The 2024 South Carolina Community Health Worker Prioritization Index

The SC CHW Index

The 2024 South Carolina Community Health Worker Prioritization Index (SC CHW Index) was created through a collaboration between the South Carolina Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and the Center for Community Health Alignment at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. The SC CHW Index (2024) indicates priority level for community health workers (CHWs) in South Carolina on both the zip code and county levels. Ranked from 0-1, the higher the SC CHW Index score, the greater the priority level for a CHW in that location.

In some communities, there are incredible income and health disparities. This means that data may seem incongruent with some aspects or neighborhoods of communities that appear to be high-income, but also are home to low-income community members

The index scores have been calculated by examining recent health data trends as reported by the United States Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), the South Carolina Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office (RFA), the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control’s (SC DHEC) South Carolina Community Assessment Network (SCAN), and the United States Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Much of this information is publicly available online.

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