Andrew Bazemore, Mark Carrozza, Shiloh Turner, Xingyou Zhang, Bob Phillips
Despite the power of geographic information systems (GIS) to interact and display data relating to health, broad adoption of the technology in this sector remains unrealized. To overcome the financial, technical, and temporal hurdles to using GIS in education and advocacy, four partners developed HealthLandscape. This interactive, web-based GIS platform allows health professionals, policy makers, academic researchers and planners to combine, analyze and display information in ways that promote understanding and improvement of health and healthcare. A collaborative effort of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies, the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, and the University of Cincinnati, this site has three components: 1) Community Health View, 2) the Primary Care Atlas, and 3) the Health Center Mapping Tool. We describe the development and applications of this innovative platform, and how HealthLandscape helps its users to understand health and health needs in their community, evaluate programs, and influence policy.
Presented at the 27th Annual ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, CA
