Virtual Rural Health Equity Summit: Additional Resources

HealthLandscape was originally developed out of the need for better decision making in healthcare and community health practices – a recognition of the importance of “Data Driven Decision Making,” or making decisions – financial, practical, logistical – based on actual data and evidence, rather than “best guesses.” The premise behind HealthLandscape is that “if a picture is worth a thousand words… a map is worth a thousand pictures.” We use data and maps to help tell stories.

HealthLandscape has a variety of online mapping applications that serve as “do-it-yourself” hotspotting and data exploration tools, freely available for use and available at www.healthlandscape.org.

Detailed user guides are available in the mapping tool and we offer monthly webinars that provide the opportunity to learn more about the functions, data, and potential uses. Some of the tools available include:

Community HealthView – brings together various sources of health, socio-economic, and environmental information in a convenient, central location to help answer questions about and improve health and health care
Population Health Mapper – includes the majority of the Health Outcome and Health Determinant Metrics identified in the report at the county level, useful for creating hot spot maps for targeted outreach
Population Health Profiler – a service area analysis tool that integrates community characteristics to clinical records
Healthcare Workforce Mapper – visualize the geographic distribution of physicians and non-physician clinicians at a state or county level
PLACES Mapper – provides small area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use
Healthcare Workforce Mapper – visualize the geographic distribution of physicians and non-physician clinicians at a state or county level

In addition to the resources available online, we’ve provided a collection of downloadable maps covering a small selection of public health and socioeconomic concerns for counties or ZCTAs in Missouri and Illinois. These maps are among the most commonly requested subjects but only represent a fraction of the possibilities for data visualization and geographic analysis.

Maternal Health
Women Ages 15-50 in Poverty with Birth in the Past 12 Months, Family Physicians and OB/GYNs
Women Ages 15-50 in Poverty with Birth in the Past 12 Months, Birth Centers and Hospitals

Socioeconomic Issues
Social Deprivation Index
Percent of Population Not Employed
Percent of Population Low Income
Percent of Population with Less Than High School Education
Percent of Population Without Broadband Internet

Health Issues
Percent of Adults with No Dental Visit in Past Year
Percent of Adults with High Blood Pressure
Percent of Adults with Diabetes
Percent of Adults who Currently Smoke
Percent of Adults who are Obese
Percent of Adults who Delayed Care Due to Cost
Number of Drug Poisoning Deaths
Age-Adjusted Mortality Rate