The Arizona Department of Health Services has launched a Public Health Data Portal to help streamline its website’s navigation. And this is just phase one of the project.
The department’s website offers vast data and insight into the health of Arizonans. But finding exactly what you need may have been difficult in the past.
Wesley Kortuem with the agency says this federally funded project makes it easier to navigate to datasets, reports and other health resources.
He also says there’s more to come from this project later in the year, including an enhanced data explorer.
“You’ll be able to, once we finish this second phase, go and find information – let’s say your son has asthma and you want to know about the asthma rates in your community, you could say, ‘I want to know what are the asthma rates for children between 0 and 12 between 2010 and 2021 in Laveen,’ and it will pull it for you," Kortuem said.
For now, Kortuem says the foundation has been built and it’s brought together years of agency data into organized categories.
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