Vancouver launches health data dashboard to drive collective action

Vancouver has published a new open data dashboard to track progress against 23 health and wellbeing indicators.

These include datasets on the number of children living below the poverty line, the number of households spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing, and the proportion of adults who have a sense of community belonging.

As well as the most recent data for each indicator, the dashboard includes target figures and the current status of the city’s progress towards that goal.

Mary-Clare Zak, Managing Director, Social Policy and Projects Division, City of Vancouver, told Cities Today that the online dashboard has been a longstanding goal since the launch of the Hea...