In 2015, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and CDC Foundation launched the 500 Cities Project in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The purpose of the 500 Cities Project is to provide city- and census tract-level small area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use for the largest 500 cities in the United States. This collaboration provides analysis of 27 chronic disease measures, health outcomes and clinical preventive service use for the largest cities in the United States. This project includes a total population of 103,020,808, which represents 33.4% of the total United States population of 308,745,538.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a mapping tool, a part of the 500 Cities Project, that allows users to view the prevalence of certain chronic conditions, behaviors and risk factors that have a substantial effect on people’s health for the largest cities in the U.S.
According to the CDC, the unique value of the 500 Cities Project is that it provides data for cities, many of which cover multiple counties or do not follow county boundaries, and for census tracts for the first time; reflects innovations in generating valid small-area estimates for population health and; will enable retrieval, visualization, and exploration of a uniformly- defined selected city and tract-level data for the largest 500 U.S. cities for conditions, behaviors, and risk factors that have a substantial effect on population health.
Go to the mapping tool and see the specifics of population health for your city.
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