New Tool Provides Population Health Insights in US Congressional Districts
Health IT Analytics January 25, 2023
The Congressional District Health Dashboard is designed to provide policymakers and the public with actionable and nonpartisan health data at the congressional district level.
Researchers from New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) unveiled the Congressional District Health Dashboard (CDHD), an online data tool that provides health data for all 435 US congressional districts and the District of Columbia.
According to the press release, the tool incorporates 36 critical measures of health and its drivers, such as deaths from breast cancer and cardiovascular disease, diabetes rates, housing affordability, and access to nutritious foods. Until now, much of these data were difficult for the public to access or unavailable at the congressional district...