The Deadliest Animal in the World. What would you say is the most dangerous animal on Earth? Sharks? Snakes? Humans? Of course the answer depends on how you define dangerous. When it comes to killing humans, no other animal even comes close. What makes mosquitoes so dangerous? There are more than 2,500 species of mosquito, and mosquitoes are found in every region of the world except Antarctica. Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. That’s why we’re having Mosquito Week on the Gates Notes. Everything I’m posting this week is dedicated to this deadly creature. I hope you’ll have a look around. Suivi de la grippe.
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Blood Pressure: Know Your Numbers - Blog About Infographics and Data Visualization. Being knowledgeable about your health is always helpful. Your blood pressure is no exception, 1/3 people who have strokes die because of high blood pressure. The Blood Pressure infographic created by westfieldhealth.com describes what blood pressure is, what it means, and then how to maintain a healthy blood pressure. The infographic was found on behance.net. High blood pressure puts strain on your heart and increases your likelihood of developing health problems in the future. It is one of the most common causes of heart attacks and strokes, and is also a risk factor for heart disease, kidney disease and dementia.
One in three people in the UK have high blood pressure even though just a few simple steps can help combat it. This is a really good design with great information for people. In Blood pressure High Spots, I don’t understand what the size of each symbol on the UK map represents. Thanks to Luke for sending in the link! How long will we live — and how well? Health & Disease Maps. Lives on the Line. Great expectations | nicolasrapp.com. The causes of cancer you can control. Can cancer be prevented? Decades of research have shown that a person’s chances of getting cancer depends on a mishmash of their genes and their environment, but also certain aspects of their lives, many of which they can control.
Today saw the publication of a landmark Cancer Research UK-funded review by Professor Max Parkin, outlining the latest evidence behind the preventable causes of UK cancers. As our press release says, these latest calculations, based on predicted cases for 2010, show that smoking, diet, alcohol and obesity are behind more than 100,000 cancers. This is equivalent to one third of all cancers diagnosed in the UK each year. And this figure further increases to around 134,000 when taking into account all 14 lifestyle and environmental risk factors analysed in this study. There’s more in-depth information about the statistics on our website, and our healthy living pages explain the take-home messages from the research. Download a hi-res PDF of this graphic Bah humbug? High-effort graphics. Jon Quinton made a chart for Cancer Research UK, which is quite an eyeful.
The full infographic is here. Below is a close-up of the key of this chart: Where would this chart fall in my "return on effort matrix"? It is an extremely high-effort chart; I got tired trying to figure out what all those dimensions mean. Is it a high-reward or a low-reward chart? It depends on why you're reading the chart. For most readers, I suspect it's low-reward. In my view, the best charts are high-reward, low-effort. In some special cases, high-effort charts may have high reward justifying the destruction of some brain cells. Low-effort, low-reward charts are harmless. More on the return-on-effort matrix here. One simple improvement to a chart like this one is to produce separate charts for men and women.
Healthy magination | GE Data Vis. More Death (1900-201) Visual Field. Is The HPV Vaccine Safe? Remember a couple years ago when there was a big kick-off about the safety of the HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Vaccine? The virus causes 99.7% of all cases of cervical cancer – the second deadliest for women, after breast cancer. But some concern sprang up around the safety of the jab.
This was inflamed by the fact that it’s most effective when given to girls aged 12-13. Stories of girls fainting and other health scares snowballed the concern into full-on fear. Tabloids branded the jab “as deadly as the cancer”. We did a graphic at the time to show the chances of a nasty or fatal outcome were miniscule (you had more chance being struck by lightning). This week we noticed, via Dr Jen Gunter’s site, that detailed new data has appeared on the vaccine and its safety. Inevitably, I’ve graphickised® the essence for easy injection into your mind. As ever, all our data, sources and calculations: There’s that data link if you want to check our sources: Visible Human Project. Comparison of Background Radiation. Obesity data visualisation :: National Obesity Observatory. Local Authority Adult Excess Weight Prevalence Data New data are now available for prevalence of excess weight (overweight including obesity, BMI ≥25kg/m2) in adults (age 16 and over) at local authority level.
These data are an indicator in the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) Health Improvement domain. We have also produced a set of supporting indicators for adult underweight, healthy weight, overweight, and obesity prevalence. View the excess weight data in the PHOF online toolDownload the data in an Excel spreadsheet NCMP Local Authority Child Data Profile Data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) 2006/07 to 2012/13 are now available in a new online data tool.
Prevalence of underweight, healthy weight, overweight, and obesity for children in Reception (age 4-5 years) and Year 6 (age 10-11 years) can be examined at local authority level. Click here to view NCMP Local Authority Profile Data tables: Electoral Ward and MSOA NCMP child obesity prevalence. Staggering excess. Business Insider calls this stacked bar chart "staggering" (link). Maybe they are referring to its complexity. Is there a reason to include all the fine details? The details serve little purpose other than to shout at readers that there is a lot of data behind this chart. It is impossible to compare the different drugs on the individual harmful effects based on reading this chart. All we can see is the comparison of total harm. (By the way, I can't explain why anabolic steriods rated 10 would be sandwiched between khat and ectasy both rated 9.) It turns out there is an easy way to fix this chart. Instead of taking data from the right side of this tree, we can take data from the aggregated levels.
