Health Equity Starts at the Neighborhood Level
Wide health differences exist between neighborhoods, yet local-level health data is often not readily available. This gap makes it challenging for community organizations, health systems, government agencies, researchers, and others to identify and prioritize local improvement opportunities or target neighborhoods facing inequity.
Our data, tools, and examples are available to:
- Identify new or confirm existing opportunities for improvement
- Inform strategies
- Strengthen proposals to secure resources
- Build supportive partnerships
- Advocate for change
- Support evaluation in Wisconsin neighborhoods
Data
Our reports and maps provide data for most Wisconsin ZIP codes, and select ZIP codes in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota, covering over 25 health care outcome and quality measures. These resources can assist communities, researchers, government agencies, and healthcare organizations in identifying or confirming local opportunities for improvement.
Tools
Our tools offer deeper insights into the data presented in the reports, providing ideas and guidance for taking action. They help users understand the data and how to apply it effectively to drive change in their communities.
Examples
Our examples demonstrate how these reports have been utilized and illustrate how different roles—such as community leaders, researchers, and policymakers—can use the data and tools provided by NHP to facilitate positive health outcomes.
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The University of Wisconsin Neighborhood Health Partnerships Program used electronic health record and influenza vaccination data to estimate COVID-19 relative mortality risk and potential barriers to vaccination in Wisconsin ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. Data visualization revealed four groupings to use in planning and prioritizing vaccine outreach and communication based on ZIP Code Tabulation Area characteristics.…
The Neighborhood Health Partnerships Program recently developed new resources for our "Placing the Social Determinants of Health in Context" series. These tools provide some examples of evidence-informed linkages between diabetes and heart disease and the measures available in the NHP Sociodemographic Profile Reports (e.g., affordable housing, health insurance coverage). NHP is also in the process…
The Placing Social Determinants of Health in Context: Mental Health tool is now available on the Neighborhood Health Partnerships Program website! These tools were developed to provide examples of evidence-informed linkages between living conditions and health care quality and outcomes. This tool can be used to help with grant applications, meetings with decision makers and…