Bridging the Health Equity Divide
With more health care taking place over the Internet, vulnerable communities with limited broadband services can find themselves cut off from telehealth.
Access to broadband is correlated with race and socioeconomic status.
1 in 4
Average number without
broadband service in
majority-nonwhite households
1 in 8
Only 1 in 8 households without
broadband where the population
is more than 95% white.
Created for the Map Back At You program as part of the LMEC Bending Lines exhibition initiative Data: American Community Survey 2018 5-year estimates; Cartography: Garrett Dash Nelson