Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Health Attention Professionals On Twitter


Creation Pinpoint has used CartoDB's Torque library to exercise a mapped visualization of the increment of wellness attention professionals on Twitter. The map is interesting itself, animating the position out of wellness attention professionals on Twitter over time.

Creation Pinpoint has too released a video of the map amongst an accompanying animated delineate of piece of occupation chart. The delineate of piece of occupation nautical chart doesn't seem on the actual map, in addition to then it is possible that the delineate of piece of occupation nautical chart was superimposed inwards video post-production. However it should travel possible to hack a CartoDB map to display an animated delineate of piece of occupation nautical chart inwards this way, afterwards all the information is all there.

I intend this would travel a corking add-on to the Torque library. If you lot desire to plough over this hack a become the code for Torque is available on GitHub. If you lot succeed delight allow me know.

Saturday, October 15, 2022

Mapping Hiv/Aids Inward San Francisco


The San Francisco Department of Public Health has released an Atlas of HIV/AIDS inwards San Francisco. The map helps position areas of the urban heart amongst relatively high rates of novel infection too assist direct the placement of prevention services.

The map reveals that the Castro remains abode to the largest unwrap of those living amongst HIV/AIDS too those newly infected. The map includes information from 2003-2010 too tin live on filtered past times year, sex, historic stream too race. It likewise possible to explore survival rates inwards each of the San Francisco neighborhoods.

Sunday, April 17, 2022

The Map Of Human Diseases


The Tapei Medical University in addition to the University of New South Wales has used the Google Maps API to map the relationships betwixt dissimilar human diseases. The Disease Map is an endeavour to visualize the associations betwixt dissimilar human disorders.

Each circle on the map represents a unmarried human disorder every mo classified yesteryear the International Classification of Diseases. The circle sizes reverberate the prevalence of a illness inward a given age/gender grouping in addition to the colours fit to i of 17 specific categories of diseases.

Sunday, April 10, 2022

Where Non To Purchase & Consume Nutrient Inwards Novel York


The New York World has mapped the New York State Department of Agriculture as well as Markets supermarket inspections from Jan 2008 to July 2013.

Inspectors catch every grocery shop at to the lowest degree in 1 lawsuit a year. The New York World has mapped all the supermarkets that had 'critical deficiencies' flagged inward the inspections. Users tin search the map past times neighborhood, zipcode or address to detect the local supermarkets to a greater extent than or less them that convey been shown to convey issues deemed every bit "an immediate threat to the populace wellness as well as welfare."

 has mapped the New York State Department of Agriculture as well as Markets supermarket inspectio Where Not to Buy & Eat Food inward New York
The NYC BigMaps has used the Your Mapper map creation tool to map eatery inspections as well as 311 service calls inward New York City.

The eatery inspections map displays New York City Department of Health inspections across five boroughs since Jan 2008. You tin search the map past times category, engagement range, keyword, as well as location. The map as well as then displays restaurants on the map at the place y'all searched.

Green map markers betoken restaurants amongst no wellness violations.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

The Map Of Human Diseases


The Tapei Medical University in addition to the University of New South Wales has used the Google Maps API to map the relationships betwixt dissimilar human diseases. The Disease Map is an endeavour to visualize the associations betwixt dissimilar human disorders.

Each circle on the map represents a unmarried human disorder every mo classified yesteryear the International Classification of Diseases. The circle sizes reverberate the prevalence of a illness inward a given age/gender grouping in addition to the colours fit to i of 17 specific categories of diseases.

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Where Non To Purchase & Consume Nutrient Inwards Novel York


The New York World has mapped the New York State Department of Agriculture as well as Markets supermarket inspections from Jan 2008 to July 2013.

Inspectors catch every grocery shop at to the lowest degree in 1 lawsuit a year. The New York World has mapped all the supermarkets that had 'critical deficiencies' flagged inward the inspections. Users tin search the map past times neighborhood, zipcode or address to detect the local supermarkets to a greater extent than or less them that convey been shown to convey issues deemed every bit "an immediate threat to the populace wellness as well as welfare."

 has mapped the New York State Department of Agriculture as well as Markets supermarket inspectio Where Not to Buy & Eat Food inward New York
The NYC BigMaps has used the Your Mapper map creation tool to map eatery inspections as well as 311 service calls inward New York City.

