IMNashville: Improving Health, Eliminating Disparities
The use of GIS and interactive mapping are highly suitable for analyzing epidemiological data, revealing trends, and identifying how health outcomes are affected by the physical, built, and social environments.
“IM Nashville” was developed to promote collaboration between academic and community partners to improve the health status and eliminate health disparities among the residents of Nashville/Davidson County.
Specific aims of this web portal are to promote:
- Community participation in research
- Planning of targeted neighborhood interventions
- Evaluation of intervention outcomes
- Public policies that support healthy outcomes
- Dissemination of knowledge gained both locally and nationally
Geographic information systems (GIS) mapping tools are provided to:
- Conduct research with online searchable data bases
- Assess local health conditions
- Examine health within the context of the natural, built, and social environments
- Analyze restricted data sets confidentially
Functions of the IMNashville web portal include:
- Interactive mapping of:
- Health outcomes
- Community assets
- Environmental features
- US Census data
- Neighborhoods
- Identify impact at county and sub-county levels
- Create charts and graphs to display data
- Print maps, charts, and graphs
- Identify local academic and community partners for collaboration
