Our Space: A Neighborhood Database Project
How does a person's local environment influence their health? Diseases can be clustered spatially, as can the environmental and socio-economic factors that can influence some chronic diseases. With colleagues from UCSF and Kaiser Permanente we have begun a collaborative initiative to establish a comprehensive contextual database for use by Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, UCSF, and UCB investigators. We will compile identified environmental, geographical, socio-economic, administrative, and contextual data in order to permit sophisticated spatial and multilevel analysis of neighborhood-level effects on health behaviors and outcomes. The UCSF Center for Health & Community will oversee this effort, led by Dr. Barbara Laraia, and I will carry out the creation of the contextual database.
Collaborators
Related Information
- California Environmental Health Tracking Program (CEHTP)
A collaborative initiative of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control (DEODC) of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA), and the University of California. They work to develop advanced GIS datasets and models to identify populations most vulnerable to environmental hazards, such as pesticides and air pollution.
- Network for a Healthy California - GIS Map Viewer
An interactive, internet-based Geographic Information System (GIS) that allows users to view and query mapped nutrition data.
- UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge
Developed Neighborhood Knowledge California ( http://nkca.ucla.edu/ ), a webGIS application that enables users to upload and save their own data
Ellen Kersten is working on this project.