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Statewide data, with some local data sources, on health, economy education, business, and other social determinants of health. Please note that you can try the search term "open data portal" for any state/county/town to see what is available. Description: Maryland's Open Data Program provides transparency so that businesses, residents, visitors, and civil servants can use state data to aid in decision making. The transparency of data helps improve accountability, as data owners share the responsibility for ensuring that data is accurate, up-to-date and available to the public. Each January, the Council on Open Data makes it's Annual Open Data Report available to the public.

Data visualization of state level data on incarceration and other criminal justice statistics. Pulls from primary source data - U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics data. Provides high level and detailed data. Excellent place to access data that is often difficult to find. Great starting point.

CLIKS Online Data: County-City-Community Level Data on Kids from KIDS Count, an Annie E. Casey Foundation project, collects data on child well-being measures from state and local sources.

Fantastic source the provides federal primary source data in a user friendly format, including comparisons to county, state, and national level data. Free to use, and designed for public health professionals. Be sure to check out "trend data" and download the reports for your reference. Description "Many factors influence how well and how long we live, from our access to affordable housing or well-paying jobs to opportunities for a good education for our kids. The County Health Rankings model shows us how these factors work together and illustrates where we can take action to improve health and eliminate unjust barriers to opportunity."

Paid mapping program (academic discounts available) that focuses on tools to tell stories with data. View examples of a variety of topics for free. Note - GWU students - you have free access via Gelman > Databases > Social Explorer. Description: Gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations. Reinforce your decisions with Social Explorer's reliable data mapping capabilities. Alternate program is Policy Mapper

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is an economic development partnership agency of the federal government and Does it does not give you the option to pull data yourself, ARC produces a variety of research reports, chartbooks, and evaluations where you can pull county level data. Includes static maps. ARC consists of 13 state governments focusing on 423 counties across the Appalachian Region. ARC's mission is to innovate, partner, and invest to build community capacity and strengthen economic growth in Appalachia to help the Region achieve socioeconomic parity with the nation.

Tutorials to use UDS Mapper. The UDS Mapper is designed to help inform users about the current geographic extent of U.S. federal (Section 330) Health Center Program (HCP) awardees and look-alikes, and was largely designed upon algorithms and reporting methods developed by John Snow, Inc. for BPHC-requested service area analyses. The information available in the UDS Mapper includes estimates of the collective service area of these health centers by ZCTA, including the ratio of HCP awardee and look-alike patients reported in the Uniform Data System (UDS) to the target population, the change in the number of those reported patients over time, and an estimate of those in the target population that remain unserved by HCP awardees and look-alikes reporting data to the UDS (but may be served by other providers). Due to data limitations, this tool is meant to be only one of many important resources available for exploring the extent of health centers. To inform additional exploration, users can also map U.S. Census data and see the locations of all HCP awardees and look-alikes and their service delivery sites, locations of other federally-linked providers (NHSC Sites, Rural Health Clinics, Tribal Organization Facilities, etc.), and shortage areas such as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/Ps).

Absolutely fantastic mapping tool with free and subscriber options. GWU students - you have access to the professional license by going through Gelman Library > Databases > Policy Mapper. PolicyMap offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US. From the classroom to the boardroom, thousands of organizations trust PolicyMap to find the right data for their research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.

ASTHO, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers, links to state departments of health.

DC Office of Planning/State Data Center serves census data by ward, census tract, and city level.

PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) Country Health Profiles offers country specific data for Latin America.

In 1995, the Regional Core Health Data and Country Profile Initiative was launched by the Pan American Health Organization / Regional Office of the World Health Organization ( WHO) to monitor the attainment of health goals and compliance with the mandates of the Member States, in addition to ensuring the availability of a basic set of data to be collected annually that would make it possible to characterize the health situation and trends in the countries of the Region of the Americas.

Cancer Mortality Maps from the National Cancer Institute depicts the distribution of cancers across populations and states.

Kaiser Family Foundation reports on disparities in health care and health status in their State Health Reports.

Health Statistics Requests links to US state and territory departments of health.

DC Department of Health presents epidemiological reports on health at its different web sites.

Maps in a VERY visual way global indicators of infectious disease, wealth, nutritional deficiency burden, labor strikes, public health spending, nurses working, religion, fuel used, etc.