The speaker at Monday s Democratic luncheon will be Nicki Aaker, Director of Carson City Health and Human Services. Prior to her appointment in 2013, she was a senior manager at Carson City s Sierra Surgery Hospital. She holds both a Master of Science in Nursing and a Master of Public Health from the University of Nevada-Reno.
The speaker at Monday s Democratic luncheon will be Nicki Aaker, Director of Carson City Health and Human Services. Prior to her appointment in 2013, she was a senior manager at Carson City s Sierra Surgery Hospital. She holds both a Master of Science in Nursing and a Master of Public Health from the University of Nevada-Reno.
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February 4, 2021
Online interactive map called Places compares 27 health factors including heart disease, diabetes in communities across the country.
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Where you live can affect your health. And now there s a new way to measure the health of your community: a CDC data tool called Places. It s an online, hyper-local look at health factors across the country. This gives you a whole new view of the data in Places, said Karen Hacker, director at the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion.
The online interactive map tracks 27 chronic disease factors, like heart disease, diabetes and health insurance. Type in your ZIP code and you can compare the prevalence of diseases in your location to other neighborhoods or the country as a whole.