Newsletter: January 2025

FEATURED POST

Digging Deeper: Mapping Maternal Health

Maternal health is a pressing issue in the United States, highlighted by decreases in obstetric services and increasing maternal morbidity. PolicyMap users can integrate datasets like area demographics, chronic health conditions, deprivation indexes, and poverty rates with Surgo Health’s Granular Maternal Vulnerability Index (gMVI) for a nuanced understanding of maternal health challenges. Explore how this powerful tool can improve help outcomes and advance equitable care.

ON THE BLOG

Understanding Where Maternal Vulnerability is Greatest in the United States

Healthcare for women has been a longstanding problem in the United States for numerous reasons including cost, access, insurance coverage, and state and federal policies. In 2022, over 22 women died for every 100,000 live births. Explore the data behind this urgent public health crisis.

PolicyMap and Surgo Health Partner to Drive Awareness of the Critical State of Maternal Care in the U.S.

Announcing the integration of Surgo Health’s Granular Maternity Vulnerability Index (gMVI) into PolicyMap’s platform. This collaboration empowers users to visualize maternal health vulnerabilities alongside social determinants of health data, enabling targeted interventions to address disparities and improve maternal outcomes across the U.S.

CUSTOMER STORY

Vitamin Angels

Vitamin Angels is a global public health nonprofit, addressing malnutrition in pregnant women and children by providing proven nutrition solutions to underserved communities. With PolicyMap, they developed a zip code scoring system to identify areas with the greatest lack of access to prenatal care.

Home sales quarterly data has been updated for 2024, Quarter 3. This data is available to premium subscribers only.

STI data from the CDC has been updated to 2023. This includes data on the cases and rates of Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydia.

The CDFI Investment data was updated to 2021.

IRS Statistics of Income (Individual Income Tax Statistics) data has been updated to 2021.

The 119th Congressional Districts were added to the Boundaries menu.

Natality data from the CDC has been updated to 2023.

The HMDA home mortgage dataset from FFIEC is now updated to 2023.

CDFI Fund Persistent Poverty Counties data has been updated to the latest 2024 release.

HIV diagnoses and prevalence data from the CDC has been updated to 2022.

The FFIEC HMDA (Home Mortgage and Disclosure Act) data has been updated to 2023. However, this update also includes a small refresh of our historic data to ensure that this dataset will be easier to maintain going forward. We now only show data starting in 2007 since that is the earliest date the FFIEC has data available online.

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).

Published Research

Explore scholarly works from students and researchers using PolicyMap.

Unincorporation in counties as a political determinant of health: An exploration of five states, published in ScienceDirect

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ER&L 20th Annual Library Conference
March 23-26, 2025
Austin, TX

PolicyMap is excited to return to the annual conference hosted by Electronic Resources and Libraries. Join us and explore the latest trends, technologies, e-resource management, and digital services in libraries. Stop by booth #403 to learn more about our geographic data offerings!

Newsletter: January 2025

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