This document discusses using data to understand and improve community health. It outlines how analyzing social determinants of health like income, education, housing, and access to food and healthcare at the zip code level can help identify health disparities. The document provides examples of data that can be mapped, like rates of poverty, income inequality, affordable housing, educational attainment, reading proficiency, food access, life expectancy, rates of uninsured individuals, opioid prescription rates, and medically underserved areas. The goal is to understand how community and social factors shape health outcomes and identify vulnerable populations.

1. Inform Decision Making and Policy Solutions
Using Data to Visualize Community Health

2. Zip code better predictor of health than genetic code
• Melody Goodman, PhD.
Washington University in St.
Louis presents Missouri’s
Delmar Divide to show the
link between segregation and
poor health
• Residents to the north less
likely to have a bachelor’s
degree and more likely to
have heart disease or cancer
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3. Your Zip Code Determines Your Health.
Here’s How to Improve the Prognosis.
2018 | Quarter 4
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5. Understand Community Health
• Social Determinants of Health – WHO “The social
determinants of health are the conditions in which people
are born, grow, live, work and age. These circumstances are
shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources
at global, national and local levels.”
• Demographics
• Incomes & Spending
• Housing
• Quality of Life
• Education
• Health
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6. Demographic Data
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7. Incomes & Spending
• Mapping Poverty
• Persistent Poverty Tracts
• Gini Index of Income Inequality
• Minimum Wage
• Medically Underserved Areas
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8. Persistent Poverty in Dayton
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9. Gini Index of Inequality: Dayton
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10. Housing
• Home Vacancies
• Affordability
• Gentrification
• Housing Quality
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11. Affordability - Cost Burdens
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13. Home Age
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14. Education
• Educational Attainment
• Public Schools: Enrollment and Demographics
• Civil Rights Data Collection includes student suspensions,
expulsions, and SAT takers, all of which are relevant to questions
about equity
• Great Schools
• Reading Proficiency
• School age children in poverty
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Educational Attainment

16. School Age Children in Poverty
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17. Reading Proficiency
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18. Food
• Access to Healthy Food
• Identifying Food Deserts
• Low Income/Low Access Tracts
• WIC/SNAP Recipients
• Fast Food, Supermarkets, Farmers Markets
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20. Healthcare
• Life Expectancy
• BRFSS and 500 Cities data
• Healthcare Uninsured https://plcy.mp/M2Mw3Zw
• Healthy Food and LSA - Jacksonville with Grocery
Retail Locations
• Medically Underserved
• Opioids
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21. Understand Community Health
• Health Status
• Perceived (BRFSS)
• CDC 500 Cities
• Health facilities/providers
• Hospitals, Community Health Centers
• Mental health treatment
• Drug and Alcohol treatment
• Buprenorphine physicians
• Advanced practice nurses
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22. Opioid Data
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23. Opioid Prescription Rates
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24. Medically Underserved
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27. Community and Social Context
• Social Integration i.e. predominant racial ethnic group
• Economic integration, GINI Index
• Social Needs Index - Using the Social Needs Index to
identify vulnerable populations
• Opportunity Zones
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Social Needs Index

29. Community Health Report
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