Food Insecurity, 2018

This layer displays information about the prevalence of food insecurity by County, throughout the United States. This data is acquired from Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap hunger study. Data are estimates generated by Feeding America, using inputs from multiple data sources, including the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and…

New data! Data updated for hospital discharge indicators sourced from the California Office of Statewide Planning and Health (OSHPD) Public Patient Discharge Data files (CA Service Areas only).

Data for survey years 2010-2011 acquired from OSHPD (replacing data for survey year 2010 alone). Improved data processing techniques now generate crude and age-adjusted discharge rates per 10,000 population for select patient conditions. Indicator tables continue to report condition-specific discharge events as a percentage of total patient discharges by age, gender, race, and ethnicity groupings….

New Maps and data now available for Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Score

New data available for RSEI Scores by state and county for the year 2019. A RSEI Score is a unitless value that accounts for the size of the chemical release, the fate and transport of the chemical through the environment, the size and location of the exposed population, and the chemical’s toxicity. RSEI scores are…

New maps and data now available for mortality indicators from the CDC WONDER Underlying Cause of Death Database.

New 5-year mortality rates for 2015-2019 are now available (replacing data for 2014-2018). Affected indicators: Health Outcomes Deaths of Despair (Suicide + Drug/Alcohol Poisoning) Mortality – Cancer Mortality – Heart Disease Mortality – Homicide Mortality – Coronary Heart Disease Mortality – Poisoning Mortality – Lung Disease Mortality – Motor Vehicle Crash Mortality – Opioid Overdose…