GIS Study

Race and Healthcare Access in Chicago fall 2022, urban spatial analysis with Kheir Al-Kodmany project collaborators:

Chicago is still a highly segregated city. This project seeks to display the disparity in access to healthcare between the North and South Side’s residents through urban spatial analysis. The process of analyzation began with mapping racial demographics, life expectancy, pre-existing medical conditions, uninsured rates, covid-19 related death rates, locations of medical infrastructure and locations of food access. Once base data was established, a health index was created to rank the 5 “healthiest” neighborhoods, and 5 “unhealthiest” neighborhoods. Lastly, racial demographic maps were overlaid on to the final health index map in order to analyze the correlations between race and access to healthcare in Chicago.

Shashwat Arya

Punya Vats

Abdullah Kamal a health score was calculated using metrics discovered from the previous page’s spatial studies, which helped ultimately determine the top 5 healthiest and unhealthiest neighorhoods. These scores appear to strongly correlate with the intial racial demographic maps.