| Cholera Mapping & Tracking | A/H1N1 Influenza Monitoring |
| Pan American Health Organization | World Health Organization |
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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with more than 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system. Patricia Nájera-Aguilar is the Geographic Information Systems Consultant in the International Health Regulation - Alert & Response, and Epidemic Diseases Team in PAHO’s Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control Area. Read the full story >> | InstantAtlas has been at the forefront of reporting the outbreak and evolution of the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic in by global, regional and national health organizations. At the World Health Organization, Weekly Situation Updates are now enhanced with new interactive map timelines to track qualitative pandemic indicators temporally. Using special URL-parameters, the same report is used to link the user directly into each of the chosen themes : (1) Geographic spread of influenza activity; (2) Trend of respiratory diseases activity compared to the previous week; (3) Intensity of acute respiratory diseases in the population; and (4) Impact on health care services. See also WHO Global Health Observatory |
| Providing Global Health Indicators for Policy Makers | USA Smoke and Tobacco Use |
| The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) | Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center based at the University of Washington. IHME aspires to make available to the world high-quality information on population health, its determinants, and the performance of health systems. It aims to achieve this directly, by catalyzing the work of others, and by training researchers as well as policymakers. We spoke to Peter Speyer, Director of Data Development, to find out more about how IHME is using data presentation tools to explain global health trends and highlight areas for intervention. He explains that IHME mostly uses existing data to develop estimates for health indicators that can be used by policymakers and those involved in the delivery of health services across the world to evaluate the effectiveness of health care systems. “We use a range of indicators and estimates that we believe will help policymakers to make better decisions,” he says. Read the full story >> |
The CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has just added InstantAtlas interactive maps to its *STATE system - an electronic data warehouse containing up-to-date and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control. The data presentation uses data for adult and youth current cigarette use, cigarette excise tax rates, preemption and smokefree indoor air legislation for all US states across multiple years. Users can access the data with interactive maps, trend lines, bar charts, and data tables. * The STATE System was developed by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in the Office on Smoking and Health (OSH), National Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. See CDC STATE ReportsSee also Florida Dept of Health youth tobacco survey reports |
