HealthLandscape specializes in creating data portals that make community data accessible, updatable, and interactive. (Check out our website for a few featured portals.) The West Virginia Data Portal displays community indicators related to population, children and youth, educational attainment, health, and economy. The map above shows two indicators: per capita market income for 2009 (left)...

The American Academy of Family Physicians’ Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care publicly launched the Med School Mapper project back in November, 2010 Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation (for details, please refer to the initial annoucement here). We are now scheduling webinars to showcase this unique tool. The first webinar...

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...

Economic Status Data are now available for fiscal years 2010 and 2011. The Appalachian region is home to 24.8 million people and consists of 420 counties across 13 states, stretching from New York and Pennsylvania in the northeast to Mississippi and Alabama in the south. Forty-two percent of the Region’s population is rural, compared with...

(Originally posted by Mark Carrozza at http://blogs.healthfoundation.org/HealthLandscape) It’s been said “If a picture paints a thousand words, then a map paints a thousand pictures.” That’s 1,000,000 words. Imagine the stories you can tell with maps! Welcome to the HealthLandscape Blog. In the coming months, we’ll be introducing you to the features and data available in...