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Animated Obesity Map
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Cartography blog (via Boing Boing) link to an animated obesity map for the US. From the report: "The burgeoning percentage of heavy Americans has economic consequences, too. Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and RTI International estimated that 2003 health-care costs attributable to obesity reached $75 billion, with taxpayers picking up about half of the bill through programs like Medicare and Medicaid."
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GIS for Fighting Obesity
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All Points Blog links to a profile about a researcher working on GIS applied to healthcare, specifically obesity. From the profile: "The availability of healthful food is a contributing factor. One example: Pittsburgh’s Hill District. Kurland has used GIS to show how difficult it is for Hill residents to get to stores that sell healthful food; the entire neighborhood is served only by convenience stores. And, with low income levels in the area, many residents don’t own cars to get to full-service grocery stores."
Patients per Doctor World Map
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Vector One links to a patients per doctor world map: "Remarkably, Cuba leads the world (or at least those countries shown on this map) in the patients per doctor ratio. Other countries doing very well include the successor states to the communist bloc nations, which generally had good (and cheap) health care, and the developed (capitalist) nations in Europe and beyond - although the Netherlands is quite far down, and behind neighbouring countries such as Denmark, Belgium, France and Germany, if ever so slightly." See below other similar maps.
Mapping Obesity, Pollution and a Game
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Some not-so-closely related geoblog entries. First is Spatial Sustain linking to an article showing correlation between the spatial distribution of fast food restaurants and obesity in Canada. Very Spatial discuss MapEcos a site mapping U.S. industrial pollution. And finally if you have some time during the holidays, APB links to an article about the Traveler IQ Challenge online game, I admit I tried the game some time ago and its simplicity and educative components charmed me. From the MapEcos article: "It offers information on the environmental performance of more 20,000 industrial facilities across the country. Visitors use an interactive map to reveal government data on toxic pollution as well as information from the facilities themselves on what they are going to protect the environment, being gathered by the site's developers." Several related stories below.
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