Announcing the New Virginia Rural Health Data Portal

The Virginia Rural Health Data Portal puts information, that was once scattered, in one place and in your hands. Create, print and download maps, charts and graphs. Now you have the tools to tell your rural health story.

The Virginia Rural Health Data Council, in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Health and the Virginia Rural Health Association, are pleased to introduce the Virginia Rural Health Data Portal, a web-based tool that has been developed to provide a unique source of information on topics of special interest to rural health providers, researchers, grant writers, and others interested in telling their story on health issues facing rural populations in Virginia. The data currently presented in the portal are related to the issues and strategies defined in the Virginia State Rural Health Plan. It is anticipated that as additional issues are studied, new data sets will be added to the site. In addition, there will be several improvements added in the next few weeks, so check back often!

This is how you use the mapping tool:


This is how you generate charts and graphs:


Let us know what you think!

The Rural America At A Glance Series

The Rural America At A Glance series highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. Reports in this series use current social and economic data to highlight population, labor market, income, and poverty trends in rural areas. The reports provide information on key rural conditions and trends for use by public and private decisionmakers and others in efforts to enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life for rural people and their communities.

In this series...
Rural America At A Glance
2008 (EIB-40)
2007 (EIB-31)
2006 (EIB-18)
2005 (EIB-4)
2004 (AIB-793)
2003 (RDRR-97-1)
2002 (RDRR-94-1)
Rural Broadband At A Glance (EIB-47)
Rural Children At A Glance (EIB-1)
Rural Education At A Glance (RDRR-98)
Rural Employment At A Glance (EIB-21)
Rural Hispanics At A Glance (EIB-8)
Rural Transportation At A Glance (AIB-795)
Rural Poverty At A Glance (RDRR-100)

Small Area Health Insurance Estimates Released

The U.S. Census Bureau released an update to their model-based Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) today. This release provides state and county-level estimates of uninsurance by age, sex, and <= 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level. More information on these estimates is available at the SAHIE web site.