Health

The UK Department of Health is drawing up a map which will pinpoint which areas of the country have the highest levels of isolation. Isolation is thought to have distinct impacts on health including the development of heart disease, high blood pressure and dimentia. - Daily Mail Police in...

The state [Texas] also conducted regional analysis using GIS mapping software to examine the capacity of providers within 30 miles of a Planned Parenthood clinic. According to the report, they found “capacity was especially robust in the Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, Houston, Austin and...

News about the flu epidemic bracing the United States and the world was much in the news this past weekend. As in the past Google.org tracks the geographic extent and intensity by the number of certain search terms that is captures from users of Google Search. Generally, Google.org spots trends...

Cornell researchers have created a method that uses geospatial algorithms, foodborne pathogen ecology and Geographic Information System (GIS) tools to predict hot spots where these pathogens may be present and spread on farms prior to harvest. Many of the recent outbreaks of foodborne...

John Taylor, a doctoral candidate working with crop sciences researcher Sarah Taylor Lovell [at the University of Illionois], was skeptical about the lists of urban gardens provided to him by local non-governmental organizations (NGOs).... Using these indicators and Google Earth images, he...

Government Technology has an interview with Jonathan Rosenberg, chief of the Healthcare Associated Infections Program at the California Department of Public Health.  Among his team's creations: ...an interactive map that charts California hospitals and assigns them symbols based on how...

TwinCities.com/The Pioneer Press offers a series of maps titled Prescription opiates and heroin in Minnesota based off the ARCOS federal drug data. More interesting to readers of this blog will be the pain required to get the data out of PDF and into Excel. Then, there was the issue of access to...

The Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) which had been asked to asked by [sic] the government to do GIS mapping of all primary health centres and suggest locations for new PHCs to cater to increase in population, has recommended that every industrial...

The following is from an interview in All Things D with former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan on his new book, The Human Face of Big Data. Did you have a particular favorite anecdote or photograph? I just came back from Australia, and they have this...

But University of Chicago Doctor David Beiser says few people know where AEDs are located and there’s no central source to find them. “At this point there isn’t one unified database of AEDs in the U.S.,” said Dr. Beiser. So Dr. Beiser set out to create one for Chicago’s Hyde Park...