From rhoskins@home.com Wed Jun 28 05:50:01 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA119586 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 05:50:00 -0700 Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (imail@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA32366 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 05:50:00 -0700 Received: from c501552d ([24.19.225.248]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20000628124959.RWWG5585.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@c501552d> for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 05:49:59 -0700 Message-ID: <006c01bfe0ff$5ef91e10$f8e11318@olmpi1.wa.home.com> From: "Dick Hoskins" To: References: Subject: Re: Lyme Animation: fishing for answers to little questions Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 05:50:00 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Marjorie The Maptitude data for census, Zips and counties has some intercensual population estimates. You might need to do age adjusted rates however, if age is an important risk for Lyme. I think it might be, but that needs some thought. Also GeoLytics has intercensual estimates. (www.geolytics.com ) They have sold their data to a lot of universities, you might be able to get it on your campus somewhere. I came into this late, are there some GIS animations on the net health or otherwise) ? Where? I would like them for my GIS & Health class. Thanks Dick Hoskins rhoskins@home.com GIS uses in public health summer course: http://healthlinks.washington.edu/inpho/gis/course.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marjorie Roswell" To: Cc: "Kenneth Johnson" Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:20 PM Subject: Lyme Animation: fishing for answers to little questions > Hello Public Health Listservers, > > I'm working to develop an animated map of reported lyme disease. > > I have mostly succesfully matched CDC annual county Lyme data > with the County Estimates File at > http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/co_99_8.html > > The following CDC-provided counties did not have a corresponding > value in the annual population estimates file: > > State County CountyFIPS StateFIPS Total OfLymeCount > FL DADE 25 12 11 > PA 0 42 36 > NY BRONX 5 70 204 > NY KINGS 47 70 221 > NY NEW YORK 61 70 779 > NY QUEENS 81 70 345 > NY RICHMOND 85 70 109 > > I suppose I'll just use 1990 population data to calculate annual rates > (1991 - 1998), unless anyone has a better idea for how to find these > population estimates. > > I'm a bit fuzzy on NY geography, actually. Any insights on that would be > welcome, and on why CDC reports NY separately, on how I can get annual > population estimates, and on what is the meaning of life(!). > > I'm not sure what that "PA" is doing in that list. Of course it had no > county, so it couldn't match. I guess I'll just take the 36 cases of lyme > and pretend they don't exist, for the purposes of a county-based > animation. (likewise with all the 3000 cases in counties that are marked > "STATE/COUNTY INVALID") > > While I'm fishing for information: has anyone here done health data > animation? I think I once sent such a query to the list, and got back one > answer. I'm a ways from getting my data into map form, as you can see, but > I'm wondering whether to thematically map based on rates (once I calculate > them), or based on incidence per square mile....how to indicate > non-reporting states, etc. > > I know this email is too long. I'm basically asking: > > - if I can't find annual estimates for these New York counties, can I just > use 1990 data?, and > - what's so special about the 6 counties above (not including "PA") that > they're not in the county estimates file? > - what should I do with state cases that are not assigned a county? > > TIA, > > Margie > > > > > > .