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Rural Community Development (RCD) Project Highlights Map
Provides a snapshot of Rural Community Development (RCD) projects that provide clean and safe water and wastewater practices by state. Includes U.S. map that depicts the 6 regions collaborating with the RCD program.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Administration for Children and Families
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Rural Community Development (RCD) Grant Recipient Spotlights
Presents Rural Community Development (RCD) grant recipient stories about how they developed clean and safe water and wastewater practices in their rural and/or tribal communities. Includes video testimonials from RCD project sites across the United States that discuss the impact of water/wastewater programs in their locality.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Administration for Children and Families
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Health Professional Shortage Areas: Louisiana
Provides information and definitions on Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs), and Medically Underserved Populations (MUPs), as well as related HPSA opportunities and healthcare facilities. Includes county-level maps of primary care, dental, and mental HPSAs in Louisiana.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Louisiana Department of Health
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Medicaid/CHIP Coverage by School Districts, 2018-2022
Provides data on the percent of children covered by Medicaid/CHIP by school district, with separate, searchable lists for each state.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Georgetown University Health Policy Institute
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Access Broadband Dashboard
An interactive county-level U.S. map that shows how broadband infrastructure may impact local economies. Provides percentage of households with a broadband subscription as well as data on on employment, small business establishments, wages and income, poverty, home values, population change and migration, educational attainment, and gross domestic product (GDP).
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Census Bureau
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Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) California Data Dashboards
Provides data on issues such as maternal health and prenatal care, breastfeeding and infant mortality, adverse childhood experiences, adolescent births, and more. Includes demographic data, breakdowns by county, and rural versus urban location in several categories.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: California Department of Public Health
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Understanding Firearm Deaths by State—and How to Reduce Them
Provides data on firearm violence, gun polices, and firearm laws by state. Includes a map allowing users to select variables such as firearm deaths, homicides, and suicides, broken down by sex, race/ethnicity, age, and urban versus nonurban.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: RAND Corporation
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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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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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