How does Place Matter to the health of the public and the health of an individual? I have a catch-phrase answer I use that says simply “Because Everything Happens Somewhere.” This deceptively simplistic response actually hides a fair amount of complexity. Where a person lives, where they spend many hours working during a year, and...
Place matters to personal and population health. The social determinants of health have begun to shape public health and policy interventions and neighborhood socioeconomic and demographic characteristics play significant roles in influencing health outcomes. The continued realization that place matters has led to the emergence of the field of population health, which includes health determinants,...
How do you measure health promotion activities in your region? What performance indicators show that your health promotion efforts are producing results? We’re curious because one of our partner organizations, The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati,* has shifted its strategic direction away from access to care and toward health promotion. Now called Interact for Health,...
HealthLandscape‘s interactive visualization of school-based health center (SBHC) performance was recognized as one of the top three web-based GIS applications in Esri’s User Software Applications Fair last week at the 2013 Esri International User Conference in San Diego. The School-Based Health Center Performance Monitor is based on our Site Performance Explorer, a tool we created...
The Facts Matter data portal is an online tool for data sharing in the Greater Cincinnati region. Community representatives and local leaders (such as the United Way of Greater Cincinnati) have determined what indicators best measure the well-being of the region. They use Facts Matter to display these shared measures and community-level outcomes. Improving high...
Congratulations to Jennifer Chubinski, Director of Community Research at The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, and our own Mark Carrozza, Health Informatics Developer at HealthLandscape, on publication of their chapter “Obesity and Food Insecurity” in the book Appalachian Health and Well-Being. Their chapter examines the linkages between food scarcity and obesity in Appalachian rural and...
New data available in HealthLandscape! We have added the most recent data from the CDC Diabetes Surveillance System to HealthLandscape, both at www.healthlandscape.org and, in Quick Map form, at beta.healthlandscape.org. Variables include the Percent of Adults who are Physically Inactive, the Percent of Adults who are Obese, and the Percent of Adults who have Diabetes....
New data available in HealthLandscape! Yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau released their 2009 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates. According to their analysis, the poverty rate for children ages 5 to 17 in families rose in 295 counties and declined in 19 counties between 2007 and 2009. Most counties saw no statistically significant change between...
New data available in HealthLandscape! The US Census Bureau’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) for 2007 are estimates of health insurance coverage for all counties. This dataset includes county-level estimates on the number of people and the percentages of people with and without health insurance coverage for ages 18 to 64 years. For more...
The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program is a federal-state cooperative effort in which monthly estimates of total employment and unemployment are prepared. These estimates are key indicators of local economic conditions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for the concepts, definitions, technical procedures, validation and publication...
