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US Health Map Overview and Tutorial

http://vizhub.healthdata.org/subnational/usa

Overview

The US Health Map tool, created by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), provides impressive online data visualization capabilities for mortality, life expectancy, and risk factor data across the United States. The underlying datasets are part of the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx), a catalog of data compiled and managed by IHME. This catalog aims to gather and standardize world-wide public health data generated both by IHME initiatives and outside sources. The US Health Map tool uses a subset of this data catalog to allow for the visualization of health trends across the United States.

Features

Tutorial

Ideas

  1. Select your home county or county of interest.

  2. Look up something about the trend

  3. Look up info about the data used in the visualization.

Data Download and Analysis

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). US Health Map. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington, 2016. Available from http://vizhub.healthdata.org/subnational/usa.

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