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Interactive map helps point way to good health
EHR Connection, November 5, 2007
Just how healthy are residents of California's four-county Capital Region?
The answer is a mere mouse-click away on a Web site that features an interactive health map that allows visitors to formulate queries, compare data, assemble charts and tables, and obtain information about the region's health assets.
Every three years, four nonprofit health systems in the Sacramento area-Catholic Healthcare West, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, and UC Davis Health System-conduct a community needs assessment to guide local health programs. The data is available online in a "Healthy Living Map" to increase its accessibility and usefulness to the healthcare providers and the general public, according to the Web site.
The participating healthcare organizations gather demographic data and information about health insurance status, and rates of youth obesity, hospitalization, emergency room visits by disease, and deaths in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo counties. Visitors to the Web site can use these topics to formulate queries for specified counties or ZIP codes. The overlay maps they create in the process offer snapshots of a neighborhood's health.
Click here to visit the "Healthy Living Map."
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