NR 530 Week 3 Social Determinants Map Example

Course	NR 530 Foundations Population Health
Week	3
Paper type	Social determinants map
Length	About 1,110 words, 3 pages
Format	APA 7 student paper
School	Chamberlain University
Program	MSN, Population Health
Updated	September 2026

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Social Determinants Map: Working Back From 49% Blood Pressure Control in Six Eastgate Tracts to the Closed Pharmacies, Short Bus Hours and Daytime Clinic That Keep Producing It, With a Name Against Each Condition

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College of Nursing, Chamberlain University

NR 530: Foundations Population Health

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Month Day, Year

What this page is doingThe title starts from one measured result and promises to name who can alter each condition behind it, which is what separates a determinants map from a list of forces. Student APA 7 title page.

The Outcome

This map starts from one figure. Among the 3,412 adults on our community health center's panel who live in the six Eastgate census tracts and have hypertension, 49% were under 140/90 at their most recent 2025 visit. Among the health center's patients with hypertension who live elsewhere in the city, the figure was 64%. The patients are treated by the same clinicians using the same protocol and the same medications. A gap of fifteen points that repeats in the same six tracts year after year is not explained by chance or by individual choices alone. It is being produced by conditions that sit outside the exam room.

Braveman and Gottlieb (2014) call these conditions the causes of the causes: the living and working conditions, and the economic and social forces behind them, that shape which people are exposed to risk and which can act on medical advice. This map works backward from our outcome to those conditions and, for each, names someone who could change it.

How the Map Was Built

I began with our own records, which show that Eastgate patients have fewer days covered by their blood pressure prescriptions and more missed visits than other patients. I then asked why, using conversations with our community health workers, the transit authority's route maps, pharmacy locations and county eviction data. Each condition on the map had to meet two tests: a plausible mechanism linking it to blood pressure control, and at least one source outside my own impressions. Table 1 summarizes the result.

Table 1

Conditions Linked to Blood Pressure Control in Eastgate

Condition	Mechanism to the outcome	Evidence	Who could alter it
Two pharmacies closed in 2024; four tracts now over two miles from one	Refills lapse; patients ration pills	Refill gaps in our records; pharmacy desert research	Health plan (delivery benefit); health center (on-site dispensing); city (retail incentives)
Bus route 14 stops at 1900 and does not run Sundays	Evening and weekend trips to pharmacy or clinic are impractical	Transit schedule	Regional transit authority
Clinic open 0800 to 1700 on weekdays only	Hourly workers without paid leave miss visits and titration	Missed visit rates by appointment time	Health center
Frequent moves after eviction filings	Outreach letters and calls fail; patients drop off the registry	County eviction filings; returned mail	County, legal aid, health center contact updates
Food retail dominated by convenience and dollar stores	Sodium-heavy diet raises pressure despite medication	Store survey by community health workers	City health department (healthy retail program)

Pharmacy Access

The strongest link on the map is pharmacy access. When two chain pharmacies on the main commercial street closed in 2024, four of the six tracts were left more than two miles from the nearest pharmacy. Many Eastgate households do not own a car. Our refill data changed soon after: the share of Eastgate patients with at least 80% of days covered by an antihypertensive prescription fell noticeably in the following year. This pattern is not unique to Eastgate. A Chicago study found pharmacy deserts disproportionately in segregated Black communities and low-income areas and suggested placing pharmacies inside community health centers (Qato et al., 2014), and a study of the thirty most populous U.S. cities found persistently fewer pharmacies and more pharmacy deserts in Black and Hispanic/Latino neighborhoods (Guadamuz et al., 2021). The condition has an address and an owner. The managed care plan could fund home delivery; the health center could dispense on site; the city could offer incentives for a pharmacy to reopen.

Transport and Hours

The second and third conditions work together. Route 14, the only bus serving the eastern tracts, stops running at 1900 and does not operate on Sundays. Our clinic closes at 1700 on weekdays. A patient who works an hourly day shift without paid leave has no practical way to reach a visit or, since the closures, a pharmacy, without losing wages. Our records show that Eastgate patients miss morning appointments at nearly twice the rate of afternoon ones, which suggests work schedules rather than indifference. The health center controls its own hours. The transit authority controls the route. Neither has been asked by the other to consider the combination.

Housing Instability and Food Retail

Eviction filings in Eastgate are higher than in the rest of the city, according to county court data. A patient who moves after an eviction often changes phone number and address, and our outreach letters come back. Such patients drop off our registry's contact list at the moment their care is most likely to lapse. The county, legal aid and the health center each hold part of this condition: legal aid can prevent some evictions, and the health center can collect a second contact person at every visit.

Food retail matters more slowly. Our community health workers surveyed the eleven food stores within the tracts and found fresh produce in two. A diet high in sodium makes blood pressure harder to control even with medication. The city health department runs a healthy retail program elsewhere and could extend it to Eastgate.

