{"id":2058,"date":"2023-08-22T20:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:57:25","slug":"phdl-resource-highlight-policy-maps-data-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/phdl-resource-highlight-policy-maps-data-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"PHDL Resources:  Policy Map&#8217;s Data Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1827 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/09\/envjust-e1692646175917.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"210\" \/><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">Curious about what is behind Policy Map?\u00a0 Do you like digging into the details behind visualizations? Interested in the data backbone of Policy Map?<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Policy Map, a data mapping resource is available through the Public Health Digital Library.\u00a0 This resource helps users visualize data by combining different data sources and displaying them based on location.\u00a0 \u00a0The mapping application and analytics platform is built for non-GIS professionals, data-literate researchers, and everyone in between.\u00a0 \u00a0Policy Map collects data from authoritative public and private sources.\u00a0 The data is analyzed, cleaned up and standarized.\u00a0 Once the data is standardized across indicators, it can be analyzed and displayed.<\/p>\n<p>Policy Map&#8217;s Data Dictionary lists the data sources behind the maps.\u00a0 Each soucre listed in the dictionary includes details, topics, source, years available, description,and a link to more information.\u00a0 Additional information such as whether the data is publicly available or available as part of a subscription, and whether the data can be downloaded is also included.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample of a data profile in the Policy Map dictionary:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2159 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/08\/policymap-2023-08-21-154939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/08\/policymap-2023-08-21-154939.jpg 935w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/08\/policymap-2023-08-21-154939-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/08\/policymap-2023-08-21-154939-768x753.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Policy Map&#8217;s data dictionary can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policymap.com\/data\/dictionary\">on their website<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Policy Map also provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policymap.com\/data\/directory\">Data Directory<\/a> which summarizes all data sources and groups them by categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious about what is behind Policy Map?\u00a0 Do you like digging into the details behind visualizations? Interested in the data backbone of Policy Map? &nbsp; Policy Map, a data mapping resource is available through the Public Health Digital Library.\u00a0 This resource helps users visualize data by combining different data sources and displaying them based on&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/phdl-resource-highlight-policy-maps-data-sources\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,11,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-phdl-resources","category-public-health","category-public-health-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}