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Navigating the Silence: Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Older Adults
Recent data highlights the severe health impacts of social isolation and loneliness, particularly among low-income, underserved, and vulnerable subpopulations. Learn how to use PolicyMap to visualize the impacts of social isolation and explore the intersectionality of multiple risk factors.
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Disconnected Youth: A Geographic View into the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Young people in America are facing a mental health crisis. To help organizations and researchers digging deeper into this alarming trend, PolicyMap added indicators from the Census ACS related to Disconnected Youth that show the estimated percent of people 16 to 19 years old who were not enrolled in school and were unemployed or not in the labor force.
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Improve Health Equity with Social Determinants of Health Data
We’ve simplified the collection of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) data through a comprehensive database of the non-medical factors influencing health outcomes and risks.
Interoperable and standardized, the collection includes indicators for Life Expectancy and Mortality, Health and Healthcare Landscape, Infrastructure and Built Environment, Community and Social Context, Food and Nutrition, Education, Healthy Assets and Opportunities, Financial Stability, and Environmental Hazards.
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North Carolina Healthcare Foundation
“PolicyMap is really helpful in removing the lag between identifying sources for publicly available data and gaining insights through the identification of service gaps in specific geographies.” –Senior Program Manager, Research and Policy at NCHF
North Carolina Healthcare Foundation (NCHF) is on a mission to improve the health of their communities and make high-quality healthcare equitable and accessible for all. PolicyMap enables the foundation to source and analyze neighborhood-level data, identify gaps in service, and focus on areas with the most need.
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Owner and Renter Affordability has been updated on PolicyMap.
Predominant Race/Ethnicity has been updated on PolicyMap.
The updated Theil Index is now on PolicyMap. The Theil Index measures racial segregation by calculating how evenly people of all races are concentrated across an area based on the racial composition of sub-areas.
HUD’s Multifamily and Public CMS Chronic Conditions data update is now live on production. This update adds new data for 2019-2021 and includes two additional indicators (i.e., Alcohol Use Disorder and Drug Use Disorder) that were previously not being displayed.
The BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAU) data has been updated for the months of December 2023 – February 2024 along with the preliminary March data. The annual data has been updated for 2023 (which includes a refresh of all years with BLS final revision on April 19, 2024).
Indicators for CRA Eligibility and Tract Median Family Income (MFI) as a % of Metro Area Median Income which come from FFIEC and are used for the CRA program have been updated in PolicyMap to 2024. This update accounts for the 2022 Connecticut County boundary changes and 2023 Metro Area and Metro Division boundary changes which affect the Tract MFI % calculation.
Census ACS Low Mod has been updated to 2018-2022.
Home sales quarterly data has been updated for 2024, Quarter 1.
The Small Business Administration 7(a) loan data has been updated through 2024 and underwent a huge overhaul. PolicyMap has added nearly a million more loans by increasing our efforts to de-duplicate, expand geocoding, and deep data cleansing.
Retail health clinic locations from Data Axle have been updated on PolicyMap.
CMS Hospital Compare point dataset has been updated in PolicyMap to 2023.
An additional 30+ indicators from the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) are now live on PolicyMap! The new indicators provide further information on the specific criteria that determines disadvantaged status for each of the eight categories of burden.
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) Distressed Counties data has been updated to 2023.
The Great Schools data has been updated to 2024. This update includes school locations, test scores, Great Schools rankings, and calculated distance to high-performing schools.
Distressed Area data from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has been updated to 2024.
We are committed to our promise of curated, cleaned, standardized, and always updated data. We’re posting real-time updates on our website and X (formerly known as Twitter).
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Published Research
Explore scholarly works from students and researchers using PolicyMap.
The role of area deprivation index in health care disruptions among cancer survivors during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic published in National Library of Medicine
Place-Based Measures of Inequity and Vision Difficulty and Blindness published in National Library of Medicine
Determining the Impact of Social Determinants of Health in the Prevalence of Diabetes in the Mid-Atlantic Area published by University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
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Join Us!
Rock Health Summit
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
San Francisco, CA
PolicyMap is thrilled to be a partner of the 2024 Rock Health Summit, a digital health conference that brings together diverse minds from technology, medicine, public health, and beyond for a day of inspired conversation and connection.
Want to join us? Find more registration details here!
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