While not strictly a medical type map, the 41 Percent NYC map of the last 10 years of abortions in the city is revealing. The map plays the data from 2000 to 2009.
- LifeNews
There is an imbalance between the rapid growth of cardiac catheterization laboratories, which provide percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures, relative to the growth in the overall U.S. population, as well as patients who experience an acute heart attack, or ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), according to a study presented March 25 at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific session.
In this study, the researchers compared changes in U.S. PCI capacity and access during the last eight years. Using geospatial and statistical analyses of data from the American Hospital Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Census Bureau, they analyzed PCI capacity relative to population density and STEMI prevalence.
...Thus, the study authors reported that PCI growth is most rapid in the east, where capacity is already sufficient and the lowest in the west where PCI capacity remains the lowest. "Efficient and equitable STEMI systems require geographical balance, which highlights a need for changes in both policy and protocols at regional levels," they wrote.
- press release
One of Nigeria’s telecommunications companies, Etisalat has partnered with Esri to deploy Android based GIS apps to map polio risk areas and tracking of routes covered by Polio immunization teams during vaccinations in the country.
The app taps ArcGIS server, with data from the device's GPS. "Uploaded server information are used for map creation (risk mapping) and generation of automated reports, which can show the distribution of risk, success, activities, findings, and plans, for polio teams, program managers, donors, and other stakeholders." Funding is from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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press release [I let Esri know that Esri is mis-expanded in the press release.]
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/28 at 03:47 AM |
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Esri was number 9 in the Top 10 Healthcare of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies put together by Fast Company. The blurb seems to refer to Esri's several year old My Place History app.
- Fast Company via @michael_d_gould
Concerned about the health of uphostry, clothing and other goods after the moth attacks in the UK? There's a map for that.
The new high tech map, developed by moth & homecare company Caraselledirect, shows where moths armies are on the move.
Tapping a postcode into the site at http://www.sosmoths.com - reveals the location and frequency of attacks in your area, day by day.
It's not clear there is any potential issues for human health.
- press release
For the first time, a highly detailed report compiled by the Cuyahoga County health board [OH]provides a wide-ranging look at the state of cancer in the county.
The Cuyahoga County Board of Health Comprehensive Cancer Report of 2011 scrutinizes all angles of the approximately 7,541 cancer cases diagnosed and the average of 3,353 cancer deaths reported every year between 2002-2006.
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It is that compilation of information -- detailing information for the county's 58 suburbs and the city of Cleveland and its 36 neighborhoods -- that local health officials say could potentially spur the community's vast health resources to better pinpoint where to target prevention efforts, treatment and other services. The report also promises to be a valuable tool that other researchers hope will be used to guide their work and to support grant applications.
- Cleveland.com
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/13 at 03:00 AM |
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University of Pennsylvania researchers created a state by state sleep map using national data collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The map suggests southerners have more sleep disturbances and daytime fatigue and westerners the least. The data is from a phone survey of 150,000 people. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medecine (subscription required) and maps are in the press release.
-via US News
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released data on worldwide obesity. The OECD report says obesity is related to inequality, with higher rates among poorer people. The data is available from OECD, but Great Lakes made the map which includes rates for girls and boys.
- Great Lakes Advocate
The first interactive global fistula map was launched on Tuesday, showing that one in 50 women receive treatment for this devastating childbirth injury which leaves women leaking urine and/or faeces uncontrollably. ...
The Global Fistula Map is a joint project by Direct Relief International, the Fistula Foundation and UNFPA, with data also contributed by EngenderHealth, Women and Health Alliance International, and the International Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeons.
The goal is to better locate services for fixing this common problem. Tech: ArcGIS Online.
- Trustlaw.org
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/28 at 06:40 AM |
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Here, we examine visually, through a series of maps, the association between obesity, diabetes, and sedentary transportation.
The maps are striking, but Anne Price and Ariel Godwin conclude:
... the relationship between sedentary travel and health outcomes can be misleading when additional contributing factors are not taken into account. While it is not our intent to claim a direct causal link between transportation modes and obesity rates, it is hard to deny the existence of some geographic patterns.
- Planetizen
Health Canada is drafting national guidelines for electricity-generating wind turbines that will establish a recommended minimum safe distance between the structures and homes. ...The Health Canada guidelines will deal with noise and shadow flicker, and will account for the power of the turbine, the size of the blade and local geography, [Dr. Moira] McKinnon [Saskatchewan's chief medical health office] said.
No doubt they'll need ot use GIS, once they figure out the details to manage noise and other impacts.
- The Phoenix Star
The [second edition of the online] British Columbia Atlas of Wellness shows that northerners are more likely to smoke, eat unhealthy food and die sooner than their counterparts in Vancouver and Victoria.
- Times Colonist
Earlier this week, the Missouri Hospital Association launched www.MissouriHealthMatters.com. I recommend checking it out. The site contains quality of care and patient satisfaction data filtered through GIS technology with hospital specific information in a dashboard format. My thanks to David Dillon, MHA's VP of media relations, for giving me the heads-up on the website. I can attest to David's observation that the reports contain the same data as reported to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, "however the interface is much more user-friendly and locally-focused."
It uses ArcGIS Explorer Onilne, which took a while to load on my machine.
- Columbia Tribune
A RESEARCH OBSERVATORY based at NUI Maynooth [Kildare, Ireland] have unveiled a new online mapping tool that aims to show exactly how some parts of Ireland are covered by hospitals or schools.
The accessibility map, produced by the All-Island Research Observatory, highlights areas based on their proximity to facilities like hospitals, primary schools and secondary schools.
The map helps show diparities in services.
- The Journal.IE
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/23 at 05:45 AM |
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Narrow your search further:
arcgis explorer online,
atlas of wellness,
british columbia,
canada,
esri,
health,
ireland,
missouri,
obesity,
service disparities,
social justice,
transportation,
wind turbines
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a new interactive web tool—the NCHHSTP Atlas—that allows users to create maps, charts, and tables using HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease (STD) data collected by CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP).
Amont other things it offers data for a number of diseases (AIDS, HIV, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and primary and secondary syphilis and more to come), for a number of years (2000-2009) and unlike other visualization tools, is powered by GIS (ArcGIS for Flex).
- AIDS.gov Blog
A Legionnaire's disease outbreak popped up in Wisconsin. But geography came to the rescue, as did good surveillance. Thomas Haupt an epidemiologist for the Wisconsin Division of Public Health explains how it was tracked to a hospital waterfall.
Well, it started off with our routine surveillance for Legionnaires' disease in Wisconsin. We did notice that within a four week period in this small area we had at least eight cases of Legionnaires' disease. Our follow-up is to ask questions as to where they may have been in the 10 days prior to their onset of illness. At least six of the patients identified that they had been in one particular hospital.
- NPR
On Curacao a GIS is helping health workers keep track of efforts to minimize dengue fever, reports of breeding grounds and the levying of fines against those not taking care in prevention.
- Amigoe
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/17 at 03:00 AM |
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