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NYC has actually been doing this on a neighborhood level for years. Obviously this data could be used for worker/community socialist planning. Crain's Health Pulse Tuesday, May 15, 2018 How NYC stacks up on population health dashboard A new population health tool <http://www.cityhealthdashboard.com/>debuts today, offering researchers and policymakers in New York and 499 other cities nationwide a window into how its residents fare on a variety of environmental, behavioral and health measures. The City Health Dashboard, developed by NYU Langone Medical Center and the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at NYU, features both city- and neighborhood-level data. For some cities, this is the first time such comprehensive data has been made available, said Dr. Marc Gourevitch, principal investigator of the City Health Dashboard and chair of the Department of Population Health at NYU School of Medicine. That's not the case here. "New York City is rich in data to begin with," Gourevitch said. "What we hope this resource will do [for the city] is to bring into a single place not only data about health status but the drivers of health status." When it comes to social determinants of health, 29% of New York's schoolchildren live in poverty, compared with an average of 23.6% across the 500 cities. The rate of chronic school absenteeism exceeds the national average: 29.1%, compared with an average of 17.1%. Adult New Yorkers are less likely to smoke than their peers and just about as likely to binge drink. But they're more likely to have been physically inactive in their leisure time. Among adults in the city, 30.5% reported no physical activity in the past 30 days, versus 25.5% for all the cities. Still, fewer New Yorkers are obese: 24.7% compared with 28.8% nationwide.—R.S. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
