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GIS

Articles - Maps - Presentations - Projects - User Group notes


Articles
pdf file GIS Unit holds 4th Annual GIS Day Open House (11/06)
pdf file Public Health Preparedness and Response UPDATE: Mapping through Disasters (9/06) Article from DHSS’s Center for Emergency Response and Terrorism on using GIS for emergencies.
pdf file DHSS GIS Unit Conducts GPS Training for Local Public Health Agency Staff (7/06)
pdf file DHSS GIS Takes an Active Role in Community Mapping Conference (3/06)
pdf file Local Public Health Agency Staff participate in GPS training (11/05)
pdf file GIS Unit Involved in Effort to Develop Cooperative GIS/GPS Projects for Missouri 4-H (11/05)
pdf file DHSS conducts GIS Emergency Response field exercise for Local Public Health Agencies- Summary of June 2005 field GIS exercise, Sedalia, Missouri.
pdf file Utilizing GIS in Public Health Emergencies - Examples of how GIS is being used at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services for public health emergencies. As printed in ESRI’s HealthyGIS newsletter, Summer 2004.

 

Maps

Description
pdf file Medical Facilities

Location of medical facilities throughout Missouri, Color - Letter size.
pdf file Reporting Regions

Health reporting regions for Missouri, B/W - letter size.

pdf file Senior Services Regions

Senior Services Regions for Missouri, Color - letter size.

Office location map

Map to Central office in Jefferson City, Missouri.

pdf file Counties of Missouri

Counties of Missouri, B/W - letter size.

 

Presentations

Description
pdf file GIS Response Team assists with Tornado Destruction Inventory GIS staff were called to Caruthersville to assist the Environmental Public Health team perform an inventory of public health hazards following a tornado. By Debbie Briedwell, GIS Specialist.

Data, Decimals, Numbers and Text

Presentation of best practices for preparing data for use in ArcView. Presented by Tracy Schloss, GIS Specialist.
pdf file GIS and Disease Surveillance

Examples of how the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is using GIS in the disease surveillance programs. Presented by Joseph Weidinger, GIS Analyst, at the Mid-America Geographic Information Systems Consortium, Kansas City, Missouri, April 2004.

pdf file GIS in Local Public Health

Details about the Local Bioterrorism GIS program at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Presented by Debbie Briedwell, GIS Specialist at the ESRI International Health GIS User conference, Washington D.C., October 2005.
GIS in Public Health Decision Making: A Relative Pocket of Need (RPoN) Methodology (.ppt) A new methodology for finding pockets of need. Presented by Robert Schneider, Research Analyst at the Mid-America Geographic Information Systems Consortium, Kansas City, Missouri, April 2004.
Using Tailings as Ag. Lime in St. Francois County, Missouri: A First Look (.ppt) Explores the use of GIS to look at mine tailings in farming and elevated blood lead levels in children. Presented by Jeff Patridge, GIS Analyst at "Making the Linkages Through Environmental Indicators Workshop", Kansas City, Missouri, May 2004.

 

Projects
Operation Blue Ribbon GIS Emergency Response field exercise for Local Public Health Agencies conducted by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, June 2005, Sedalia, Missouri.
pdf file Exercise Summary Detailed slideshow of Operation Blue Ribbon.

GIS_exercise_info.zip

Working files for Operation Blue Ribbon.  Includes overview, handouts, team tasks and controller notes.

GIS_exercise_data.zip

Data used for Operation Blue Ribbon.

 

User Group Notes

Description

3/04: Geocoding

What is geocoding and how does it work? What are the options for geocoding at DHSS?

10/03: Advanced Labeling

Beyond the basics of labeling. advanced symbology, prioritizing labels, and moving labels.
7/03: GIS User projects This presentation contains examples of recent projects in progress within the Department which featured GIS technology as part of the solution.