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Resources by Topic: Statistics and data

Community Connector: Visualize Social Determinants of Health Scores
Open-sourced tool presents community demographics, social needs, and health outcomes by county in Colorado. Allows users to compare similar counties and select several measures of social determinants of health and health outcomes.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Mathematica
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Kansas HPSA Map
A county-level interactive map that shows primary care, mental, and dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) in Kansas. Includes information on mental health catchment areas and HPSA designation status. Allows user to search HPSAs by inputting a specific address.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Uninsured Rates, Behavior, and Mental Health
Offers user access to state and county specific data comparing the uninsured population rate with poor mental health, excessive drinking, unemployment, and household income.
Additional links: Uninsured Rates Behavior and Mental Health 2022 Excel file, Uninsured Rates, Behavior, and Mental Health Tutorial Video
Type: Tool
Sponsoring organizations: National Rural Health Resource Center, Technical Assistance and Services Center
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Rural Data Gateway
An information and data portal supporting USDA Rural Development (RD) partnerships with rural communities, entrepreneurs, and government by providing access to RD's financial support in rural America. Offers Rural Investment Dashboards highlighting RD programs and investments to help people in vulnerable rural communities access needed resources for housing, infrastructure, local business, and community development. Data also assists users when analyzing RD investment trends in states, counties, and congressional districts.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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Missouri Hospital Association Health Equity Dashboards
A dashboard that provides county-level data on health disparities in Missouri, including social determinants of health (SDOH), maternal and child health, risk behaviors, health outcomes, physical health and disease status, behavioral health, and frailty/disabilities. User can select for race/ethnicity and one or more counties for data.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Hospital Association
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Behavioral Health Care Managers: An Approach to Integrating Behavioral Health in Rural Primary Care Practices
Describes the benefits of integrating behavioral healthcare into rural primary care practice to improve access to mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, and improve health outcomes. Highlights the role of a behavioral health care manager (BHCM) to screen and monitor patients, coordinate care with other healthcare providers, track treatment response, and recommend patient medications. Discusses the advantage of providing behavioral healthcare via telehealth, and importance of establishing clinical support and guidance for the BHCM.
Author(s): George Nasra
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: University of Rochester Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence
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Transportation and Health Status
Analyzes the relationship between access to transportation and health status. Provides data on physical and mental health related to vehicle availability, with data broken down by state and county and categorized as metro, nonmetro cities, and nonmetro towns.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Resource Center
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Michigan Overdose Data to Action Dashboard
An interactive tool that shows Michigan overdose data along with community resources and social determinants of health. Includes information on mortality, treatment episodes, naloxone orders/sites, opioid prescriptions, buprenorphine prescriptions, and more. Provides data by month, quarter, year, race/ethnicity, and county.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
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Bureau of Health Workforce Field Strength and Students and Trainees Dashboards
Data tools and information related to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program participants. Allows users to access subsets of data by filtering on various program, location, shortage designation, and site attributes, including rural location. Offers insight into disciplines and school locations of future clinicians preparing to serve in shortage areas across the country.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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SparkMap's Community Assessment Tool
Allows user to select data indicators such as demographics, economics, housing, education, health behaviors and indicators, healthcare workforce, and more by state and county to create a community assessment report. Utilizes data from multiple geographical levels and housed with the US Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Transportation, and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Center for Applied Research and Engagement Systems
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