Data2go.nyc

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The platform allows users to map a number of New York City-related health variables, such as deaths from cancer or pre-term births, against demographic indicators such as race, income and education level. A holistic understanding of the relation between health and identity is invaluable to policymakers in the fight to ensure that the neediest populations in a city are served. The platform's measures The American Human Development Index, a composite well-being measure made up of health, education, and income indicators; it is expressed on a ten-point scale, and 10 is the highest score possible. Users can search by individual indicator or by neighborhood and each neighborhood has overall rating. 

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Dataset(s): Measure of America's indexes, including US Census, departments of education, immigration, 3-1-1, city budgets, police department, voting records

Visualization: Map, Dashboard

Jurisdiction: New York City

Developed by: Measure of America

The Nexus Between Data and Public Health

January 24, 2017 Public Health This post originally appeared in Stephen Goldsmith's Better Faster Cheaper blog on Governing.com. In the not-so-distant past, government's involvement in community health generally was limited to providing services for...
NYC map with highlights to show that the areas can be categories by race/ethnicity, safety, and other measurements

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