3 Reasons We’re Excited About the Future of Public Health
This year’s National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Conference brought together professionals to reflect on the challenges and possibilities of the public health landscape.
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Empowering Communities through Health Equity Zones
Data is in the Chicago Department of Public Health’s DNA. They collect, curate and share valuable data every day to drive deeper insights and empower creative strategies to close the racial life expectancy gap.
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Education as a path to success for teen moms
Can we tackle generational poverty by investing in college degree persistence and achievement for young moms? New Moms collaborated with Metopio to explore this question for National Teen Pregnancy Awareness Month.
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Black Maternal Health Week
Bringing a new life into the world should be a safe and joyful experience for all. Can data help make that possible?
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Is transportation a barrier to good health?
Maybe you have an hour commute to work. The nearest grocery store is two neighborhoods away. Your chemotherapy appointments at the hospital are every day at 8 am next week across town.
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First look at pandemic impacts with 2016-2020 ACS data
When was the last time you had 213 topics from the American Community Survey (ACS) at your fingertips in three business days?
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What can crime data really tell us?
A safe neighborhood allows us to walk to school, exercise, visit with neighbors and simply get outside. These all impact our health and mental well-being.
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What to consider in the 2020 Census data
Every ten years since 1790, the government has collected data as required by the Constitution. The very first one consisted of only six questions of 3.9 million people and was used to apportion seats in the House of Representatives.
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Can we tackle health and economic disparities through literacy?
Yes. The benefits of being able to read and comprehend math impact health, well-being and the economy. The U.S. Department of Education estimates that 130 million Americans struggle to read a basic sentence.
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How does oral health relate to chronic disease?
A growing body of evidence has linked oral health, particularly periodontal or gum disease, to several chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
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Impact of Air Pollution on Diverse Communities
We are constantly updating Metopio’s curated data sets to offer opportunities to understand how the places and populations you care about are impacted. This analysis tackles air quality.
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COVID-19 Insight: Who benefits from a phased approach to vaccines?
The Biden Administration has set a goal of 100 million vaccines in the first 100 days. Individual states have set up programs to administer the vaccines, and each state’s program is different.
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Is Housing Affordability a Health Barometer?
What happens if you have to work 95 hours a week at minimum wage to afford a place to live? Even before COVID-19, housing affordability was a challenge.
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How does public transportation ridership relate to COVID-19 cases?
Many Chicagoans use public transportation to get them to and from work. Could increased time on buses and trains have predictive value?
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New CDC Data: Infectious Diseases
Over a dozen new infectious disease topics from 2000-2018 help you explore their correlation to COVID and more.
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Is your COVID-19 risk higher where air quality is bad?
Harvard University identified a connection between the COVID-19 death rate and air quality. What other respiratory factors should be considered?
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COVID-19 Insight: Why rates matter
COVID-19 data has a lot of noise. There are many variations on how the data is reported across jurisdictions with respect to the number of cases, deaths and tests.
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UIC School of Public Health’s Social Vulnerability Index
Using the CDC and Prevention Social Vulnerability Index as a baseline, the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health dives deeper.
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UIC School of Public Health’s Risk Factor Score
Thoughtful data analysis to help understand COVID-19 health risk in Illinois communities development by the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.
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Can we predict where the pandemic will spread next?
By automating data discovery, find similarities between places can help identify patterns that might not be readily apparent.
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