Health and Poverty

Find data broken down to the national, state, or county level on a number of topics, such as care avoidance due to cost, poverty, or insurance rates.

The Area Deprivation Index (ADI) is based on a measure created by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) over three decades ago, and has since been refined, adapted, and validated to the Census Block Group neighborhood level by Amy Kind, MD, PhD and her research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It allows for rankings of neighborhoods by socioeconomic disadvantage in a region of interest (e.g. at the state or national level). It includes factors for the theoretical domains of income, education, employment, and housing quality. It can be used to inform health delivery and policy, especially for the most disadvantaged neighborhood groups.

Links to data and studies on health equity and social determinants of health across many government agencies.

Healthy People 2030 provides tools for action to help individuals, organizations, and communities committed to improving health and well-being advance health equity.

Information on health equity in Tennessee, including access to hospitals and historic inequities.

This includes includes data on demographics, health coverage, health status, and certain health conditions by race/ethnicity and gender to provide insight into health disparities and changes in disparities over time. There is also data on births and mortality by race/ethnicity.