What the Map Leaves Out

The map is limited to our panel and to conditions we could document. It does not include racism in housing and lending history, which shaped where pharmacies and grocery stores chose to locate and is a cause behind several of the conditions above. It does not include the Eastgate residents with hypertension who are not our patients. And it does not measure how much each condition contributes to the gap, which would require a different study. What it does is turn a fifteen-point gap into five conditions, each with a named owner who can be asked to act. That is the point of the exercise. A determinant with no owner stays a description. The map will also be revised. Our community health workers will add conditions they hear about at home visits, such as broken elevators in the two high-rise buildings that keep older patients indoors, and each new entry must meet the same two tests before it goes on the map. A map that never changes has usually stopped being checked.

What this page is doingEach condition carries a mechanism, a source and an owner, and the map ends by stating what it cannot show, which keeps it honest about the limits of a panel-based view.

References

Braveman, P., & Gottlieb, L. (2014). The social determinants of health: It's time to consider the causes of the causes. Public Health Reports, 129(Suppl. 2), 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549141291S206

Guadamuz, J. S., Wilder, J. R., Mouslim, M. C., Zenk, S. N., Alexander, G. C., & Qato, D. M. (2021). Fewer pharmacies in Black and Hispanic/Latino neighborhoods compared with White or diverse neighborhoods, 2007-15. Health Affairs, 40(5), 802-811. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01699

Qato, D. M., Daviglus, M. L., Wilder, J., Lee, T., Qato, D., & Lambert, B. (2014). "Pharmacy deserts" are prevalent in Chicago's predominantly minority communities, raising medication access concerns. Health Affairs, 33(11), 1958-1965. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1397

Reading the NR 530 Week 3 instructions

Week 3 generally asks you to map the social determinants of health affecting your population and a health outcome. Prompts ask for the outcome, the determinants, how each influences the outcome, supporting data or literature and implications for intervention. Many sections accept a diagram or a table with explanation. Start from one measured result for a named group and period, not a topic. Work backward to conditions you can document, and give each a mechanism linking it to the outcome. Local specifics, such as a closed pharmacy or a bus schedule, make the map credible. For each condition, name who could change it. Cite determinants research and data sources in APA 7, and follow the format your section sets.

Inside the NR 530 Week 3 example

The example begins with the outcome and the comparison that makes it a problem: same clinicians, same protocol, fifteen points apart. A section explains how the map was built from records, community health worker conversations, transit maps and eviction data, with two tests for every condition. Table 1 lists five conditions with mechanism, evidence and owner. Longer sections follow for pharmacy access, supported by two studies of pharmacy deserts, then transport and clinic hours, then housing instability and food retail. The final section states the map's limits: it omits the history that shaped store locations, residents outside the panel and the size of each condition's contribution, and it will be revised as new conditions are found.

Reading the NR 530 Week 3 grading rubric

Determinants map rubrics generally reward a clearly stated outcome, relevant determinants supported by evidence, explanation of mechanisms, attention to the specific population and implications for action. Graders give the most credit to maps built from local conditions with a plausible pathway to the outcome, rather than lists of national categories. Naming who could change each condition shows the application skill the course builds toward. Evidence from published research and local data should both appear. A table or diagram must be explained in prose. Stating limits, such as missing groups or unmeasured contributions, is often credited as critical thinking. Citations and clear presentation earn the final share.

NR 530 Week 3 help from the desk

Weak maps tend to offer a roster of standard determinants, such as income, education and housing, with no link to a specific outcome or place. Start from a number and work backward. Another is presenting conditions without a mechanism, which leaves the reader to guess how a bus schedule affects blood pressure. State the pathway. Students also leave the map with no owners, so it describes a problem nobody can act on. Avoid claiming more certainty than the data allow, especially about how much each condition contributes. Check that every figure has a source. Do not skip structural history that shaped the conditions, even if you cannot act on it. Finally, keep the map to conditions you can document.

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NR 530 Week 3 questions, answered

Does the map have to be a picture?

That depends on the section, and the classroom announcement decides it. Some accept a table with columns for condition, mechanism, evidence and owner, which carries the same content and is easier to source properly. Whichever form is used, the prose has to do more than caption the image. A picture with no accompanying argument tends to lose points for depth even when the layout is clean.

How local should the conditions be?

Local enough that the map would be wrong for the next county. Named road corridors, a specific pharmacy closure, a heat pattern in one apartment stock, actual eviction filing figures. The nationally generic conditions are all true and none of them distinguish your area, so a map built entirely from them tells a grader that no local sources were opened.

Where do I find figures small enough to use?

Census tract and county level data carry most of this week. Federal and state public health portals publish outcomes at those levels, and municipal open data often carries the conditions themselves, including transit schedules and housing court filings. Cite the extraction date alongside the source, because these datasets are revised and a grader checking your figure next month may see a different one.

Where can I find a free NR 530 Week 3 sample paper?

This page holds the Eastgate determinants map with its table, the complete NR 530 Week 3 sample, open to read at no charge. For a map built around your own outcome and neighborhood, send us the figure and place and a version can be written.

How many determinants should the NR 530 Week 3 map include?

Enough to explain the outcome, usually four to six, each with a mechanism and an owner. The sample maps five conditions and notes one more that community health workers are still documenting.