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Current Report

No. 72, September 2006

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bullet graphicCDC/NCHS GIS lecture- October 18, 2006- new geographic tools for CDC data

bullet graphicGIS and public health literature, studies and reviews

bullet graphicFederal Geographic Data Committee- 2005 Annual Report

bullet graphicFinal Thoughts- CDC symposium on mapping and eliminating health disparities

bullet graphicAppendix: Mapping Health Inequalities- stroke and HIV/AIDS

 

Past Reports

No. 71, July 2006

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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:

bullet graphicCDC/NCHS GIS lecture- June 15, 2006 – Now linked for viewing

bullet graphicNew reports- Cancer Atlas, Hunger in America, Hurricane Katrina, and Access to Food

bullet graphicFederal Geographic Data Committee- US/Canada infectious disease, and new emergency management mapping symbology

bullet graphicFinal Thoughts- “The Chronic Poverty Report”

bullet graphicAppendix: Mapping Health Inequalities- Hunger and Poverty

 

No. 70, May 2006

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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:

bullet graphicCDC/NCHS GIS lecture- June 15, 2006 – National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP)

bullet graphicReport on “Health Inequalities: Europe in Profile”

bullet graphicEnterprise GIS at CDC: Initial Developments

bullet graphicNASA’s Applied Sciences Public Health Program

bullet graphicFinal Thoughts- “GIS and Public Health: Horizons and Challenges”

bullet graphicAppendix: Mapping Health Inequalities, Cuyahoga County- Persons with Disability by Race

 

No. 69, March 2006

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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:

bullet graphicCDC/NCHS GIS lecture- April 19, 2006 -on cardiovascular disease mortality, Washington D.C.

bullet graphicReport on the new CDC Director’s Emergency Operations Center (DEOC)

bullet graphicImagery for the Nation: Special initiative of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)

bullet graphicNew research and book “Geographic Information Systems and Public Health: Eliminating Perinatal Disparity”

bullet graphicAppendix: Mapping Health Inequalities- Heart Disease Deaths

 

No. 68, January 2006

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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:

bullet graphicCDC/NCHS GIS lecture (2/25/06) on overview of Bayesian mapping

bullet graphicCDC Health Protection Research Guide: review and public comment

bullet graphicSecond in research report series: Expansion of bioterrorism modeling

bullet graphicFGDC National Spatial Data Infrastructure: Cooperative Agreements Program

bullet graphicAppendix: Mapping Health Inequalities- Children in severely distressed neighborhoods

 

No. 67, November 2005

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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:

bullet graphicCDC/NCHS GIS Lecture (12/14/05) on Bayesian Mapping

bullet graphicResearch Report on GIS and First Responder Planning

bullet graphicNew Report on Child Hunger

bullet graphicFinal Thoughts: Agenda for CDC GIS Day 2005

bullet graphicAppendix: Mapping Health Inequalities- Cancer Deaths

No. 66, September 2005

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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:

bullet graphicCDC/NCHS GIS Lecture (9/27/05) on African American Health Inequalities

bullet graphicNew Report on Health and Well-Being of America's Children, 2005

bullet graphicResearch Report on Bayesian Approach to Disease Mapping

bullet graphicNew Report on Role of Geographical Science at US Geological Survey

bullet graphicFinal Thoughts on HHS and CDC Response to Hurricane Katrina

bullet graphicAppendix: Mapping Health Inequalities- Premature Births by Maternal Race

No. 65, July 2005

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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:

bullet graphicCDC/NCHS GIS Lecture on Health Inequalities -- TBA

bullet graphic22nd Annual HBCU Summer Faculty GIS Workshop

bullet graphicState Cancer Control GIS Activities

bullet graphicGrowing Importance of 'Open Geospatial Standards'

bullet graphic11th International Medical Geography Symposium

bullet graphicAppendix: Mapping Health Inequalities- Child Maltreatment

No. 64, May 2005

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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:

bullet graphicCDC/NCHS GIS Lecture on Housing and Health--June 28, 2005

bullet graphicGIS Guidance: Lead Poisoning Report for Prevention Programs

bullet graphicMaps in American Fact Finder: Reference and Thematic

bullet graphicFuture Directions for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure

bullet graphicAppendix: Mapping Health Inequalities--Youth with Disabilities

No. 63, March 2005

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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:

