I am trying to map data that has been aggregated to zip, census tract, geo coding, etc into the CDM as observations/observable entities for each patient. Is there a convention around what concepts to use? I don’t see, for example, concepts covering the use of the CDCs social vulnerability index measures as observations for a patient or other census tract level characteristics. Some specific examples include:
% of population below poverty line
% of population unemployed
% of population with no high school diploma
% of population living in multi-unit structures/group quarters
% of population with no vehicle
census tract considered a food desert
If I use the geo coding/zip+4 for the patient location data to create observable events for these patients, how do I go about mapping the concepts and what is the suggestion for how to date these observations (e.g. year of the data collection, date it was updated…)? Thank you! JB