by GILARE ZADA and CHUQIN JIANG : missionlocal – excerpt (includes interactive map)
San Francisco’s public healthcare network consists of 14 primary clinics, offering general and specialized services to thousands of annual patients.
We wanted to know: How does the city allocate public health resources to different neighborhoods and populations?
And we found out: Most of San Francisco’s health clinics are in its eastern neighborhoods and downtown — the areas with the highest rates of disease and risky behavior, like smoking and drinking. Most of the funding goes to these clinics, too…
“Each clinic has its own sort of slightly different scope.”
The visualization shows a comprehensive directory of all the health data we compiled, including clinic locations, their budgets and staffing resources, and the specialized care that some of the locations offer… (more)