Update: Health GIS Tidbits
Update: The MRSA Atlas is live here. Powered by ArcGIS Server; registration required.
—- original post 10/26/10—-
The NY Times has a great infographic highlighting how simple and often geographic(!) changes in the lunch room can impact what students eat. When it comes to selecting in the cafeteria, geography matters!
- NY Times
Flu researchers are using a synthetic population mirroring U.S. deomgraphics and geography created by the National Institutes of Health at RTI International in North Carolina to model the spread of the disease. The data? Census 2000 + LandScan.
Researchers are launching an atlas of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) the superbug with about a 20% mortality rate to help medical personel on the front lines fight it. There’s a webinar on Oct 27 about it. “The atlases and the maps produced by the National Minority Quality Forum database are available for exclusive use by advocacy groups and similar nonprofit organizations and by policy makers (government employees; members of local and national judicial, executive, and legislative branches; and their aides). “
- press release with webinar details
