This is not built into the index, but instead allows users to understand index data in light of racial/ethnic composition. In order to ensure the Healthy Places Index can be used in a variety of applications, including informing policy decisions, the Alliance has made additional, informational layers about Race/Ethnicity available on our online map.įor all versions of the index, racial breakdown is provided as an informational layer at the census tract level. These neighborhoods typically have higher pollution, unhealthy housing, and limited access to health care, parks, and fresh fruits and vegetables-all impacting their health.ĭespite the important role these factors play in shaping health, California’s Prop 209 prohibits allocating certain kinds of public resources based on race and ethnicity. Areas with a high concentration of people of color have often endured many years of disinvestment and high rates of poverty, sub-standard schools, and trauma. These inequities can be largely attributed to historic and persistent systemic factors-such as housing discrimination, differences in school funding, or employment opportunities. For example, on average African Americans suffer poorer health outcomes than their white counterparts. Public health professionals, including the Alliance, recognize the significant and well-documented role that race and ethnicity play in shaping health outcomes in the United States – including California. You can find out more about these additional layers in the sections below. In addition to the characteristics calculated in the Healthy Places Index, the mapping tool includes additional selectable data layers such as: health outcomes race/ethnicity climate change effects and other layers that will be valuable in advancing resilient, equitable communities in California. The graphic below shows the eight Policy Action Areas, their weights within the index, and the 25 community characteristics that are combined into the overall HPI score. The statistics were designed to maximize the ability of the Healthy Places Index to identify healthy communities and quantify the factors that shape health. The index was created using statistical modeling techniques that evaluated the relationship between these Policy Action Areas and life expectancy at birth.
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In addition to the overall score, the index also contains eight sub-scores for each of the Policy Action Areas (Economic Education Housing Health Care Access Neighborhood Clean Environment Transportation and Social factors).
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The tool also allows multiple census tracts to be pooled together into a single score, allowing the comparison of zip codes, project areas, and other geographies. HPI scores for each census tract can be compared across the state to paint an overall picture of health and well-being in each neighborhood in California. The HPI combines 25 community characteristics into a single indexed HPI Score.
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The tool includes detailed policy guides to support specific policy interventions that improve community conditions and health. The HPI also provides scores based on community conditions to allow for comparisons between areas, as well as deeper dives on conditions in any given area.
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It contains user-friendly mapping and data resources at the census tract level across California. The purpose of the HPI is to prioritize public and private investments, resources and programs. The California Healthy Places Index (HPI) is a powerful new tool, developed by the Public Health Alliance of Southern California (Alliance) in partnership with the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center on Society and Health, that can be used to explore and change those community conditions that predict life expectancy. These community conditions, also called the "social determinants of health", are depicted in the graphic at right. The health of Californians is shaped dramatically by “non-health” policies and community characteristics, such as housing, education, economic, and social factors.