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Resources by Topic: Public health

Utah Substance Use and Mental Health Data Portal
Portal displays data on substance use and mental health services, outcomes, and the population served in Utah. Includes a rural and urban breakdown on the number of individuals and total percent population served through substance use disorder services and mental health services. Covers mental health client data for the 13 local authorities, rural versus urban, and state totals for service utilization and median length of services for multiple types of healthcare services, including outpatient, inpatient, residential, medication management, case management, therapy, emergency, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Utah Department of Health and Human Services
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Tap Talk: The Drinking Water in Rural America Podcast
A podcast that discusses issues related to maintaining healthy drinking water supply and connecting professionals interested in public health infrastructure. Episodes focus on topics such as public health tracking, well water safety, healthy water initiatives in communities, and more.
Sponsoring organizations: Rural Community Assistance Partnership, University of Illinois
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Nevada Health Authority Office of Analytics: Data Dashboards and Reports Catalog
Provides data and reports on a variety of population health measures in Nevada. County level data, including a group of counties defined as rural, are available for topic areas including behavioral health, infectious disease, mortality, healthcare coverage and costs, maternal and child health, and other topics in population health and state services. Includes the DHHS Factbook, which reports on the activities of DHHS.
Sponsoring organization: Nevada Health Authority
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State Firearm Mortality Explorer
Provides data on firearm mortality by state. Includes a map allowing users to select variables such as firearm deaths, homicides, and suicides along with state-level population characteristics compared to national, including urban and nonurban location.
Sponsoring organization: RAND Corporation
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Community Connector: Visualize Social Determinants of Health Scores
Open-sourced tool presents community demographics, social needs, and health outcomes by county in Colorado. Allows users to compare similar counties and select several measures of social determinants of health and health outcomes.
Sponsoring organization: Mathematica
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Arizona Rural and Public Health Policy Forum
Provides access to recorded sessions and supplementary materials from the annual Arizona Rural & Public Health Policy Forum. Features presentations on topics related to health equity, social determinants of health, tribal health, public health policy, information technology, healthcare cost, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Arizona Center for Rural Health
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Rural and Frontier Health
Focuses on supporting local health departments (LHDs) in rural and frontier areas by building capacity and capability to serve their communities. Includes initiatives, resources, collaborations, news, and spotlights related to rural and frontier LHDs.
Sponsoring organization: National Association of County and City Health Officials
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Ohio: Find My Local Health Department
A directory that allows user to input address in Ohio to find their associated local health department (LHD).
Sponsoring organization: Ohio Department of Health
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Rural Health Mapping Tool
An interactive mapping system to help inform rural communities' strategies around COVID-19. Includes county-level data on COVID-19 vaccination rates, as well as healthcare access, health status, and sociodemographic information.
Sponsoring organization: NORC at the University of Chicago
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Wisconsin Immunizations: Influenza Vaccine Data
Provides county-level data on Wisconsin residents who have received a flu vaccine. Includes vaccine trends from past seasons as well as percentage data broken down by age, race/ethnicity, and sex.
Sponsoring organization: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
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