Public Health

Public Health: Community Health Profiles for England

Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO), UK

"Health Profiles provide a snapshot of health for each local council in England using key health indicators, which enables comparison locally, regionally and over time. We leveraged the power of Instant Atlas Server to display this complex data in an intuitive visual interface which would be equally useable by analysts, public health professionals and the public alike. Geowise could not have been more professional or cooperative in helping us achieve our vision on time and on budget."

Gary Bates, Senior Applications Developer, South West Public Health Observatory

Public Health: Epidemiology

Ministry of Health, Chile

InstantAtlas has enabled the Chilean Ministry of Health to position itself as one of the most innovative in the use of GIS serving public health. Using this software, the Department of Epidemiology presents the situation of different diseases in a manner enabling both epidemiologists and others to access information in a timely effective graphical way.

Monica Chiu, MPH, Department of Epidemiology, Department of Health, Chile

Public Health: Child and Maternity Health Observatory (ChiMat)

Yorkshire & Humberside Public Health Observatory (YHPHO)

InstantAtlas Server provided the ChiMat team with an adaptable solution for managing and presenting quantitative data that was inexpensive and quick to implement. We were able to purchase the software and go live within three months. It was easy for our web designer to brand the InstantAtlas Server mini-site to match the ChiMat site. The highly interactive atlases delivered through the Data Views module are more engaging than static images. They allow users to explore our data and provide answers leaving our team to focus on more complex queries. The needs assessment modules we have produced through the Profile Reports module will make individuals within PCTs more productive by reducing the time it takes to produce needs assessments with local data.

Kate Canning, Head of ChiMat/Senior Health Intelligence Specialist, Child and Maternal Health Observatory (ChiMat)

Public Health: Community Indicators Victoria

CIV has developed an online Geographic Information System (GIS) which is an interactive mapping and analysis tool to enable visual communication of wellbeing indicators.

The Wellbeing Map uses Instant Atlas to present wellbeing information in a geographical context, revealing spatial variations and patterns across Victoria.

Public Health: Diabetes InfoBank

Diabetes UK

"The powerful visuals in InstantAtlas enable us to communicate the issues clearly with all our audiences. We can analyse local service provision versus targets and easily graph these to make our lobbying assertive and more effective. People with diabetes can also quickly see how their locality is performing."

Charlotte Gosden, Information Analyst, Healthcare and Policy Team, Diabetes UK

Public Health: Key Indicators Graphical System (KIGS)

Dr. Foster Intelligence

"InstantAtlas from GeoWise was the ideal solution being cost-effective and easy to implement without requiring any web or database programming skills. We have had great feedback from users on how it brings the data to life."

Public Health: Teenage Pregnancies

East Midlands Public Health Observatory (EMPHO)

EMPHO has produced interactive maps of under 18 conception data, for all Local Authorities in England, using InstantAtlas from Geowise. Maps are now available with the latest 2006 (provisional) data, along with comparators including deprivation and edata. The interactive mapping tool has also been improved, allowing the user to view the data in a number of different ways, including Significance mapping, Funnel Plots and Area Profiles.

Public Health: European Union Public Health Information System (EUPHIX), EU

EUPHIX is a web-based knowledge system for health professionals, policy makers and others. It presents structured European public health information, giving a special insight into similarities and differences between EU Member States.

Public Health: Cancer Atlas

The Institute for Cancer Epidemiology, Lübeck

The Institute for Cancer Epidemiology in Lübeck is the first German Cancer Registry to implement InstantAtas. This reports incidence and mortality rates for major cancer sites over a five-year period for Schleswig-Holstein.

Public Health: Regional health statistics,

National Public Health Institute, Finland

“We are using InstantAtlas for presenting regional health statistics in Finland. Our goal is to provide a balanced overview of the population's health, which is useful for health policy planners and decision makers in the districts and municipalities.

Our pilot site 'Terveytemme' (literally 'Our Health') presents the first set of health indicators. While the number of indicators in the InstantAtlas report is still quite limited, it has already received positive feedback from several directions.”

Timo Koskela, D.Sc. , Dept. of Health and Functional Capacity, National Public Health Institute, Finland

Public Health: Health Reporting -

Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

The new internet presentation of state health reporting which was launched on September 15, 2008 is a dynamic product. Its contents will be continually extended and updated and the structure modified where appropriate.

Public Health: Leeds JSNA

Leeds PCT and Leeds City Council

Leeds PCT have produced Atlases to support the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment in partnership with Leeds City Council. The Atlases have facilitated data sharing with partners and made the data available to council members and the general public.

Mr. Richard Dixon, GIS Officer

Public Health: North Rhine-Westphalia : Core Health Indicators by District

NRW Institute of Health and Work, Germany

"InstantAtlas is an excellent tool for presenting county-level data in a very concise way with options for interactive analysis. The County Profile contains the key indicators needed to quickly assess the overall health situation in each county. InstantAtlas enables the user to see indicator values for individual counties as well as make county-to-county comparisons and to the state averages. Using InstantAtlas for the presentation of health information will significantly simplify and enhance the use of our indicators."

Dr. Wolfgang Hellmeier, Head of Health Indicators Unit, LIGA

Public Health: Germany: Core Health Indicators by State -

NRW Institute of Health and Work, Germany

Public Health: Germany: Core Health Indicators by State -

NRW Institute of Health and Work, Germany

Public Health: PHI Online

Ministry of Health, New Zealand

"Our PHIOnline site uses InstantAtlas to make large volumes of statistics much more accessible. Interactive graphics help decision makers interpret issues and trends. The clear visuals stimulate interest, investigation and support confident action to improve public health. User feedback has been excellent."

