You can dip your toe into the topic or dive deep. You can learn about how to map issues in your community or see how other groups are measuring impact and the tools they use. Read stories about communities that have used health metrics in community development work. And if you want to design your own study, you can do that too. If you need to make your case to a funder or policymaker, read about the evidence for a link between health and community.
Mapping Tools
Learn how to map your community’s strengths and target areas.
Measurement Tools
See how others are measuring health-related impact and find resources to help you get started.
Evidence Base
Learn more about the effects of neighborhood on health.
Measurement Stories
Read and watch stories from the field about measurement in action.
Deeper Dive
Want more? Go deeper with these ideas and innovations.
This interactive web-based mapping tool allows health professionals, policy makers, academic researchers, and planners to combine, analyze and display information in ways that promote better understanding of health and the forces that affect it.
This Scorecard is a comprehensive resource for data on household financial health and policy recommendations to help put everyone in our country on a path to prosperity.
Developed by a consortium of California based organizations, this tool measures the overall performance, amount of racial disparity, and impact by population size of every county in California.