bullet graphicCDC/NCHS GIS Lecture on Bayesian Mapping--March 31, 2005

bullet graphicDiscussion on Geocoding Rural Addresses

bullet graphicGIS and Cancer Research

bullet graphicHealth Disparities: An Unfinished Chapter in Public Health

bullet graphicAppendix: Shortage Areas of Primary Medical Care Professionals

No. 62, January 2005

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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:

bullet graphicFebruary 9, 2005 NCHS/CDC GIS Lecture on obesity and chronic diseases

bullet graphicAmerican Community Survey: feasibility of methods

bullet graphicRecent congressional public health-related activities

bullet graphicGeoHealth 2004: New Zealand's contribution to GIS and public health

bullet graphicMapping Health Inequalities: years of potential life lost

No. 61, November 2004
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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:  

bullet graphicDecember 7, 2004 GIS Lecture on TOXMAP

bullet graphicSpecial Report: "TOXMAP: A GIS Tool for Exploring Environmental Health Data"

bullet graphicSpecial Report: Review of Cluster Analysis Software

bullet graphicThe US National Grid

bullet graphicMapping Health Inequalities Appendix: GIS Visualization of Infant Mortality

No. 60, September 2004
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Selected topics of interest in this edition include:  

bullet graphicHRSA Geospatial Data Warehouse presentation at NCHS

bullet graphicSpecial report on CDC's BRFSS Maps 

bullet graphicFGDC Framework Standards Review Invitation

bullet graphicConference on Race/Ethnicity and Place

bullet graphicAppendix: Inadequate Prenatal Care, Summit County, Ohio

No. 59, July 2004
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t includes information on:

bullet graphic21st Annual HBCU Summer Faculty GIS Workshop

bullet graphicPopulation Distribution Data to Enhance Cancer Research

bullet graphicThe Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

bullet graphicPublic Review of FGDC Geospatial Data Framework Standards

bullet graphicMapping Health Inequalities- Appendix

No. 58, May 2004
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bullet graphicJune 15, 2004: Kernel Density Estimation and Accessibility of Physicians- GIS Guest Lecture

bullet graphicEstimating Asthma Hospitalizations in Chicago Public Schools- Invited Paper

bullet graphicCelebrating 125 Years at the United States Geological Survey- Charles "Chip" Groat

bullet graphicNew DHHS Geospatial Initiatives- Final Thoughts

bullet graphicMapping Health Inequalities- Appendix

No. 57, March 2004
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicMarch 25, 2004: Dynamic Choropleth Maps GIS Guest Lecture

bullet graphicMedical Geography Papers at the 2004 AAG Centennial Meeting

bullet graphicSpecial GIS-EPI Commentary

bullet graphicMeasuring Spatial Accessibility of Physicians in Urban Areas

bullet graphicFinal Thoughts: Your Invitation to Publish Maps on Health Disparity

No. 56, January 2004
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicJanuary 13, 2004: DC Atlas Cartography and GIS Guest Lecture

bullet graphicGIS Outreach: Complete the Survey to Visualize Uncertainty

bullet graphicSpecial Report on the CDC Atlas of Reproductive Health

bullet graphicSpecial Paper on the Use of Kriging to Create Exposure Maps

bullet graphicFinal Thoughts: Welcome GIS and Public Health 2004!

No. 55, November 2003
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicJanuary 13, 2004 NCHS Cartography and GIS Guest Lecture: D.C. Atlas

bullet graphicInvitation for Papers on GIS and Prostate Cancer

bullet graphicFairfax County VA: GIS Notifier System

bullet graphicNSGIC Homeland Security Resolution

bullet graphicGIS Thoughts for CDC Epidemiology Intelligence Officers

No. 54, September 2003
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicGIS lecture on biosurveillance of syndromic data (viewed by many of you)

bullet graphicSpecial report on the First 5 California GIS

bullet graphicSpecial report on GIS and childhood lead exposure in North Carolina

bullet graphicProposal for a cost-effective NSDI road network

bullet graphicThe National Library of Medicine's pilot TOXMAP project

bullet graphicNASA and CIESIN's "Confidentiality and Geospatial Data Workshop"

