Medically Underserved Areas / Populations

[Metadata]  Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) for the State of Hawaii as of March 2025. Source: US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Downloaded by the Hawaii State GIS Program from the Federal Health Resources and Services Administrations (HRSA) website, 3/10/25 (https://data.hrsa.gov/data/download). These data describe geographic areas and populations with a lack of access to primary care health services. Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) may be a whole county or a group of contiguous counties, a group of county or civil divisions or a group of urban census tracts in which residents have a shortage of personal health services. Medically Underserved Populations (MUPs) may include groups of persons who face economic, cultural or linguistic barriers to health care. HRSA's Bureau of Health Workforce develops shortage designation criteria and uses them to decide whether or not a geographic area or population group is a MUA or MUP.For more information about this layer and attribute values and meanings please see https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/mua_medically_underserved_areas.pdf or contact the Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.