&nbsp;This month's HIP features Part 1 of a conversation between Lisa Lines (in her professional role as Senior Health Services Researcher, RTI International, and Director of the RTI Rarity™ project) and her colleague, Dr. Carol Schmitt (Chief Scientist, RTI International). We discuss the interactive map produced by RTI International for Illinois, which is publicly viewable.&nbsp; Zooming in on several areas, we discuss the local social inequity in life expectancy (LSI-LE) scores and some of the underlying social and behavioral determinants of those scores, including:PovertyLack of insuranceUnemploymentBias, stress, and traumaSmokingSedentary behaviorsFor the video, please visit The Medical Care Blog!

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