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Mapping America's healthcare disparities

Healthcare access and outcomes vary enormously across the country from one community to another. America's healthiest communities share many common features. Click on the map below to see characteristics of each of the nation’s 306 healthcare markets. Each market is ranked on its basic features, including insurance coverage, supply of doctors and poverty rate. The markets are also ranked on three measures of healthcare quality: preventable deaths, avoidable hospitalizations and access to recommended preventive care.



Features Outcomes

Communities broken down into four groups Best 25% Worst 25%

* Due to rounding, healthcare markets with similar scores on some metrics may appear in different quartiles.

Sources: The Commonwealth Fund; U.S. Census; Dartmouth Insitute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; K. Hempstead, Rutgers University; G. Anderson, Johns Hopkins University; U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Interactive: Anthony Pesce | Reporting: Noam N. Levey