![]() ![]() ![]() While K-12 schools remain closed due to the state-wide shelter in place order, there are many policies and efforts in place to ensure that children in need of food are still able to receive food assistance during this time however, there may still be gaps. Identifying food insecure communities by census tract There are many ways you can use the COVID-19 HPI Resource Map. COVID-19 Healthy Places Index Indicators COVID-19 HPI Resource Map in Action ![]() Categories include COVID-19 case and death counts, COVID-19 vulnerable populations, COVID-19 associated health risk factors, healthcare infrastructure, socioeconomic and community conditions, and race/ethnicity. We’ve curated 48 (and counting!) COVID-19 related indicators, organized in 6 categories, to help support your organization’s response to COVID-19. With our latest update, you can explore community conditions linked to life expectancy across California with up-to-date measures of COVID-19, including county-level death rates by race/ethnicity (where available). This is a key tool to understand the equity implications of this epidemic. We have produced charts describing COVID-19 death rates by race/ethnicity in jurisdictions across California. HPI strives to properly frame equity issues and health disparities between races and different geographies as the policy, systems and environmental issues they are, rather than allude to individual behaviors and abilities. These community conditions are called the “social determinants of health”, which inform the indicators used on the HPI platform. People’s health is shaped dramatically by “non-health” policies and community characteristics, such as housing, education, economic, environmental, and social factors. The California Healthy Places Index (HPI), a powerful resource that showcases community conditions that predict life expectancy and influence health. In response, we launched an interactive C OVID-19 HPI Resource Mapon the California Healthy Places Index (HPI) platform, to support local response efforts and inform equitable resource allocation, program planning, and service delivery. Right now, local leaders, schools, government agencies, foundations, and even neighbors are gathering resources together to help those most in need during this crisis. But we know some populations are more vulnerable than others. ![]()
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