Fig. 3.

Relative Index of Inequality, Adjusted for Age, Sex, and Race/Ethnicity, in 209 Metropolitan Areas of the United States at the Average, +1 Standard Deviation, and –1 Standard Deviation of Metropolitan-Level Contextual Variables from 2012 to 2019. Footnote: Depicts the relative index of inequality (RII) (and 95 % confidence interval) of each contextual variable that was studied. The green bar represents the average metropolitan area level of each variable, the blue bar represents metropolitan areas with + 1 SD of each variable and the red bar represents metropolitan areas with −1 SD of each variable. Given this, contextual variables where the blue bar is to the right of the green bar and red bar is to the left of the green bar demonstrate greater disparities with greater values of that variable and vice versa. These were adjusted for age, sex, and race/ethnicity. NH: non-Hispanic, PCP pop: primary care physicians per capita. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)