CDC PLACES Newsletter

October 24, 2023

PLACES provides model-based, population-level analysis and community estimates of health measures for all counties, incorporated and census-designated places, census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) across the United States. Learn more about PLACES.

Technical Tip

The AGOL service and web maps are updated for each PLACES release. For those using maps saved from previous releases, the year in the pop-ups and the classification scheme may not automatically update. Users should check their saved maps to ensure all aspects of their map are up to date.

New PLACES Disability Measures

Model-based county-level prevalence estimates of any disability by cluster-outlier analysis

	Seven new disability measures were added as part of the July 2023 PLACES release! This included 6 disability types (hearing, vision, cognition, mobility, self-care, and independent living) and any disability. Learn more in new article that highlights the new disability measures and used cluster-outlier spatial statistical methods to identify clustered counties.

Recent PLACES Data Highlighted in Publications Two recent articles highlighted PLACES county-level estimates of short sleep duration and lifetime diagnosis of depression.

Model-based county-level prevalence estimates of short sleep duration	Model-based age-standardized county-level prevalence estimates of a lifetime diagnosis of depression

November is COPD Awareness Month Find Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) related estimates in the PLACES Interactive Map and Data Portal. Visit CDC’s COPD webpage and NIH’s Learn More Breathe Better® webpage for more resources. A recent article demonstrated how COPD prevalence estimates from PLACES and social vulnerability measures from the CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) can be jointly examined to help inform local health planning.

PLACES in Practice How is your team using PLACES data? Please share your stories and experience with us by emailing PLACES@cdc.gov. You can also send questions to this mailbox.  Click here to email the PLACES team!

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