Use GIS to address structural racism and health inequities impacting communities of color
Enhance collaboration in your partnerships with community organizations; tribes; scientific researchers; and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)-serving organizations and accelerate your efforts to promote equitable health outcomes by enabling two-way communication. Engage with easy-to-deploy survey tools. Map and analyze results to identify community challenges and sentiments. With GIS, you can share information effortlessly and in an easy-to-understand format, giving residents an accurate snapshot of a community's experiences, nearby services, and authoritative information.
Use location intelligence to address food insecurity among communities of color. Find and support people of color experiencing food insecurity for many reasons, including transportation and economic barriers and social distancing. Locate areas that could benefit from programming that incentivizes reduced food delivery costs and fresh produce sales. Identify and eliminate barriers to access to healthy and affordable food to minimize health risks for communities of color.
Quickly evaluate current access to health resources in communities of color and identify gaps. Forecast future health service demand to adjust allocations and minimize health inequities. Improve geographic accessibility with advanced mapping and spatial analytics for facility siting, optimizing mobile outreach efforts and leveraging community partners to expand services in underserved areas.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shared the latest county-level hospitalization and mortality rates for heart disease and stroke as well as high blood pressure medication nonadherence rates to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.
Government agencies can use this solution to communicate progress made on racial equity initiatives or programs. It includes applications used to communicate key racial equity initiatives or programs, visualize workforce diversity metrics, gauge public sentiment, and more.
Part of an ongoing webinar series for advancing racial equity in government, this webinar will feature a conversation with subject matter experts in the areas of racial justice, health, and location technology.
Fill out this form, and we will contact you to help your government organization address racial inequity with GIS.