October 2018 Newsletter POLICYMAP WHITEPAPER Do Our Zip Codes Need to Determine Our Health? Perhaps the greatest predictor of our health is where we live. Learn five ways to use data on maps to improve health outcomes and decrease costs. Download our whitepaper Urban Development Severe Storms Disproportionately Affect Vulnerable Populations See where Hurricane Michael and other natural disasters are inflicting damage on struggling communities. Read More Good Government How Opportunity Zones Can Expand Access to Fresh Food Opportunity Zones can help grocery stores move into underserved communities. Read More Healthy Communities Higher Opioid Prescription Rates Don’t Mean More Drug Overdoses The story of opioid addiction is not simple. The various types of opioids and their availability tell vastly different stories of the opioid epidemic across the US. Read More How Community Hospital Corporation Combines Data To Improve Community Health How Public Health and Sociology Professors Teach Maps and Data The Federal Depository Library Conference: “Using PolicyMap To Access Federal Data” presentation by John Stevenson, University of Delaware PolicyMap at the 2018 Charleston Conference 1-866-923-MAPS (6277) | info@policymap.com ©2018 PolicyMap