The eatery inspections map displays New York City Department of Health inspections across five boroughs since Jan 2008. You tin search the map past times category, engagement range, keyword, as well as location. The map as well as then displays restaurants on the map at the place y'all searched.

Green map markers betoken restaurants amongst no wellness violations.

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Mapping Us Medical Prices


BetterDoctor's PriceMaps allows yous to compare the cost of mutual medical procedures charged past times hospitals throughout the USA. Simply lead a status from the drop-down bill of fare together with the cost charged past times hospitals across the province is displayed on the Google Map.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 light-green marking indicates the cheapest prices inside the map's boundaries. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cherry-red marking signifies the virtually expensive prices. The map sidebar likewise displays each hospital's U.S. News ranking together with U.S. News score.


BestMedicarePrice is a Google Map that allows yous to discovery the prices charged past times hospitals for the altitude 100 virtually oft billed procedures.

To search the map only lead a physical care for from the drop-down menu. The prices charged past times hospitals for the physical care for are hence displayed on the map. If yous click on a cost on the map yous tin sentiment the hospital's name, the Medicare reimbursement together with the actual expected cost.


The New York Times has likewise published an interesting Medicare Map that shows how much dissimilar hospitals accuse Medicare throughout the province for the same treatment.

The map compares the charges made at 3,300 hospitals nationwide for the 100 virtually unremarkably performed treatments together with procedures. The colored markers on the map exhibit whether private hospitals charged less than the average (blue markers), one to two times the average (yellow) or twice the national average (red).

Users tin click on private hospitals to sentiment how much they charged Medicare inwards v mutual types of representative together with across a attain of other types of medical case.


NerdWallet’s Best Hospitals cost comparing application helps yous search for prices charged past times local hospitals. You tin browse the application past times specialty, state, or procedure.

If yous search Best Hospitals past times place together with physical care for the application volition furnish a recommended infirmary together with a Google Map showing all local hospitals where the physical care for is available. All the hospitals are likewise listed beneath the map, where yous tin compare the prices charged past times each hospital.

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Flu Vaccination Locations On Google Maps


Flu Near You is tracking instances of flu throughout northward America. The information for the map comes from users who submit weekly wellness reports to Flu Near You.

The site uses Google Maps to plot the place of users' wellness reports. Blue markers correspond 'no symptoms', xanthous markers dot 'some symptoms together with dark markers 'influenza similar symptoms'. H5N1 estrus map layer also displays the flu degree inwards each state.

Users tin rate the axe also click on each solid soil on the map to sentiment a breakdown of the set out of reports of flu at the solid soil level. Obviously the Flu Near You flu incidence reports are solely every moment expert every moment the information beingness entered. Probably the close useful affair on the map is a search facility to detect nearby flu vaccination locations.


The information for the vaccination locator comes from the HealthMap Vacine Finder. The HealthMap Vaccine Finder is a service that helps you lot detect locations that offering immunizations for a set out of wellness conditions.

Google created a Flu Vaccine Finder inwards reply to the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic. In 2012 HealthMap took over from Google past times creating the novel HealthMap Vaccine Finder, which allows users to search for flu vaccination locations together with x additional adult vaccines.

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Health Comparing Maps

The tendency inwards online mapping seems to make got moved away from edifice historic flow maps together with onto wellness comparing maps. In the concluding half dozen months of 2013 nosotros saw a flurry of building historic flow maps. So far inwards 2014 the almost apparent tendency inwards novel online maps seems to endure inwards the expanse of health.


CalQualityCare.org allows Californians to researchh data on California hospitals, medical groups, nursing homes, together with other long-term attention facilities. Enter a zero code or address into the CalQualityCare.org search box together with you lot tin stance all the nearby wellness facilities on a Google Map.

Select a facility on the map together with you lot tin stance the facility's ratings inwards a hit of patient sense together with patient security areas.


Thanks to ProPublica nosotros straightaway likewise make got a Google Map that allows you lot to discovery nearby emergency rooms together with discovery out which has the shortest average waiting time. The ER Wait Watcher lets you lot search for whatever address inwards the U.S.A. together with visualize all nearby emergency rooms. Not alone does it demo you lot all the nearby emergency rooms but it displays the average waiting times together with tells you lot how long it volition make got to buy the farm in that place from your electrical flow location.


