New Mexico Health Facilities GIS Mock-up Page

This page illustrates how tabular data, static maps (snapshots stored as image files), and dynamic (interactive) GIS maps can be presented as part of a single web page intended to provide access to New Mexico health facility information. The first table below is intended to provide general public access to data that describes facility locations. The second table is intended to provide more sophisticated researchers with information about the approximate service areas for these facilities. These service areas were generated using basic spatial analysis techniques that illustrate how GIS (Geographic Information System) tools can help turn descriptive locational data into more useful information. Please note that hospital service areas based on the HIDD (Hospital Inpatient Discharge Database) will also be included in the future.

A third table of this web page provides access to advanced query and analysis facilities. The basic locational information for health care facilities is combined and integrated with other population and demographic data, again using more advanced GIS and spatial analysis techniques. Various static and interactive GIS maps are used to portray the locational relationships between population characteristics and health care facilities. The advanced spatial analysis techniques such as the "gravity model" provide more useful information for evaluating geographic access to health care facilities in New Mexico.

These data are collected as part of the Geographic Access Data System (GADS) that is managed by the NM Health Policy Commission (HPC). This page has been prepared by the Division of Government Research (DGR), UNM as an example of what a finished product hosted on HPC's server may look like.

      Tables are presented in both HTML and Microsoft Excel file formats. Tables provide access to the raw data upon which the maps are based.

      Static maps are prepared using ESRI's ArcView 3.1 and ArcMap (a major component of ESRI's ArcGIS) software. These static maps provide simple, quick, and easy access to important aspects of the GADS. Maps are stored in either JPG or PDF format.

   The dynamic map applications are prepared with ESRI's ArcIMS software. They are more difficult to use, but provide increased accessibility to the GADS including query and display functions not available with static maps. Maps are viewable using either Netscape () or Internet Explorer () web browsers, but they generally display best when using Internet Explorer. This is not an endorsement of Internet Explorer; ArcIMS technology was designed to work best with IE.


Hospital and Clinic Locations
  Tabular Data Static Maps Interactive Maps
  View HTML Table Download Excel File View JPG Image View PDF Image View ArcIMS Project
Type of Information Non-Indian Indian Non-Indian Indian Non-Indian Indian Non-Indian Indian Non-Indian Indian
Hospitals
Clinics
Hospitals and Clinics with Primary Care Capabilities No Table No Table No Map
Specialty Hospitals No Table No Table No Map No Map No Map
Hospitals and Clinics with Emergency Care Capabilities
Long-Term Care Facilities No Table No Table No Map No Map No Map


Hospital and Clinic Service Areas

  Static Maps Interactive Maps
  View JPG Image View PDF Image View ArcIMS Project
Type of Information Non-Indian Indian Non-Indian Indian Indian and Non-Indian
Hospitals            
Clinics            
Hospitals and Clinics with Primary Care Capabilities            
Dental Clinics            
Prenatal Clinics            
Urgent Care Clinics            
Hospitals and Clinics with Emergency Care Capabilities            
Long-Term Care Facilities    No Map    No Map


Advanced Query and Analysis Facilities
A custom buffer (search radius) tool. This allows a user to specify a health care facility and see demographic data of surrounding ZIP codes within a specified distance.
Gravity model results for health care facilities. The gravity model is a technique that can help delineate potential accessibility to health care facilities. Currently only preliminary results are included as it has been several years since this technique has been applied.


Other GADS Test and Mock-up Pages


   Recent Gravity Model Power Point Presentation.

   More examples of New Mexico health care data in ArcIMS format are available at the New Mexico Health Data Mapping Project. This site developed by UNM's Family and Community Medicine Department uses data provided by HPC plus data from other state agencies and UNM departments. It clearly shows how ArcIMS can be used effectively to make health care data more accessible. This site also contains a very good map instructions page that explains how to use the ArcIMS map viewer.

   Recent census and demographic data are available from the Census Aggregation and Accessibility Project (CAAP) prepared by UNM's Institute for Applied Research Services. This page demonstrates various formats that users can view, query, obtain, and more easily use this recent Census 2000 information. Users can download data and initial GIS projects (Arcview and ArcGIS) that can be used for subsequnt GIS analysis projects such as those typically performad by health care researchers.

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Last Revised: 7/31/2002 Larry Spear