Foreword / Lori Lightfoot -- Preface : one street, two worlds -- American roulette. American roulette ; structural violence and the death gap ; Location, location, location ; Perception is reality ; the three Bs : beliefs, behavior, biology -- Trapped by inequity. Fire and rain : life and death in natural disasters ; Mass incarceration, premature death, and community health ; Immigration status and health inequality : the case of transplant -- Health care inequality. The US health care system : separate and unequal ; The poison pill : health insurance in America -- The cure. Community efficacy and the death gap ; Community activist against structural violence ; Observe, judge, act -- Afterword.
The amazing tale of ?County" is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a ?poor house" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. Ansell covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the ?Final Rounds" when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who underwent rigorous trai
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IntroductionThe WA Child Development Atlas (CDA) is a unique resource that generates geographic profiles of the development, health and well-being of WA children. The CDA has been developed at the Telethon Kids Institute with funding from the Ian Potter and Minderoo Foundations and in partnership with government agencies and service providers.
Objectives and ApproachVisualisation of data within geographic boundaries helps to build a picture of 'place'. This informs better decision making and underpins the development of evidence-based policy and service planning that acknowledges the differing needs of communities.
The CDA is an online, interactive mapping tool that utilises geographic information system (GIS) technologies to identify spatial patterns in population-level child and youth development indicators. Data are sourced from core health, social, and linked administrative datasets, from 1990 onwards. Aggregated, de-identified data on children and young people (0-24 years) and their parents are mapped within geographic boundaries across WA.
The CDA was piloted to ensure it is useful and relevant to a diversity of stakeholders. Extensive community consultation has been undertaken at all stages of the project. The CDA has been received favourably by consumers, government organisations, communities and researchers, with significant support for public launch.
ResultsThe CDA is a freely available, confidential and secure resource. Features of the CDA include: it is online and interactive (no software is required), area profiles, downloadable charts, tables and summary statistics, map panning and zooming. The Atlas has been used to generate community profiles and empowers all the people of WA with enhanced knowledge and understanding of the development of children.
Conclusion / ImplicationsThe CDA has built capacity to use spatial information, assisting agencies who make decisions relevant to child development and to facilitate cross-agency collaboration. It is an important and valuable resource utilising disparate data sources with significant public benefit.