In 2013 the New York Times published an interesting Medicare Map that shows how much dissimilar hospitals accuse Medicare throughout the province for the same treatment.

The map compares the charges made at 3,300 hospitals nationwide for the 100 almost unremarkably performed treatments together with procedures. The colored markers on the map demo whether private hospitals charged less than the average (blue markers), 1 to two times the average (yellow) or twice the national average (red).

Users tin click on private hospitals to stance how much they charged Medicare inwards 5 mutual types of illustration together with across a hit of other types of medical case.  


BetterDoctor's PriceMaps allows you lot to compare the cost of mutual medical procedures charged past times hospitals throughout the USA. Simply pick out a status from the drop-down card together with the cost charged past times hospitals across the province is displayed on the Google Map.

H5N1 greenish mark indicates the cheapest prices inside the map's boundaries. H5N1 scarlet mark signifies the almost expensive prices. The map sidebar likewise displays each hospital's U.S.A. News ranking together with U.S.A. News score.


BestMedicarePrice is a Google Map that allows you lot to discovery the prices charged past times hospitals for the pinnacle 100 almost oftentimes billed procedures.

To search the map but pick out a physical care for from the drop-down menu. The prices charged past times hospitals for the physical care for are therefore displayed on the map. If you lot click on a cost on the map you lot tin stance the hospital's name, the Medicare reimbursement together with the actual expected cost.

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Emergency Room Waiting Times Mapped


We've seen a publish of proficient maps latterly that allow you lot to uncovering out how much unlike hospitals accuse for Medicare (The NYT Medicare Map and BestMedicarePrice), too that help you lot compare the cost of mutual medical procedures charged past times hospitals throughout the USA (PriceMaps).

Thanks to ProPublica nosotros at i time conduct maintain a Google Map that allows you lot to uncovering nearby emergency rooms too uncovering out which has the shortest average waiting time. The ER Wait Watcher lets you lot search for whatsoever address inward the U.S. too visualize all nearby emergency rooms. Not exclusively does it present you lot all your nearby emergency rooms simply it displays the average waiting times too tells you lot how long it volition conduct maintain to overstep away in that place from your electrical flow location.

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Mapping Teenage Pregnancy


The UK's Office for National Statistics has released a powerful mapped visualization of Under xviii Conception Rates inwards England & Wales.

The map allows users to explore excogitation rates betwixt 1998 together with 2012 at local ascendence level. The tool shows how nether xviii excogitation rates convey changed over this fourth dimension menstruum together with enables comparisons betwixt unlike local regime together with betwixt a selected local ascendence together with the overall national picture.


This novel tool is simply the latest inwards a serial of mapped visualizations of Great Britain information past times the Office for National Statistics. In the past times the ONS has released a release of Fusion Tables powered Google Maps to visualize Great Britain economical & demographic data. Here are simply a few of their Great Britain maps:

The Income Estimates Map is a map that allows users to stance the estimated average weekly identify income for neighbourhoods throughout the UK. Users tin forcefulness out click on a place or role the search box to search for an address together with stance the average weekly income inwards that area.

The Urban Rural definition Map is a map of the Great Britain showing whether each neighbourhood is designated every bit urban, rural or 'town or fringe'. The Public together with Private Sector Employment Map shows the subregional distribution of world together with somebody sector occupation together with allows users to explore the distribution inwards their area. The Households inwards Poverty Estimates Map provides estimates of the proportion of households inwards poverty inwards Great Britain neighbourhoods. 

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Health Attention Professionals On Twitter


Creation Pinpoint has used CartoDB's Torque library to exercise a mapped visualization of the increment of wellness attention professionals on Twitter. The map is interesting itself, animating the position out of wellness attention professionals on Twitter over time.

Creation Pinpoint has too released a video of the map amongst an accompanying animated delineate of piece of occupation chart. The delineate of piece of occupation nautical chart doesn't seem on the actual map, in addition to then it is possible that the delineate of piece of occupation nautical chart was superimposed inwards video post-production. However it should travel possible to hack a CartoDB map to display an animated delineate of piece of occupation nautical chart inwards this way, afterwards all the information is all there.

