Epi Map 2000 Tom Arner Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Epi Map 2000

Tom ArnerCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Introduction to Epi Map 2000 An integrated component of Epi Info

2000, a Database and Statistics Suite of Programs for Epidemiologists and Public Health Professionals

Produced by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Programmed with MS Visual Basic, 6.0, around ESRI’s MapObjects 2.0a

Uses ESRI’s Shapefiles (.SHP) Free!

Basic Idea behind Epi Map 2000 Epi Map 2000 is a simple, easy-to-

use GIS program Understanding of public health

data begins in Analysis program in Epi Info 2000

Public health variables are related to shapefiles and displayed geographically in Epi Map 2000

Epi Info 2000 Menu

Analysis

Public Health Data

Map Dialog in Analysis

Results of Map Command in Analysis Displayed in Epi Map 2000

The Map Manager

Properties

Equal Interval

Epi Map 2000 as Stand-alone Component

The Map Manager

Adding Map Layers

Adding Points

Open Epi Info 2000 Database (MS Access .MDB)

Select Table Containing Water Pump Locations

Select X/Y Fields and Properties

Open Epi Info 2000 Database (MS Access .MDB)

Select Table Containing Cholera Death Locations

Select X/Y Fields and Properties

John Snow’s Map of Cholera Epidemic in Soho, 1854

How to Get Epi Info/Epi Map 2000

http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/