About DiversityData.org
www.diversitydata.org, was launched, Wednesday, January 24, 2007, by the Center for Advancing Health (CFAH) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).The first report describes How Metropolitan Areas Are Failing America's Children while the related website reveals socioeconmic inequalities and names best and worst metropolitan areas for children by race/ethnicity.
The report, "Children Left Behind: How Metropolitan Areas Are Failing America's Children," and a Chartbook are available for download at http://diversitydata.sph.harvard.edu.
The report is based on data drawn from the DiversityData.org website, that was developed by HSPH in partnership with CFAH with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Designed to be used by the public, the media and researchers, DiversityData.org goes beyond many similar demographic websites by including information on health factors such as disability rates, health insurance, births to teenager mothers, births to unmarried mothers, prenatal care, smoking during pregnancy, preterm births, and low birthweight rates.
Additionally, the website has interactive features allowing any user to easily create profiles for specific metropolitan areas, as well as customized rankings illustrating the metropolitan areas with the highest and lowest indicators of health, education, neighborhood conditions, and housing opportunities.
"Children Left Behind: How Metropolitan Areas Are Failing America's Children" is the first in a series of data analyses that will be developed from the DiversityData.org website. The report, by lead authors Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Associate Professor of Society, Human Development and Health at HSPH and Barbara Krimgold, Kellogg Program Director at CFAH, focuses on the well-being of America's children.
