{"id":6145,"date":"2015-12-04T08:39:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2015-12-04T08:39:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:39:34","slug":"four-maps-of-american-health-you-need-to-see","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/four-maps-of-american-health-you-need-to-see","title":{"rendered":"Four Maps of American Health You Need to See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eat your fruits and veggies. Drink plenty of water. Exercise 30 minutes a day. That\u2019s the perfect recipe for good health, right? Well, not quite.<br \/>\nThe truth is, your health depends on much more. Thanks to advances in mapping technology, today\u2019s health professionals know that where you live, work, learn, and play has an incredible impact on your well-being.<br \/>\nInteractive maps paint the picture of community health, showing the spatial relationship between disparities, illness, and location\u2014like visualizing how a neighborhood with no playgrounds influences childhood obesity. Maps offer rich insights that can help drive positive change in Americans\u2019 lives.<br \/>\nCheck out these four maps to explore the health challenges that permeate the United States and how place plays a pivotal role.<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nEducation and Health <\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), \u201ceducation is one of the strongest predictors of health; the more schooling people have, the better their health is likely to be.\u201d<br \/>\nUnderstanding and communicating the health benefits of an education may help increase graduation rates. This interactive map explores the spatial relationship between high school completion and health quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/12\/graduating_640.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6147\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/12\/graduating_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/r\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flearngis.maps.arcgis.com%2Fapps%2FStorytellingSwipe%2Findex.html%3Fappid%3Dfddf7776acd0407086e03796385c5fb5%26webmap%3D86e588897c2f43e49514c1c0284333f9%23\" target=\"_blank\">Explore the map.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nAccess to Health Care<\/strong><br \/>\nAccess to basic health care varies radically from place to place across the country and is inadequate in many parts of the nation. These county-level maps present two ways of examining a fundamental community health challenge: to the left of the slider bar is a look at doctors\u2019 offices relative to population: to the right, primary health providers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/storymaps.esri.com\/stories\/doctors\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6148\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/12\/access.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1727\" height=\"909\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/storymaps.esri.com\/stories\/doctors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Explore the map.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nLinking Obesity and Diabetes<\/strong><br \/>\nFact 1: Close to one-third of US adults are obese.<br \/>\nFact 2: Almost 90 percent of people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes are overweight.<br \/>\nThese county-level maps reflect the close links between these key community health challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/storymaps.esri.com\/stories\/diabetes\/#\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/12\/diabetes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1731\" height=\"909\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/storymaps.esri.com\/stories\/diabetes\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Explore the map.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nPoverty and Health<\/strong><br \/>\nPoverty can have a significant impact on health. Poverty among school-age children (5 to 17 years old and living with families) increased in more than a quarter of US counties during 2007\u20132011. This map shows how poverty in school-age children in the United States has changed during 2005\u20132011 by school district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/storymaps.blueraster.com\/saipe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/12\/poverty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1729\" height=\"908\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/storymaps.blueraster.com\/saipe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Explore the map.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nLearn More<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/landing-pages\/industries\/health\/healthy-communities\">Find out<\/a> how healthy communities start with Esri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[275862],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6145","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-focus"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Four Maps of American Health You Need to See<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/four-maps-of-american-health-you-need-to-see\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four Maps of American Health You Need to See\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eat your fruits and veggies. 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