No. 53, July 2003
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicCDC 2003 Cancer Conference

bullet graphicNew CDC Reproductive Health Atlas

bullet graphicJuly 23 NCHS Cartography and GIS Guest Lecture

bullet graphicGEODATA.GOV Launched

bullet graphicMid-Year Perspective GIS and Public Health

No. 52, May 2003

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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicMay 28, 2003 NCHS Cartography and GIS Guest Lecture

bullet graphicStudy of GIS and Environmental Risk and Justice

bullet graphicUS EPA Green Book: Nonattainment Areas for Criteria Pollutants

bullet graphicHomeland Security and Geographic Information Systems

bullet graphicUSGS and Public Health: Research Agendas and Opportunities for Partnerships

No. 51, March 2003
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicApril 17, 2003 NCHS Cartography and GIS Guest Lecture

bullet graphicCDC’s Interactive Injury Mortality Atlas

bullet graphicGIS Study of Campylobacter Infection in South Australia

bullet graphicUSGS National Health-Related Research Conference

bullet graphicUSGS “Customer Listening Sessions: The Role of Public Science

No. 50, January 2003
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicJanuary 15 NCHS GIS Lecture by Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

bullet graphicBrief Primer on Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR)

bullet graphicStudy in Yellow Fever Disease Vector Ecology

bullet graphicNational Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals

bullet graphicAdjusted Census 2000 Numbers

bullet graphicA Strategy for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure

No. 49, November 2002
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicNews from the Department of Health and Human Services agencies

bullet graphicAvailability of XML Web Services slide presentation

bullet graphicCDC moves forward on Environmental Health Tracking Network

bullet graphicMore on OMB's Geospatial One-Stop and E-Government

bullet graphicGeoHealth 2002--new milestone for public health and GIS

No. 48, September 2002
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicGIS Lecture on XML Web Services

bullet graphicZCTAs and ZIP Codes

bullet graphicNRC Study of New Technologies in GIScience

bullet graphicRelease of Long Island Cancer Study

bullet graphicDHHS Strategic Plan

No. 47, July 2002
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphic19th Annual HBCU Summer Faculty GIS Workshop

bullet graphicHHS National Leadership Summit on Minority Health

bullet graphicPrimary Care Service Area Project (PCSA)

bullet graphicOMB and FGDC on Geospatial Coordination

bullet graphicMinority Health Disparities and GIScience

No. 46, May 2002
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicBill Moyers report on Environmental Toxins and Children's Health

bullet graphicNCHS GIS Guest Lecture on Remote Sensing and Public Health

bullet graphic Census Bureau's American Community Survey--Sampling begins in 2003

bullet graphicFGDC Tribal Working Group Charter--Tribal Spatial Data Development

bullet graphicRegional Health-Environment Alliance--Access, Integration, Forecast, and Response

No. 45, March 2002
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicFunding available for metadata assistance (FGDC CAP Program)

bullet graphicApril 16 NCHS "Metadata Tutorial" Presentation

bullet graphicRemote Sensing and Human Welfare proposed study from National Academy of Sciences

bullet graphicHousing and Urban Development perspective on chronic disease and housing

bullet graphicNYC perspective on homeland security based on 9/11/01

bullet graphicCDC's goal of Environmental Health Tracking Network with focus on chronic disease

No. 44, January 2002
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicFebruary 12 NCHS Cartography and GIS Guest Lecture

bullet graphicSpecial Report on Historical Black Colleges and Universities Summer GIS Workshops

bullet graphicSpecial Report from the Open GIS Consortium

bullet graphicDHHS Interim Report on Privacy and Confidentiality

bullet graphicE-Government Geospatial One-Stop plan from OMB and FGDC

bullet graphicOn the Detection of Clusters

No. 43, November 2001
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphic14th Annual NCHS Geography Awareness Week GIS Program

bullet graphicSpecial Report to Protect Public Drinking Water in Chester County, PA

bullet graphicPublic Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Program

bullet graphicHomeland Security and Geographic Information Systems

bullet graphicPublic Health and Bioterrorism

N.No. 42, September 2001
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphic September 13 and October 17 NCHS GIS lectures

