Linking Your Health to Your Environment
How does your environment impact your personal health?
At TEDMED 2009, Bill Davenhall shared his search for the missing piece to his own personal health story. Discover why he believes physicians should ask about the geographic information contained within our own place histories in addition to the standard questions regarding genetics and lifestyle. Then, compare your health to where you live by creating your own report.
What environmental exposures do you personally experience?
Would any of this geographically rich information be useful at your next physician visit?
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Bill Davenhall
Global Marketing Manager, Health and Human Services Solutions, Esri
Hear about my personal health "train wreck" and the underlying environmental factors in my place history that may have contributed to it.
Explore Your Place History
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Related Research
- Urban Sprawl and Public Health—Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
Howard Frumpkin, Lawrence Frank, Richard Jackson - Geographies of Health: An Introduction
Anthony C. Gatrell - Neighborhoods and Health
Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa F. Berkman, Editors - Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water
- Pesticide Exposure Raises Risk of Parkinson's
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Grant Study - GIS for Health and Human Services
More information about how health and human services organizations worldwide are using geographic information system (GIS) technology - Relating Geography and Health Care:
An Interview with Esri's Bill Davenhall
DISCLAIMER: This site does not store any personally identifying information and does not provide any form of medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This application does not suggest a causal link between any of the datasets presented. The intention is only to present some of the data about geography as it relates to human health.