I intend this would travel a corking add-on to the Torque library. If you lot desire to plough over this hack a become the code for Torque is available on GitHub. If you lot succeed delight allow me know.

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Mapping Hiv/Aids Inward San Francisco


The San Francisco Department of Public Health has released an Atlas of HIV/AIDS inwards San Francisco. The map helps position areas of the urban heart amongst relatively high rates of novel infection too assist direct the placement of prevention services.

The map reveals that the Castro remains abode to the largest unwrap of those living amongst HIV/AIDS too those newly infected. The map includes information from 2003-2010 too tin live on filtered past times year, sex, historic stream too race. It likewise possible to explore survival rates inwards each of the San Francisco neighborhoods.

Monday, July 12, 2021

Mapping London's Cholera Outbreak


Sooner or afterwards all online mapping platforms must travel used to recreate John Snow's 1854 point map of cholera deaths inwards London's Soho.

Snow plotted the deaths caused yesteryear cholera around Broad Street inwards Soho together with the place of 11 H2O pumps used yesteryear the locals. The distribution of the dots helped Snow notice that cholera occurred close oftentimes amid those who drank from the Broad Street H2O pump.

Snow's map helped to disprove the thence pop theory that diseases such every bit cholera together with bubonic plague were air borne together with spread yesteryear 'bad air'. These days John Snow's map seems to travel close used yesteryear neo-geographers to examination the capabilities of online mapping platforms.

This Esri map of John Snow's Map is a prissy illustration of how John Snow's information tin move travel used every bit information layers on a digital map. John Snow's Map uses an overlay of Snow's master map every bit 1 layer. The locations of the H2O pumps are available inwards some other layer together with the locations of the recorded deaths has been added every bit even thence some other layer.

For expert mensurate the map's creator has likewise added a Flickr layer to the map thence that yous tin move thought photos of the John Snow pub, the Broad Street H2O meat together with the John Snow plaque on Broad Street.

If yous desire to exercise your ain version of John Snow's map thence yous tin move catch the information inwards a break of formats from Robin's Blog. Robin's Blog has geo-coded the locations of the H2O pumps together with cholera deaths together with provides options to download the information every bit raster files, KML files or inwards a Google Fusion Table.

Monday, May 17, 2021

Tracking Together With Mapping The Mers Virus


Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory disease caused past times a coronavirus called MERS-CoV. The infection tin laissez passer on the axe drive severe needlelike respiratory illness, fever together with shortness of breath. Currently the infection has a mortality charge per unit of measurement of some 27%.

MERS has together with therefore far largely been confined to the Arabian Peninsula merely a few cases convey likewise been reported inwards Europe together with final calendar week the get-go instance was reported inwards the United States. The MERS Corona Map is tracking occurrences of the infection some the world.

The map uses information from the World Health Organization together with wellness ministries to rail the spread of the infection. Colored round out map markers demo the release of people infected inwards cities. You tin laissez passer on the axe click on the markers to persuasion the full release of infections together with the release of deaths caused past times the virus.

The map likewise allows you lot to filter the map to demo the latest cities to study infections or to persuasion the cities that convey reported the well-nigh infections.

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Mapping The Deadly Ebola Virus Outbreak


The UK's Channel iv News has released an interactive map which charts the spread of the electrical flow outbreak of Ebola inwards West Africa. The map uses Knight Lab's StoryMapsJS narrative mapping platform to plot the spread of the deadly virus from rural Republic of Guinea to Lagos.

The Deadly Spread of Ebola map includes embedded videos of Channel iv News reports well-nigh the electrical flow outbreak. The map likewise includes a breakdown on the discover of people infected in addition to the discover of people who accept died inwards the countries affected yesteryear the virus.


Al Jeezra has likewise released a map to nautical chart where cases of Ebola accept been reported. Mapping the World's Worst Ebola Epidemic uses information from the World Health Organization, the Centres for Disease Control in addition to Prevention in addition to Liberia's wellness ministry.

The map shows the discover of reported cases in addition to the discover of deaths inwards regions of Guinea, Sierra Leone in addition to Liberia. The map likewise highlights other countries which accept suffered from Ebola outbreaks inwards the past.

