PolicyMap is an data and mapping tool for accessing data about communities across the U.S. to make better-informed decisions without any prior experience.
Social Explorer provides access to current and historical census data and demographic information. Create maps and reports to better illustrate, analyze and understand demography and social change.
Key content in Social Explorer includes: over 40 billion data elements, 200,000 variables; 18,000 interactive maps; the entire US Census from 1790 to the present as it is available; annual updates from the American Community Survey; InfoGroup data on religious congregations; Religious Congregations and Membership Study; and Carbon Emissions Data. Users can create custom maps, download data, and export, save, and print maps and reports.
Underserved Health Communities is a resource tool developed by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to facilitate knowledge and resources relevant to medically underserved areas (MUAs) in the Greater Midwest Region.
A regularly performed community health assessment and planning process in Illinois.
# An online website, IPLAN Data System, has been created based on this data and offers a customizeable data report system containing 102 health indicators.
A versitile site from the Kaiser Family Fountation that allows comparisions of the 50 U.S. states plus U.S. territories in a variety of demographic categories, health status, health coverage, etc. Minority & Women's health are also special topics. Information can be displayed as bar graphs, tables, or color-coded maps. States can be compared to the national average or to all states.
This web site has gives state specific information from 2006 onward on overall health care quality. The information for each state shows the strengths and weaknesses and suggestions for improvement in areas such as Acute, Chronic, and Preventive Care, Settings of Care such as Hospitals and Nursing Homes, and more.