GIS Data and Mapping for Community Health

Tackling community health challenges neighborhood by neighborhood

"PolicyMap serves as our one-stop shop for a wide variety of data sources and indicators—all on a user-friendly, multifunctional platform. It has enhanced our process and reduced the time required by staff to collect reliable, accurate and usable information for our strategic deliverables."

—Valerie Hayes, Planning Manager at Community Hospital Corporation

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University of Texas School of Public Health

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PolicyMap for Community Health

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Use PolicyMap as a single point of entry to evaluate trends, access benchmarks, and strategically target interventions designed to improve health outcomes. Have access to easy-to-use mapping tools for data on social determinants of health, health outcomes, housing and environmental conditions, and more.

By using exclusive data at the census tract and zip code geographic level, you can gain insights to specific neighborhoods that aren't possible with county-level data alone.

Simplify Community Health Needs Assessments

Create instant reports describing the people your hospital, system, or locality supports and bring insights to your Community Health Needs Assessment with our Community Health Report. Check out a sample PDF.

See how Pima County, Arizona used PolicyMap for their Community Health Assessment.

Understand social determinants of health

Improve health outcomes by understanding the socioeconomic conditions and other social determinants of health in the communities in which you work.

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Locate partners and community assets

Identify existing community assets such as housing providers, schools, supermarkets, clinics, and others with whom to partner on your initiatives.

Leverage additional funding opportunities

Identify additional types of funding in your area such as Opportunity Zone or CRA Eligible census tracts.

Published Papers

Researchers and academics regularly rely on PolicyMap's data for their publications. Here are just a few:

- Process Evaluation of Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities: A Rural Community-Based Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program (Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior)

- PolicyMap: Mapping Social Determinants of Health (Medical Reference Services Quarterly)

- Recommendation of PolicyMap (Journal of the Medical Library Association)

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Data for Community Health

PolicyMap contains a wide array of community level health data, ranging from incidence of diseases and chronic conditions, to locations of health infrastructure, to key social determinants of health. Valuable data is available at the census tract and zip code level, for neighborhood-level insights.

Life expectancy

Insured and uninsured populations

Opioid use

People with disabilities

Exclusively on PolicyMap:

Medical spending

Risk factors

PolicyMap's expert data team uses advanced small-area estimate methodology to generate data at the census tract and zip code level, which gives insights into specific neighborhoods that aren't available with county-level data available elsewhere.

...and much more

Customer Story

Northwell Health

Social determinants of health are an underlying factor affecting the sustained health of individuals served by Northwell Health. To address these neighborhood-level determinants, Northwell’s Community Health team sought a way to locate and quantify the effects of various determinants on patient health. Using accessible, curated data from PolicyMap, Northwell is developing end-to-end individual and community level social vulnerability risk indices to better inform both providers and patients to improve health in communities in their service area.