bullet graphic Report on 18th Annual HBCU Summer Faculty GIS Workshop

bullet graphic Mapping Teenage Birth Rates in California

bullet graphic Web Access and the New York State Cancer Registry

bullet graphic National Spatial Data Infrastructure Developments in Maryland

bullet graphic Animation: A Visual Tool for Public Health Display and Analysis

No. 41, July 2001
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphic GIScience and Vector-Borne Diseases

bullet graphic Digital Earth-Virtual Representation of the Planet

bullet graphic July 23 and August 15 NCHS GIS Lectures

bullet graphic GIS Summer Training Opportunities

bullet graphic 18th Annual HBCU Summer Faculty GIS Workshop

No. 40, May 2001
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphic May 16, 2001, NCHS Geocoding Program

bullet graphic Mississippi Delta Project

bullet graphic Update on West Nile Virus activites

bullet graphic FGDC Cooperative Agreement Awards

bullet graphic Vector-Borne Disease Initiative

No. 39, March 2001
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphic Atlas of Prenatal Care Utilization, California 1998

bullet graphic Wyoming Department of Health and GIS: Epi Maps

bullet graphic Upcoming NCHS Cartography and GIS Guest Lecture

bullet graphic National Science and Technology Report

bullet graphic NSDI Community Demonstration Projects

bullet graphic The Role of Scale

No. 38, January 2001
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicGroundwater Monitoring in Mahoning County, Ohio

bullet graphicClimate Atlas of the United States

bullet graphicPublic Health GIS at The 2001 AAG Meeting

bullet graphicFGDC Cooperative Agreements Program

bullet graphicDigital Government Consortium GIS Research

No. 37, November 2000
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphic13th Annual NCHS Geography Awareness Week

bullet graphicEnvironmental Justice and GIS report

bullet graphicDeduplicating address records

bullet graphicCDC/ATSDR Global Health Strategy

bullet graphicFGDC Metadata Training

bullet graphicNew Developments in Crisis Response and Management

No. 36, September 2000
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicSeptember 7 and October 24 NCHS GIS presentations

bullet graphicAvailability of West Nile Virus multimedia and interactive maps

bullet graphicAge-Adjustment of rates using new 2000 population standard

bullet graphicDHHS report on racial and ethnic data

bullet graphicOMB Geospatial Information Roundtable

No. 35, July 2000
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphic17th Annual Historical Black Colleges and Universities GIS

bullet graphicComputations for geographic data masking

bullet graphicJuly 19 and September 7 NCHS GIS presentations

bullet graphicJuly 27 GIS session at NCHS Data Users Conference

bullet graphicThe new NCHS GIS Web site

No. 34, May 2000
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicGIS to Improve Public Health

bullet graphicGIS and the Epidemic Intelligence Service

bullet graphicTelephone sampling and the use of ZIP codes for spatial analysis

bullet graphicThe GIS vision of the U.S. Coast Guard's National Response Center (NRC)

No. 33, March 2000
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicThe GIS part of the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project

bullet graphicThe Second International Health Geographics Conference

bullet graphicOpen GIS Web Map Server Interface Specification

bullet graphicNCHS legislative activities

bullet graphicThe National Spatial Data Infrastructure, the National Atlas of the United States of AmericaTM and Census 2000

No. 32, January 2000
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicGIS Models to Study EMF and Childhood Leukemia

bullet graphicHealth Care and Financing Administration’s social marketing strategy

bullet graphicAn oral health initiative

bullet graphicThe Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States

bullet graphicNational Spatial Data Infrastructure

No. 31, November 1999
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicMapping cancer sources in New York

bullet graphicThe availability of CrimeStat software

bullet graphicGIS papers presented at American Public Health Association

bullet graphicMedical privacy and confidentiality issues facing congressional review

bullet graphicThe Chaordic Alliance

bullet graphicSpatial data collection accomplishments

No. 30, September 1999
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This report includes information on:

bullet graphicIntegrated Information Solutions in the 21st Century

bullet graphicThe Historical Black Colleges and Universities Summer Faculty Geographic Information Systems Workshop

bullet graphicThe Historical Black Colleges and Universities Summit and Spatial Data Workshop

bullet graphicSelected papers and workshops at the International Workshop on Health Related Research Methods and Data, the National Environmental Health Association conference, and the National Association of County and City Health Officials

bullet graphicData needs for improved public health surveillance

No. 29, July 1999
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No. 28, May 1999
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No. 27, March 1999
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