Pickle Linda Williams
StatNet Consulting LLC, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA.
Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2009 Oct-Dec;1(1):3-17. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2009.07.004. Epub 2009 Jul 30.
This article presents a brief history of U.S. small area mortality atlases published since 1975, focusing on their content, cartographic style and findings resulting from the maps. The atlas designs are evaluated on the basis of map design recommendations from cartographers and from a series of cognitive experiments on information extraction from rate maps. Despite some design limitations, the atlases adequately described patterns of U.S. mortality data, resulting in important etiologic findings and action to reduce cancer rates and health disparities.
本文介绍了自1975年以来美国发布的小区域死亡率地图集的简史，重点关注其内容、制图风格以及地图所产生的研究结果。根据制图师的地图设计建议以及一系列关于从比率地图中提取信息的认知实验，对地图集的设计进行了评估。尽管存在一些设计局限性，但这些地图集充分描述了美国死亡率数据的模式，从而得出了重要的病因学研究结果，并采取行动降低癌症发病率和健康差距。
