by Unai Miguel Andres | Nov 29, 2018 | Equity, Health, Poverty & Income
Looking for SAVI’s latest food desert report? We’ve updated food access statistics for 2019, and they’re available in Getting Groceries: Food Access Across Groups, Neighborhoods, and Time Read the Report This map shows block groups that are food...
by Polis Center | Feb 21, 2018 | Children & Families, Demographics, Economy, Health
This is where SAVI analysts regularly share the stories and studies that have caught our eye. These are the latest ideas in socioeconomic, policy, and data viz trends. Health Affairs: Child Mortality In The US And 19 OECD Comparator Nations: A 50-Year Time-Trend...
by Jim Dowling | Jul 14, 2017 | Health
There is one clue that speaks volumes about your health prospects but has nothing to do with your medical records. “We know now that one of the greatest predictors of health outcomes for almost any patient, undergoing any procedure, or with almost any disease, is one...
by Polis Center | Jul 14, 2017 | Health
About 45 percent of the U.S. population smoked in the mid-1960s. In the last half century, the rate has fallen by two-thirds, to about 15 percent. But the success is uneven, and the story is complicated. Smoking rates vary widely from state to state, city to city,...
by Jim Dowling | Jul 14, 2017 | Health
A team whose players complement each other well is sometimes described as “more than the sum of its parts.” Patrick T.S. Lai was drawn to Central Indiana because such synergies are emerging in the realm of health care. Lai, a doctoral candidate in the School of...