NEW CDC PLACES New Look Website!

November 21, 2024

Celebrate Rural Health Day with the New Look of PLACES Website

This National Rural Health Day, visit the newly updated PLACES website to explore local health data and the factors in your community that influence health. PLACES provides first-of-its-kind chronic disease and other health-related data for all U.S. counties, incorporated and census-designated places, census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs). Its estimates go down to the neighborhood level, making it a valuable source of population health data for many small and rural communities.

PLACES provides data across 49 chronic disease and other health-related measures. The recent release includes seven new non-medical factors that affect health. The added measures are:    Social isolation. Received food stamps. Food insecurity.   Housing insecurity. Threat of utility shut-off.   Transportation barriers. Lack of social and emotional support.   Available for 39 states and the District of Columbia, the new measures can help rural public health and community planners better identify overlapping health and social needs, as well as areas that lack access to resources or services that are needed for health.   For example, in rural areas where health data can be hard to find, PLACES can be used to identify communities with high rates of chronic disease, along with factors like food and housing insecurity—highlighting areas in need of public health, social, and/or structural solutions.  Explore the updated PLACES data and promote it with your rural partners this National Rural Health Day and beyond.  Click Here to Email Us!

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