GIS library services: GIS and Health Sciences

CANADA

• Canada's Nutrition and Health Atlas - Here you'll find maps and tables that make it easy to access information about the health and nutrition of Canadians. You can either view maps for each indicator or view the data for each province. [ARCHIVED - Last updated in 2013]
• Health Region Boundary Files - Digital boundary files reflecting health region limits in effect as of 2015. Available from Statistics Canada in ArcInfo or MapInfo formats.
• Public Health Agency of Canada - Chronic Disease Infobase: online mapping of chronic disease across Canada. Currently not accessible.
• Statistics Canada Health Related Data tables and Maps - maps include health regions, and thematic maps alphabetically (includes topics such as obesity, asthma, mortality etc)

SASKATCHEWAN

• Health Region Boundary File for Saskatchewan- 2006 Census 
• Health Facilities in Saskatchewan - available in shp file format or kmz (for Google Earth).

 INTERNATIONAL

• ArcGIS Online - Interactive online mapping - search for or create maps related to health.
• Food Environment Atlas (USDA) -  Spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food, and its success in doing so. Can download Excel data.
• HealthMap - Global disease Alert Map, based on news, reports, WHO and World Org. for Animal Health
• National Atlas.gov (US) -  Users can create maps based on various layers including Health and Environment
• TOXMAP - Environmental Health e-maps From the US National Library of Medicine. Explores on site toxic releases and hazardous waste sites from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory and the Superfund National Priorities List.
• World Health Organization - Public Health Mapping and GIS , includes the HealthMapper and Global Health Atlas

SPHERU (Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit) GIS as a tool for population health research, past, present and future: the SPHERU experience.

Geographic Information Systems can display complex information in an easy, understandable way. Mapping health information can show spread of disease, disparities in health care across areas and much more.

You do not have to be an expert in GIS to make maps to enhance projects and presentations. This guide will give you quick links to health related GIS data, and interactive maps.