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February 4, 2021 Online interactive map called Places compares 27 health factors including heart disease, diabetes in communities across the country. SHOW TRANSCRIPT Where you live can affect your health. And now there s a new way to measure the health of your community: a CDC data tool called Places. It s an online, hyper-local look at health factors across the country. This gives you a whole new view of the data in Places, said Karen Hacker, director at the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion. The online interactive map tracks 27 chronic disease factors, like heart disease, diabetes and health insurance. Type in your ZIP code and you can compare the prevalence of diseases in your location to other neighborhoods or the country as a whole. ....
KNBN NewsCenter1 New “PLACES” website provides U.S. data to help inform better health decisions A new online research option has been created by the CDC, giving people a birds eye view of chronic disease and behaviors on all levels, including state, local and even neighborhood level. January 26, 2021 ATLANTA The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in coordination with the CDC Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is out with a new tool – called PLACES – that provides hyper-localized health data. This data was previously not available to the entire country, but is now searchable down to the zip code. The website features maps highlighting areas of interest on many facets, including health conditions. ....