Dr. Barry Borman, Manager (Epidemiologist) Public Health Intelligence, Ministry of Health, New Zealand

Public Health: Compendium of Clinical & Health Indicators (Interactive Atlases)

NCHOD National Centre for Health Outcomes Development

The National Centre for Health Outcomes Development (NCHOD) is a unique national resource in the UK concerned with all aspects of health outcomes assessment.

Funded by the Information Centre for health and social care, NCHOD produces the online Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base, including the Compendium of Clinical and Health Indicators. This is an extensive resource used predominantly by local authorities and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to help them direct public health resources effectively in their regions, to save lives.

Director of NCHOD, Dr Azim Lakhani is in no doubt that the Compendium combined with InstantAtlas makes a difference to UK health and to saving lives. He said: "Aided by InstantAtlas, what we are now able to do on a much wider scale and much more clearly, is show people where there might be a problem. This allows them to target resources effectively.”

Public Health: The Cancer e-Atlas

National Cancer Intelligence Network, UK

"InstantAtlas provides an ideal tool for presenting cancer statistics in an engaging and informative way. It is inexpensive and familiar to the analysts working on the Cancer e-Atlas which reduces the risk and cost for the project compared to a bespoke development."

Dr Colin Pollock, Cancer e-Atlas project director

Public Health: Injury Health Atlas

New Hampshire DHHS

"Instant Atlas is a cost-effective, flexible, and user-friendly web tool that provides professional looking maps, data tables, and graphs of aggregated data. Bar charts with confidence intervals, scatter plots, and trend charts nicely supplement colorful map displays. Data exploration is easy and fast. Instant Atlas reduces the workload of custom data requests while improving customer satisfaction."

David L. Reichel, Statistician Health Statistics and Data Management, State of New Hampshire

Public Health: National Obesity Observatory

Supporting Public Health (SPH), UK

The National Obesity Observatory e-Atlas is an interactive mapping tool for the analysis of data on the prevalence of obesity and its determinants for local authorities in England.

Caroline Ridler, Senior Public Health Intelligence Analyst explains why NOO chose InstantAtlas: “The National Obesity Observatory needs software that is easy to use. The fact that we can use an InstantAtlas template out-of-the box saves us time and helps us to display a lot of complex data in a simple and accessible format”.

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Caroline Rider, Senior Public Health Intelligence Analyst

Public Health: Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington D.C.

A new system offers access to a variety of interactive "dashboards" offering health data to aid in the policy-making process. The dynamic, interrelated, interactive dashboards provide tables, maps, and charts showing data in various dimensions. They are intended as a complementary alternative to the information most commonly used in the form of statistical tables, maps, and charts.

Public Health: Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington D.C.

As part of the Pan American Health Organization’s commitment to monitoring the H1N1 Pandemic, this report showcases the ability of InstantAtlas to present categoric (non-numeric) data. The evolution of the pandemic is now tracked using qualitative measures of virus spread, trend, intensity and its impact on health services.

Public Health: Planning South Australia

Ageing Atlas

The Ageing Atlas was developed around themes designed to provide information about the spatial distribution and housing consumption patterns of South Australia’s elderly population:

Actual population (2001 & 2006)

Public Health: Public Health Atlas

Public Health Information Development Unit, University of Adelaide, Australia

"InstantAtlas met the need for a simple, user-friendly interface to our data.

The features that enable users to view details for their local area make this an excellent, well-designed and low cost vehicle to deliver population health data for Australia."

John Glover, Director, Public Health Information Development Unit

Public Health: Nationale Atlas Volksgezondheid – National Public Health Atlas of the Netherlands

RIVM

This atlas presents a geographical picture of the state of health and health care in the Netherlands. The report displays the levels of obesity throughout the provinces.

Public Health: Interactive Health Atla

South Eastern Region Public Health Observatory (SEPHO)

"I have demonstrated the software to a number of senior public health specialists and received a great deal of positive feedback - complex data previously once displayed in tedious two dimensional spreadsheets and charts is now transformed in an exciting and more meaningful manner"

Steven Mo rgan, Senior Public Health Information Specialist, SEPHO

Public Health: Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) Tool

South West Public Health Observatory (SWPHO)

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) tool aims to help primary care trusts and local authorities jointly identify their areas of need. The Area Profile Template was chosen as there are a large number of indicators to be shown, and trend data is not widely available. In addition, the ability to compare neighbouring areas and select statistically similar areas using the filter option are very useful. Since its launch the JSNA tool has become one of the most viewed pages on the South West Public Health Observatory (SWPHO) website.

Public Health: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Virginia Department of Health, USA

Public Health: WHO A/H1N1 Influenza Map - Global Map

World Health Organization

Presenting the latest statisics on the spread of the H1N1 virus. Directives are now being issued by international, national and local health agencies to plan for a significantly larger second wave of Influenza H1N1 anticipated as flu season commences in the Northern Hemisphere in Fall 2009.

Public Health: Investing for Heatlh Project

West Midlands Regional Observatory (WMRO)

The Investing for Health project also examines the relationship between excess winter deaths and fuel poverty. We helped to share this information by presenting data on excess winter deaths and the fuel poverty indicator through interactive maps. You can use the maps to view the data geographically.

Naomi Winchurch, Researcher WMRO

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