It's amazing how much more we learn from this chart even though it has less data than the previous one. Similarly, we can plot a chart at the level of physical, psychological, social, etc., and it would still be much more readable than the "staggering" one. PS. How Drunk Can You Get At Your Office X-Mas Party? It’s office-party season, which means, time to get your dranky-drank on!! But wait! You don’t want to get so sloshed you end up doinking your secretary and accidentally running a lawnmower over someone’s foot. This stuff happens! Okay, maybe just on TV. Still. It’d be a damned shame to get fired for ladling yourself one too many cups of egg nog.
So here’s a handy guide that lays out how much you’re allowed to drink depending on where you fall in your office’s pecking order. Note what’s going on here: If you’re relatively low in the org chart, the idea is that you shouldn’t be drinking too much because that’ll draw disapproval from most everyone. Skilled labor--i.e., your IT department--can tip it back a little more aggressively since they have so few people to report to. Note also the helpful distinction between standards for cool companies (startups, design studios, Fast Company) and uncool companies (law firms, insurance agencies, banks, banks, banks).
[Via New York] Healthcare visualisation maps disease prevalence across America | News. Regional differences in healthcare have been mapped time and again during the recent rise of online data-visualisation, but this effort, from the folks at AdAge, presents a new approach. The infographic shows which disease is most prevalent within the population of each US county, and also highlights the socioeconomic status of each region, as defined by the Patchwork Nation project. If you would like to browse a larger, interactive version of the map, you can find the original here. The visualisation was produced by plotting data from 25,000 US household survey responses against Patchwork Nation's 'community types', showing both the geographical and and socioeconomic distribution of different diseases.
Clear regional patterns are immediately visible, such as the prominence of muscular degeneration across the south-west and the emergence of Restless Legs Syndrome as the dominant affliction in the north-east. For more information on its methodology, click here. • Who made this graphic? NEW! Active People :: National Obesity Observatory. The Active People Survey is a large telephone survey of sport and active recreation, commissioned by Sport England. The survey measures participation in sport and active recreation, and provides details of how participation varies from place to place and between different groups in the population. The survey also measures other sport-related issues such as volunteering; club membership; tuition or coaching; and overall satisfaction with levels of sporting provision in the local community. The survey began in October 2005, and is repeated annually.
The survey provides the measurement for former National Indicator 8 (NI8) - adult participation in sport and active recreation. These are new APS data from APS6 Quarter 2 to APS7 Quarter 1, January 2012 - January 2013. Please note that it is not possible to compare this new APS data with previous APS data due to differences in methodology. The data are shown at LA, County Sports Partnership (CSP) and Regional level. Back to Data Sources. Bad Health Habits Are on the Rise [Interactive] Health CyberMap. Visual.ly health data vis challenge. Visual.ly, a startup that provides data scientists and designers tools to bring spreadsheets to life as inforgraphics, has partnered with Tableau Software to issue an open call for submissions to their new Health Data Visualization Challenge. Teams can use any data available at healthdata.gov to create infographics in any format conceivable and the best entries will be featured on the Visual.ly blog, and I will feature them here on iMedicalApps as well.
First place gets a Tableau Desktop license from Tableau Software. They also get a full conference pass ($1945 value) to the upcoming Strata Conference + Hadoop World happening in New York, Oct 23-25. In addition, Visual.ly is throwing in $500 to help ease the travel expenses.Second place gets an ebook reader of their choice (up to $200 value).Third place gets a signed copy of I Love Charts: The Book by Jason Oberholtzer, as well as a copy of Show Me How by Derek Fagerstrom and Lauren Smith, and Listomania curated by Mariah Bear. The Judges. Top 20 Medical Records Software. A new infographic design from InfoNewt for Capterra. Top 20 Most Popular EMR (Electronic Medical Records) Software Solutions shows the results of comparing Capterra’s Popularity calculations in the EMR software category. As the deadline for implementation in the U.S. draws near, talk of electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic health records (EHR) software is a hot topic at the doctor’s office lately.
These systems assist medical practitioners in the creation, storage, and organization of electronic medical records, including patient charts, electronic prescriptions, lab orders, and evaluations (just to name a few common features). While the terms “EMR” and “EHR” are often used interchangeably, EMR solutions allow for patient information to be shared within one health care organization, whereas EHR solutions allow for health-related records to be shared across multiple organizations. Thanks to the team at Capterra for being great to work with! Tap Water: What are you really drinking? Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Sport England - Small area estimates of participation. Seasonal Flu - Reports on FluVax. Skip directly to search Skip directly to A to Z list Skip directly to site content CDC Home CDC 24/7: Saving Lives. Protecting People. Saving Money Through Prevention. <div class="noscript"> Note: Javascript is disabled or is not supported by your browser.
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Gov 2.0 Infographic: Bringing the Tobacco Control Act to Life. In 2011, Enspektos, a health marketing communications innovation consultancy, invited InfoNewt (my company) to be involved in a special project the firm was leading on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). As a new federal agency, the CTP is tasked with regulating tobacco products and preventing tobacco use – especially among youth.
During the project, we collaborated with the CTP to help create The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act: Facts, History and Milestones, an infographic timeline that covers the past and future actions related to the Tobacco Control Act passed in 2009. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) is an important piece of legislation with many requirements. This infographic illustrates the history, rationale and major events associated with the Act. Attend Our Live Webinar! Fard Johnmar, Founder and President of Enspektos agreed to answer some questions about the project.