Covid-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index - East Baton Rouge Mortality Data
Screenshot of the NIEHS Covid-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index focused on East Baton Rouge.
Covid-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index - East Baton Rouge Cases Data
Screenshot of the NIEHS Covid-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index focused on East Baton Rouge.
Covid-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index - East Baton Rouge
Screenshot of the NIEHS Covid-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index focused on East Baton Rouge.
California Student Health Index Madison Elementary March 2022
Screenshot of California Student Health Index Madison Elementary March 2022
California Student Health Index Orange County March 2022
Screenshot of California Student Health Index Orange County
California Student Health Index Ratio of Highest Need Schools to All Schools, By County March 2022
Screenshot of the California Student Health Index
CDC SVI - East Baton Rouge Parish March 2022
Screenshot of a CDC SVI map of East Baton Rouge Parish.
10.What steps does a user need to take to produce analytically sharp or provocative data visualizations with this data resource?
margauxfCreators of the Student Health Index recommend using the tool in combination with qualitative data collection and stakeholder/community engagement (e.g. working with school leaders, local community leaders, and healthcare providers).
A full guide to using the dashboard is available here.
8. How has this data resource been critiqued or acknowledged to be limited?
margauxfData sources utilized by the index are not always the most current due to data collection limitations (e.g. covid-19 has caused disruptions in the collection of CDE data).
The Index is limited in that it does not offer data for schools that were not large enough to warrant the construction of a School-based Health Center. Thus, schools that did not meet specific enrollment targets were excluded from the dashboard. This includes rural schools (designed as such by the USDA) with an enrollment under 500 students, urban schools (without a high school) with less than 500 students, and urban schools (with a high school) with less than 1000 students. California had more than 10,000 active public schools in 2020-21. The final dashboard for the Student Health Index includes 4,821 schools.
The lack of available data on health indicators at a school-level restricted the Student Health Index to using proxies for the health outcomes. Some health indicators are included, but they are not school-specific, instead linked to specific schools geographically through the census tract. However, community-level data does not always accurately reflect the characteristics of a school’s population. As a result, school-level indicators in the Index were weighted more heavily than community-level indicators.
Additionally, race was not included as a measure in the Student Health Index because of California’s Proposition 20, which prohibits the allocation of public resources based on race and ethnicity. However, the dataset does contain measures of non-white students at each school.
The Index has also been limited as a quantitative measure of need, which may overlook the influence of other factors that might be better illuminated through qualitative evidence (e.g. stakeholder engagement, focus groups, interviews, etc.).
Screenshot of the NIEHS Covid-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index focused on East Baton Rouge.