the Social Determinants of Health Domain. Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022. editor / Donald Adjeroh ; Qi Long ; Xinghua Shi ; Fei Guo ; Xiaohua Hu ; Srinivas Aluru ; Giri Narasimhan ; Jianxin Wang ; Mingon Kang ; Ananda M. Mondal ; Jin Liu. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. pp. 2403-2410 (Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022).

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Kollapally, NM, Chen, Y, Xu, J & Geller, J 2022, An Ontology for the Social Determinants of Health Domain. in D Adjeroh, Q Long, X Shi, F Guo, X Hu, S Aluru, G Narasimhan, J Wang, M Kang, AM Mondal & J Liu (eds), Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022. Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 2403-2410, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022, Las Vegas, United States, 6/12/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM55620.2022.9995544

An Ontology for the Social Determinants of Health Domain. / Kollapally, Navya Martin; Chen, Yan; Xu, Julia et al.
Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022. ed. / Donald Adjeroh; Qi Long; Xinghua Shi; Fei Guo; Xiaohua Hu; Srinivas Aluru; Giri Narasimhan; Jianxin Wang; Mingon Kang; Ananda M. Mondal; Jin Liu. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 2403-2410 (Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Kollapally NM, Chen Y, Xu J, Geller J. An Ontology for the Social Determinants of Health Domain. In Adjeroh D, Long Q, Shi X, Guo F, Hu X, Aluru S, Narasimhan G, Wang J, Kang M, Mondal AM, Liu J, editors, Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2022. p. 2403-2410. (Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022). doi: 10.1109/BIBM55620.2022.9995544

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