Health Matters: October 2024

by PolicyMap Team
FEATURED POST

Prepare For Hurricanes with Data on Resiliency and Vulnerability

As the United States braced for Hurricane Ian to make landfall this week, our team thought about the emergency management officials readying to respond. A number of indicators in PolicyMap can help emergency management officials identify which communities may have the most difficulty dealing with the natural disaster, including the Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) and the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI).

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ON THE BLOG

Lead Exposure Risk in Your Neighborhood

Nearly a decade after the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, lead contamination remains a nationwide issue. To help concerned residents, public health officials, and local organizations identify neighborhoods that might be at a higher risk of exposure to lead, we added an up-to-date Lead Exposure Risk Index to show estimated exposure at the census tract level.

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Heatwave

Which Communities Are Most At-Risk When Air Quality Diminishes?

As the wildfires in Canada affect the air quality in the northeast, doctors warn that some groups are more susceptible to becoming ill and may need treatment in emergency rooms. PolicyMap data can help locate at-risk populations.

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Updated Data

Data from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) on Medically Underserved Areas (MUA) is now updated on PolicyMap for 2024. This dataset includes information about medically underserved areas & populations, as well as an index of medical underservice score provided by HRSA.

The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Medicare annual data has been updated to 2022.

PolicyMap and Quantitative Innovations’ Consumer Spending Habits and Medical Spending Estimates data have been updated to 2022.

USDA Rural Development’s Multifamily Property and Guaranteed Loan point data has been updated to 2024.

The free and reduced-price lunch program (FRPL) eligibility data has been updated through the 2020-21 School Year.

The National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) point datasets for Private Schools has been updated for the 2021-2022 School Year.

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 anesearchers using PolicyMap.

Relationship between Neighborhood-Level Social Risk Factor Measures and Presenting Glaucoma Severity Utilizing Multilevel Modeling published in National Library of Medicine

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