Research Guides: Epidemiology: Data Visualization

Health Data

Chronic Disease GIS Exchange (CDC)
Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
Documents variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States, using Medicare data.
Eurostat Euro eXplorer
A web-compliant application that enables the visualization of socioeconomic information in Europe.
Gapminder: for a fact-based world view
Uses software to display various statistics about global indicators and the world's countries.
Google Public Data Explorer
Makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize, and communicate. As charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand.
Health Equity Tracker
"Where available, the tracker offers breakdowns by race and ethnicity, sex, and age. This is currently limited to the national and state level, with county-level data coming soon."
HealthMap: Global Disease Alert Map
Compiles data sources on the current global state of infectious diseases and their effects on human and animal health.

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Statistics are aggregated by disease and displayed by location on global and regional maps.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Data Visualizations
Free & easily accessible data provided in innovative ways to visualize complex health issues in the U.S. & abroad. New: Tracking personal health care spending in the US
Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke (CDC)
Social Explorer
Contains data from the first Census in 1790 to the present day. Users can generate maps of population or specific demographic variables by location, as well as reports for "social determinants of health."
USDA Food Environment Atlas
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Food environment factors, such as store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics, interact to influence food choices and diet quality. Research is beginning to document the complexity of these interactions, but more is needed to identify casual relationships and effective policy interventions.
World Mapper
A collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.

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The University of Michigan is a co-collaborative partner in this initiative, as referenced by Dr. Kolars in his lecture on "Platforms for Global Health Initiatives at the UMMS".

Last Updated: Jun 3, 2025 10:12 AM

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