MOBroadband

Powered by the University of Missouri System Broadband Initiative, MOBroadband is a coordinated effort to support the build-out of reliable, high-speed internet infrastructure across the state of Missouri. MOBroadband aims to connect communities to resources and expand the use of broadband-based applications that strengthen economic opportunities, educational access, and well-being.

Missouri Local Health Department Communicable Disease Dashboards

CARES has partnered with several Missouri County Health Departments to create communicable disease dashboards showing up-to-date information on the number of cases for various diseases documented in their service areas. Diseases tracked range from animal bites to STDs. See the number of cases over time, plus data broken out by age and sex, when available. These dashboards are also available in Spanish!

Missouri Hospital Association-Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas Starter Map

This map includes layers originally published by the Missouri Hospital Association on mental health clinic shortage areas, clinic locations, and emergency department visits for suicidality in urban and rural communities across Missouri.

Missouri EATS Food Assessment Tool

The Missouri EATS Food Assessment is designed to help communities start the conversation about building a stronger community food environment. Missouri EATS is a community development process designed to identify local assets and needs, develop a plan to act on top priorities, and make sustainable changes to enhance local food systems.

AgSite

AgSite provides targeted information about property and farms across the state of Missouri. The AgSite report includes data related to weather conditions, soil health, and native and threatened species. AgSite is designed to support risk assessments, land purchases, and guide investments.

Vulnerable Populations Footprint Tool

The vulnerable populations footprint tool is a compact mapping and reporting platform that identifies geographic areas with high rates of poverty and low educational attainment – the two indicators demonstrated to be the primary social determinants of population health. Thresholds for target area identification are adjustable, allowing the tool to be utilized in all geographic areas where regional rates may be higher or lower than the national average.

exploreMOhealth

Use exploreMOhealth to explore hyperlocal health data geared toward informing better understanding of factors influencing health outcomes in your community.

exploreMOhealth’s Missouri ZIP Health Rankings Project is a collaboration between researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine and the Hospital Industry Data Institute, the data company of the Missouri Hospital Association. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the project provides a unique approach to measuring community health at the ZIP code level, using hospital discharge and census-based data applied to the County Health Rankings model of population health.

The data provided by the project are designed to inform community health needs assessments at a granular geographic level to support targeted resource allocations for community health improvement initiatives. Project findings have been presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association and published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.