New Online Tool Provides Health Snapshot of All 435 U.S. Congressional Districts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), unveiled the Congressional District Health Dashboard (CDHD), a new online tool that provides critical health data for all 435 congressional districts and the District of Columbia. The dashboard incorporates 36 key measures of health, such as deaths from cardiovascular disease and breast cancer, along with conditions that affect health, like housing affordability and access to nutritious foods. Until now, most of these data were not available at the congressional district level, nor were they compiled in a single location or easily available to the public.
Key Points:
- The Congressional District Health Dashboard Can Inform Policymaker Action to Eliminate Wide Disparities in Premature Death, Mental Health, Childhood Poverty, Broadband Access, and More
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), unveiled the Congressional District Health Dashboard (CDHD), a new online tool that provides critical health data for all 435 congressional districts and the District of Columbia. - The Congressional District Health Dashboard's data reveal stark geographic, and racial and ethnic differences in health and wellbeing across congressional districts in the United States.
- In fact, residents of congressional districts in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas on average are almost 3.5 times more likely to be uninsured than those in congressional districts in New England.
- On average, Hispanic residents have the highest rates of uninsurance in most congressional districts across the country.