The Map Room

Note: Map descriptions are current as of their publication date. Source websites may offer more recent data than described.

Public Health Committee


Map Title: Influenza Spread: Weekly U.S. Map
Interactive: No
Printable: Yes
Description: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides a map, which is updated weekly, showing the seasonal spread of the flu.


Map Title: County Health Rankings
Interactive: Yes
Printable: Yes
Description: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation created maps that rank each county in each state on various public health outcomes.


Map Title: Nurse Practitioner State Practice Environment
Interactive: No
Printable: Yes
Description: This map, created by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, shows how states license and regulate nurse practitioners. Regulatory structures include full, reduced, and restricted practice elements.


Map Title: State Health System Rankings
Interactive: Yes
Printable: Yes
Description: The Commonwealth Fund, a private philanthropic foundation, ranked each state on its healthcare system's performance related to access, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, and healthy lives. (Connecticut was ranked 3rd in 2022.)


Map Title: Suicide Deaths for U.S. Counties
Interactive: Yes
Printable: Yes
Description: This Governing.com map shows the annual average age-adjusted suicide rates for counties between 2012 and 2016.


Map Title: Opioid Lawsuits Filed by Governments
Interactive: Yes
Printable: Yes
Description: This Governing.com map shows a partial list of government lawsuits related to the opioid drug epidemic. Cases have been filed, mostly in 2017, against pharmaceutical companies, drug distribution companies, and state pharmacy boards.