Friday, March 26, 2021

Mapping Preventable Disease


British doc Andrew Wakefield has a lot to respond for. His fraudulent research paper, claiming a link betwixt the measles vaccination as well as autism, has proved to last an international wellness disaster. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 British General Medical Council research constitute 4 counts of dishonesty inward his newspaper as well as Wakefield is similar a shot barred from practicing medicine inward the UK.

Despite this in that place is even as well as therefore an alarmingly high release of idiotic parents some the basis refusing to permit their children to last vaccinated against measles as well as other preventable diseases. This Council for Foreign Relations map visualizes Vaccine Preventable Outbreaks around the world.

The rising inward measles is non the exclusively tragedy visualized yesteryear this Google Map. The map plots outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, as well as other diseases that are easily preventable yesteryear cheap as well as effective vaccines.


On a to a greater extent than local score this map of California’s Growing Public Health Threat shows vaccination exemption rates inward California's kindergartens. The kindergartens on the map are color-coded to demo their score of 'personal belief' exemption rates.

About 950 of the kindergartens on the map bring exemption rates exceeding 8%, This is the score higher upward which experts tell an epidemic is likely. That is a hell of a lot of stupid parents.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Mapping The Ebola Outbreak - Business Office Two


HealthMap is a Google Maps based application that plots real-time worldwide infectious illness outbreaks to a greater extent than or less the world. HealthMap has straightaway released a map to runway the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

The 2014 Ebola Outbreak map tracks the publish of deaths inwards each affected West African country. The map equally good allows you lot to plot the evolution in addition to spread of the viral outbreak over time. If you lot role the controls beneath the map you lot tin flame rewind the map to the start outbreak of a mystery hemorrhagic fever which killed 23 people inwards Republic of Guinea inwards March.

You tin flame in addition to then forrad through the timeline to nautical chart the spread of the disease. If you lot choose the acquaint engagement you lot tin flame read the latest Ebola reports tracked past times HealthMap in addition to equally good sentiment the latest expiry cost from the virus inwards Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria in addition to Liberia.

The UK's Channel four News has equally good released an interactive narrative map, The Deadly Spread of Ebola, which charts the spread of the electrical current outbreak of Ebola inwards West Africa. Al Jeezra's Mapping the World's Worst Ebola Epidemic uses information from the World Health Organization, the Centres for Disease Control in addition to Prevention in addition to Liberia's wellness ministry building to monitor the electrical current outbreak

Monday, March 8, 2021

Mapping The Ebola Outbreak - Business Office Three


Over the final duet of weeks a issue of maps bring been released tracking the Ebola outbreak inwards western Africa. Today the World Health Organisation reported that the issue of Ebola cases has risen to 1,975 as well as at that spot bring been 1,069 related deaths.

HealthMap are currently tracking the issue of deaths inwards each affected West African province amongst their 2014 Ebola Outbreak map. The UK's Channel iv News has besides released an interactive narrative map, The Deadly Spread of Ebola, which charts the spread of the electrical flow outbreak of Ebola inwards West Africa. Al Jeezra's Mapping the World's Worst Ebola Epidemic uses information from the World Health Organization, the Centres for Disease Control as well as Prevention as well as Liberia's wellness ministry building to monitor the electrical flow outbreak.

Today The Guardian published an Esri map, Ebola Outbreaks from 1976 to Now. The map explores the history of the deadly virus from the start known representative inwards the Congo-Kinshasa inwards 1976 to the electrical flow cases inwards Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, as well as Nigeria.

Saturday, August 15, 2020

The Best Countries To Live On Old


The HelpAge International Global AgeWatch index assesses the character of life for 91% of the world's older people inwards 96 countries. The index ranks countries past times how good their ageing populations are faring using 4 telephone commutation criteria: income, health, capability in addition to an enabling environment.

The Global Rankings Map uses the index to visualize the information for the 96 assessed countries. The map uses a dark-green to cerise color scale to demo the best to the worst countries to hold upwards old. You tin click on whatever of the countries on the map to sentiment how the province fares nether each of the 4 criteria in addition to click through to read the sum assessment on the HelpAge International website.

You tin compare the 2014 AgeWatch Index to the 2013 results past times checking out this map of the 2013 AgeWatch Index.