The health of children from birth to age 17 depends on external factors affecting their physical, mental, and social well-being. These factors include socioeconomic status, access to quality education, family dynamics, neighborhood safety, and community resources. All significantly influence a child’s overall health and development.
Over the past two years the New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation has been working to create the first Children’s Health Dashboard, an online resource to help stakeholders in the field, policy makers and others to:
- Gain an understanding of the top conditions that drive children’s health in New Hampshire
- Identify disparities and inequities within regions to develop policies that promote equity, inclusion, and social justice
- Inspire new ideas for solutions to existing problems or challenges
- Influence policy decisions by raising awareness and mobilizing support.
We designed the dashboard to look behind statistics to understand how 16 external factors, like living in poverty, being bullied at school, living in a single parent family or receiving SNAP, affect children’s health and well-being in our state. By looking at these interconnected conditions, we can get a clearer picture of what shapes children’s lives.
What’s different about the Children’s Health Dashboard is that it focuses on the story behind the numbers. The 16 indicators were chosen based on published research that documents the measures of and influences on children’s health and well-being.
Our goal with this project is to highlight key issues by region, explain the issue using data visualization, and then offer evidence-based strategies in which either policy, investments, or interventions could impact them.
We are offering 3 pre-launch webinars to preview the Children’s Health Dashboard for our stakeholders and answer your questions about it. All sessions will cover the same content. Please note that registration for each webinar is limited to 500 participants.
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