Health Matters: May 2024

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Improving Health Outcomes by Investing in Affordable Housing

Health and healthcare organizations seeking to improve health outcomes while reducing costs are prioritizing investments in Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). With nonprofit location data from Candid available in PolicyMap, finding local nonprofits with whom to partner in neighborhoods across the country has never been easier.

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CUSTOMER STORY

St. Petersburg Housing Authority

As home prices surge and rents increase, growing parts of the country have become unaffordable for renters. Cities around the country are devising new strategies to create more affordable housing opportunities to combat the escalating housing crisis and rising homelessness among seniors. Current data shows us why.

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Where Elderly Americans Struggle to Find Affordable Housing

As home prices surge and rents increase, growing parts of the country have become unaffordable for renters. Cities around the country are devising new strategies to create more affordable housing opportunities to combat the escalating housing crisis and rising homelessness among seniors. Current data shows us why.

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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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Updated Data

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration data is now updated to 2022.

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) credit union branches point dataset have been updated as of 2023. The points show where federal credit unions are located in the U.S. and provide information about the individual sites (name, address, financial/lending info, etc.) and details about the specific credit union (number of employees, number of members, and services).

The HRSA Area Health Resource File (AHRF) data is updated to 2022. The data now covers topics related to access to medical care, including medical professionals, hospital utilization, including emergency department utilization and hospital inpatient and outpatient days, and types of health facilities.

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) opioid-related hospital use data have been updated as of 2021. The layer data shows opioid-related hospital stays and emergency department visits for available states and settings of care as well as for specific patient characteristics.

The CDFI Fund’s Certified CDFI point dataset have been updated on production as of March 2024. The points show where Certified CDFI organizations are located, the type of organization, and if it is a native CDFI.

Low-Income Communities and Non-Urban Areas which are geographic eligibility criteria for the Electric Vehicle Refueling Tax Credit as part of the IRA have been updated following new guidance from IRS/Treasury and updated data from the Dept of Energy. These indicators are only available in the Collection of Clean Energy Tax Incentives Data.

The FDIC Bank Branches dataset has been updated on PolicyMap.

HUD’s Picture of Subsidized Housing (POSH) data has been updated to 2023. This update adds new data for 2022 and 2023, and includes data from 2009-2013.

Pharmacy locations have been updated on PolicyMap

Retail health clinic locations have been updated on PolicyMap.

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).

In case you missed it

Published Research
Explore scholarly works from students and researchers using PolicyMap.

Association between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Prevalence Among U.S. Veterans, published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

County-level factors associated with a mismatch between opioid overdose mortality and availability of opioid treatment facilities, published in PLOS.

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