Methods & Data Sources

Pulse Atlas combines more than a dozen federal datasets — CDC PLACES, Census SAHIE and ACS, HRSA HPSA, FCC Broadband Data Collection, EPA EJScreen, CDC/ATSDR SVI, March of Dimes Maternity Care Deserts, IHME, and County Health Rankings — normalizes them to FIPS codes, and recomputes a composite gap score when underlying indicators change. This page documents every source, vintage year, formula, and intervention-scoring rule.

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