From Alice_Rarig@health.state.ak.us Thu Jul 13 13:33:06 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA168844 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:33:02 -0700 Received: from as-jnu1e.state.ak.us (as-jnu1e.health.state.ak.us [146.63.177.19]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA13630 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:33:00 -0700 Received: by as-jnu1e.health.state.ak.us with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <36DKFVCG>; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:29:09 -0800 Message-ID: <6FE9CC635BD5D11192EB00A0C9A6F17A02C97DCD@AS-JNU3E> From: "Rarig, Alice" To: "'waphgis@u.washington.edu'" Cc: "'howard.rabinowitz@mail.tju.edu'" Subject: RE: HPSAa and MUAs Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:29:08 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The Bureau of Primary Health Care (bphc.hrsa.gov) database has it all, for HPSAs only. Even for HPSAs some of them are for populations -- although there is a geographic element for reference, too. MUAs and MUPs are another story -- they began two decades ago and thus often refer to geographies we aren't using now -- old county boundaries, '70s and '80s census areas and census tracts (in some cases). BPHC may have a cross-walk but I'm not sure how complete or up to date it is. And the BPHC database reports are not necessarily easy to read into anything although they might be able to do a special run to get the output in the fashion you like. Jerilyn Thornburg is the Director of the Division of Shortage Designation. Go to the website for more info. www.bphc.hrsa.gov -----Original Message----- From: Peter H. Van Demark [mailto:peter@caliper.com] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:18 PM To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Cc: Howard Rabinowitz Subject: HPSAa and MUAs All: Does anyone have or know the whereabouts of either the boundaries of or the census tract-level definitions for the federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) or Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs)? If so, please copy "Howard Rabinowitz" on your response (I am asking for him). Thanks. Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Van Demark Manager of Customer Services Phone: 617-527-4700 Caliper Corporation Fax: 617-527-5113 1172 Beacon Street E-mail: peter@caliper.com Newton MA 02461-9926 Web site: http://www.caliper.com .