Use of BRFSS Data and GIS Technology for Rapid Public Health Response During Natural Disasters

Having information about preexisting chronic diseases and available public health assets is critical to ensuring an adequate public health response to natural disasters and acts of terrorism. We describe a method to derive this information using a combination of data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and geographic information systems (GIS) technology. Our demonstration focuses on counties in states that are within 100 miles of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean coastlines. To illustrate the flexible nature of planning made possible through the interactive use of a GIS, we use a hypothetical scenario of a hurricane making landfall in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Preventing Chronic Disease

• Publication date

  2008-06-15

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  PMID 18558047PMCID 2483570
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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