CARDIOVASCULAR & CANCER RATES FOR THE RURAL DELTA REGION

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This is an interactive tool that shows 13 health measures for people in Delta Region counties/parishes.  We show rates of cancer and cardiovascular diseases across the region, which have previously been shown to be 10-20% higher than peer counties and the rest of the U.S., respectively.^[1],[2] You can use this tool to compare rates by county, by rural-urban status, to peer counties, to the national average, to national quartiles, by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) regions, and by states. We’ve included features that allow users to

• Download images and data.
• Compare groups of rural and urban Delta counties.
• Visualize rates based on levels of incidence (darker colors equal greater incidence).
• Select which levels of incidence to feature on the map. For example, users can opt to show only counties with the highest incidence.
• Focus on any of the 12 HRSA-defined service regions in the Delta Region (e.g., Alabama Region A).
• Hover over each county to learn the county name, incidence, and HRSA service region.
• Click on a county and immediately be taken to a data spreadsheet with all the data.
• Filter to look at county data by state(s), rural/urban, Delta Region (yes/no).