Markey Cancer Data Portal Provides Digital Footprint of Cancer in Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 23, 2022) — The College of Kentucky Markey Most cancers Heart’s Neighborhood Affect Workplace just lately launched Most cancers InFocus: Kentucky – a brand new, on-line knowledge mapping utility that enables customers to discover most cancers incidence and mortality knowledge alongside inhabitants demographics, social determinants of well being and behavioral danger components at varied geographic ranges throughout the Commonwealth.

Customers have the chance to create custom-made maps utilizing knowledge from quite a lot of sources and obtain the map photographs to be used in displays, proposals, studies and extra. The information behind the maps are additionally obtainable in a downloadable workbook with variable definitions and citations supplied.

“It is a useful software for stakeholders throughout Kentucky as all of us work collectively in planning and evaluating efforts to rewrite the story of most cancers in our state,” stated Pamela Hull, Ph.D., affiliate director of inhabitants science and group affect within the UK Markey Most cancers Heart and an affiliate professor of behavioral science within the UK Faculty of Medication.

Most cancers InFocus: Kentucky was created as a complement to the 2021 Kentucky Most cancers Wants Evaluation (KY CNA). This complete report resulted from a steering committee of organizations convened by the UK Markey Most cancers Heart. As varied stakeholders and community-based organizations start to make use of the KY CNA to drive their strategic planning based mostly on the info and group views illustrated, the interactive choices inside Most cancers InFocus: Kentucky will present additional course on the place the wants are in particular communities. This can enable teams throughout the state to take motion of their group to strategically goal particular areas with wanted assets in an effort to rewrite the story of most cancers in Kentucky.

“Most cancers InFocus can even have an effect past Kentucky,” stated Todd Burus, knowledge visualization specialist within the UK Markey Most cancers Heart Neighborhood Affect Workplace. “We constructed Most cancers InFocus in a means that we will simply share it with most cancers facilities in different states who can adapt it for the geographic areas that they serve.”

The UK Markey Most cancers Heart Neighborhood Affect Workplace can be showcasing this revolutionary mapping utility within the type of a poster presentation on the upcoming Most cancers Heart Neighborhood Affect Discussion board – a nationwide annual assembly of Nationwide Most cancers Institute Designated Most cancers Heart professionals. This can present the UK Markey Most cancers Heart with the chance to spearhead a brand new means wherein knowledge are accessed and used to drive change in communities nationwide.