Treating the Whole Community: Addressing Social Drivers of Health
Health care providers and government agencies can benefit from knowing more about the communities they serve. They can address issues unique to low-income patients and other groups with specific needs, improving outcomes and lowering medical costs. Using a data-driven approach to public health, they can successfully implement targeted health interventions, while lowering costs.
Join us for our next Mapchats webinar to learn about how to use data to address health disparities. On December 12th at 2:00 PM EST , we’ll hear from two practitioners and researchers who will talk about ways that they’re using community level data to improve public health: Sarah Dixon from the Iowa Primary Care Association and Amy Carroll-Scott from Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health.
Track Housing Trends with New PolicyMap Data Made Possible by Zillow
When looking at neighborhood issues like affordability, displacement and stability, perhaps the most important data to consider is home sales.
Federal Historic Tax Credits: Exploring Their Impact
Understand the impacts of the Federal Historic Tax Credit program in light of the recent tax reform.
Knowing Life Expectancy to Improve Public Health
Where someone is born can predict how long they’ll live. This isn’t fate. Knowing where life expectancies are short is the first step to extending lives.
Read PolicyMap’s recent white paper, Do Our Zip Codes Need to Determine Our Health?
PolicyMap’s founder and president Maggie McCullough was interviewed by Storybench .
North Carolina Housing Finance Agency uses an interactive map from PolicyMap to show evictions and foreclosures in the state.
A research report by the Urban Institute on using housing code enforcement to improve public health uses PolicyMap to look at rates of asthma, diabetes, and lack of health insurance coverage around Memphis.
Webinar: Easy Data Visualization for Public Libraries