Solutions for Health Equity with GIS

Never before has there been such a focus on equity as it relates to health—especially to ensure that health and human services organizations address the social determinants of health and gaps in social and racial equities. These inequities involve poverty, age, living conditions, and education, and it's important to understand the connection between where things are happening and where service gaps exist. This is where geographic information system (GIS) technology comes in. A location-based strategy can help you create an effective approach to collecting data; performing analysis; allocating resources where they're needed most; communicating with decision-makers; and, ultimately, achieving health equity.

Population health management
Community health assessment
Citizen engagement
Performance monitoring

Address population health management

To deliver programs and services that align with needs, it is critical to understand what your community's makeup is today and what it will be in the future. Using demographic, socioeconomic, and lifestyle data, you can build a more complete picture of your community, understand health disparities, analyze public health trends, and prepare for future needs.

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Generate community health assessments

Your community health assessments should not simply fulfill a legal requirement; they should be actionable. They should give you insight into who needs the most help and where you can make the most impact. Incorporating GIS will give you this new perspective. You will be able to run spatial analysis to see hot spots, determine where you should allocate resources for the greatest impact, understand how you can lead health interventions, and decide how you can better serve patients and prepare for their needs.

Citizen engagement

Building a community requires two-way communication. With GIS, you can share information effortlessly, in an easy-to-understand format to influence health. Provide residents with an accurate snapshot of their community's health, nearby services, and authoritative information. Inform the community with maps of available resources—parks, fresh-food markets, services, health insurers, and more. And more importantly, elicit citizen participation and feedback for community-based key initiatives.

Performance monitoring

Those who are successfully using GIS to address health inequities are using readily available applications and dashboards that improve situational awareness, allow users to shift to iterative policy making, and address issues in real time. These apps allow organizations to set baselines, monitor progress in at-risk areas, and be transparent with the community on their performance.

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Advancing health equity with GIS

Ongoing crises have revealed health inequities in communities across the United States. GIS technology helps pinpoint these disparities and provides organizations with actionable data to address them. In this ebook, you will learn how local governments leverage location intelligence to advance health equity in their jurisdictions.

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ArcGIS Hub

Build information sites and engagement platforms to organize people, data, and tools around key community initiatives and increase citizen input.

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Leverage demographic, lifestyle, and socioeconomic data to better understand community makeup.

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Present data and analytics on an intuitive and interactive screen to visualize trends, monitor status in real time, and inform stakeholders.

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A story can effect change, influence opinion, and create awareness. Present information, illustrate spatial relationships, and add visual appeal.

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Leverage the analysis software that fuses location analytics with open data science and business intelligence workflows to unlock new insight.

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