Health Atlas (2021)

<span style='color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial;'>The Health Atlas for the City of Los Angeles 2021 presents a data-driven snapshot of health conditions and outcomes in the City of Los Angeles. It illustrates geographic variation in socio-economic conditions, demographic characteristics, the physical environment, and access to support systems and services, and provides a context for understanding how these factors contribute to the health of Angelenos.<br />The data underscore a key issue: where Angelenos live often influences their health and well-being. Los Angeles is a city with great health disparities and the patterns of inequality are reflected in many of the indicators highlighted in the Health Atlas. The spatial characteristics of physical and social determinants of health have roots in structural racism and historic and ongoing discrimination. Historic policies such as redlining have had lasting effects in Los Angeles. The analysis is a first step in understanding the areas of the City burdened with the most adverse health-related conditions in order to improve health outcomes and environmental justice for all Angelenos.<br />The Health Atlas contains 115 maps covering regional context, demographic and social characteristics, economic conditions, education, health conditions, land use, transportation, food systems, crime, housing, and environmental health. In addition to displaying US Census Bureau, City, County, and other data, the Health Atlas contains several indices to facilitate comparisons across the city on subjects including environmental hazards (Map 113: Pollution Burden Index), transportation quality (Map 84: Transportation Index), and economic conditions (Map 19: Hardship Index). The Health Atlas culminates in a Community Health and Equity Index (Maps 114 and 115) which combines many of the above variables into a single index to compare health conditions across the City of Los Angeles. The Community Health and Equity Index can be used to understand the areas of the city with the highest vulnerabilities and cumulative burdens as compared to other portions of the City.<br />The Health Atlas for the City of Los Angeles was originally developed in 2013 as an early step in the process to develop a Health, Wellness, and Equity Element of the General Plan (also known as the Plan for a Healthy Los Angeles). This data set is an update of the Health Atlas, completed in 2021. The Health Element and both editions of the Health Atlas are available as PDFs on the Los Angeles City Planning website, https://planning.lacity.gov.<br /></span>