The conversation we’re entering into today is both new and one we’ve been having together for a long time on this podcast. It’s a conversation about how to understand what makes community health more possible – and conversely what makes it far less possible.
Henry David Thoreau – yes, the Walden guy – once wrote “not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” Thoreau, while sitting on the shore of a secluded pond in the 1800s, clearly had the story of 21st Century health data in mind when he wrote this. OK, maybe he didn’t, but that quote fits the quest that Vitalyst has been on to share actionable, and equitable, data insights on community health so well that we’re going to repeat it: “not that the story needs to be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
Here we are, in 2020, when it seems like everyone is an amateur epidemiologist thanks to COVID-19, yet we all still struggle to find accessible, understandable data; we struggle when that data contradicts dominant narratives; and we struggle to reconcile what the numbers can tell us about how communities can live better and thrive. Well, as the stoic philosophers like to say, the obstacle may be daunting, but the obstacle is the way. So today, we have two great guests who are involved in the health data struggle every day, and who lead a company that is helping Vitalyst, and six of Arizona’s County Health Departments, work through data obstacles so that we all can make better sense of the data and help formulate actions and solutions for communities to thrive.
So let’s get to it. It’s time to dig more deeply into the fascinating trials and tribulations of public health data, the rise of a series of local and statewide health dashboards that you can access to learn much more about what is affecting community health, and how we all can build a more insightful, actionable, better understanding of health historically, presently, and in the years to come.
E15: The Live Well Arizona Incubator - Part 3: Cobre Valley Collaborative
E14: The Live Well Arizona Incubator - Part 2: Coffee Pot Farms
E13: The Live Well Arizona Incubator - Part 1: South Mountain WORKS Coalition
E12: The Continuum of Housing and Health - Part 2
E11: The Continuum of Housing and Health - Part 1
E10: Meet Sonoran Prevention Works (2018 Innovation Grants Minisode Miniseries Episode 4)
E9: Meet Demand to Learn (2018 Innovation Grants Minisode Miniseries Episode 3)
E8: Meet Ndee Bikiyaa (2018 Innovation Grants Minisode Miniseries Episode 2)
E7: Meet Flowers & Bullets Collective (2018 Innovation Grants Minisode Miniseries Episode 1)
E6: In Conversation: The Farm at Los Olivos Park
E5: Minisode! Year of Healthy Communities Wrap-Up, The Good Life, Northern Arizona University, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, Obamacare Results
E4: Cover Arizona: Meet the People Behind the Connector
E3: Minisode! Obamacare, Piper Trust, Health Affairs, City of Tempe, City of Bisbee
E2: Transportation in Our Daily Lives
E1: Vitalyst Spark Teaser
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