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HealthLandscape is dedicated not only to data democratization and data visualization, but also to research related to health, health care and social determinants of health. We are actively researching how our social circumstances affect our health and access to health care, applying geospatial and statistical techniques to help answer questions about disparities in health outcomes, and creating new visualization methods.

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COVID-19 and Health Center Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates

03/16/2022, , , no comments
  A recent White House press release describes President Biden’s efforts to reignite Cancer Moonshot, a campaign he launched in 2016 as Vice President. This program invested almost $2 billion in cancer research with a goal to reduce cancer death rates by more than 50%...

Health Centers, COVID-19 Vaccination Rates, and Vaccine Hesitancy

03/09/2022, , , no comments
  Despite the fact that nearly two-thirds of the total U.S. population have been fully vaccinated (two doses) against COVID-19, these numbers are much lower in specific parts of the U.S. For example, according to the New York Times, only 50% of Alabamians and Wyomingites...

COVID-19 Mortality and Social Deprivation

03/02/2022, , , no comments
Research shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has widened gaps in health equity across the U.S. A national survey by the Morehouse School of Medicine shows that decreases in access to care have contributed to increases in health disparities for the most vulnerable populations. The survey...

The Scariest Math Imaginable

01/12/2021no comments
This math is sobering: COVID-19 Cases 1/11/2021: 22,429,685 COVID-19 Deaths 1/11/2021: 374,521 Percent of Cases resulting in death 1.67% US Population: 330,808,016 70% of US Population, the population that would need to be infected to reach natural Herd Immunity: 231,565,611 Number of possible COVID-19 deaths...

Mapping High-Risk Areas for COVID-19

05/07/2020, no comments
HealthLandscape has developed a set of online mapping tools (Mapping High Risk Areas for COVID-19) to help states and metropolitan areas identify high risk populations for severe illness from COVID-19. The tools are based on the number of COVID-19 cases by county and factors that...
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