This map shows the relationship between having asthma and the admittance to emergency center due to asthma. The color of the region from white to blue represents the frequency of residents who have been told by a doctor, nurse or other health professional that they had asthma. The color of the border line from white to black represents the number of times the residents have been admitted to emergency center because of asthma.
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Asthma and Smoking in Queens
This is a map of Queens. The darker the green means that more people have asthma in tat area. Yellow dots indicate frequency of smoking. The more yellow dots, the more people smoke in that area. There does not seem to be a good correlation between the frequency of smoking and asthma. After making a scattergram, it was clear that there was little correlation between smoking and the frequency of asthma in queens. Seems that frequency of asthma might have to do with something else. Other research might need to be done to figure out cause of asthma.
Cigars and Asthma – not as related as you would expect!
With all the studies out there linking smoking and various diseases like asthma, this graph caught me off-guard. I expected there to be a high correlation between two variables like cases of asthma and cigar smoking, but I found that the two, while indeed seemingly correlated, were dwarfed by the variable of borough. In Manhattan, for instance, while there is a much greater population and thus more cases of asthma, there is still a higher quantity of asthma cases per unit of population. Staten Island, on the other hand, has a very high rate of cigar smoking, but much lower cases of asthma. In two boroughs of Queens, bordering Brooklyn, one even clearly see a neighborhood where many people quit smoking have more cases of asthma than one where many people smoke. I found much of this data very interesting and worth looking into further to discover the truth behind asthma and smoking.
Asthma and Smoking in Lower Manhattan
This map shows the incidence of Asthma reports and Smoking in Lower Manhattan neighborhoods. The incidence of asthma reports happens to positively correlate with the amount of smoking reported in those specific neighborhoods. However, there appears to be a wide variance between neighborhoods in regards to these rates. The Chelsea area appears to have the smallest incidence of both types of information. This can possibly be attributed to Chelsea’s young and liberal population, which is more likely to avoid smoking cigarettes. The lower rate of asthma can also be possibly attributed to the residential focus of these neighborhoods, responsible for a reduced amount of freight traffic, in contrast to that found in more industrial and commercial areas.
Chinatown’s Environmental and Health Issues are Intertwined
After learning about Chinatown’s air pollution problem due to congested traffic, idling buses, and the lingering effect of September 11th, I wanted to see if asthma statistics would support this. The air pollution causes health problems, but health insurance is a major problem for the residents. The map shows how asthma is a prevalent issue in lower Manhattan, especially in the area near Chinatown, and at the same time it shows that many people in the last 12 months were unable to receive health care because of its cost. This is a good way of seeing how Chinatown’s environmental and health problems are interrelated.
Sexual Behaviors in the Bronx
Asthma in Manhattan
This map illustrates the amount of people with asthma and the amount of people that have been to the emergency room due to asthma-related reasons. In particular, I want to focus on West Harlem. The map depicts the West Harlem with a fill color ranging from light green to bright yellow, this concludes that there is a medium to high population of people that have been told the have asthma by doctors and other health professionals. Furthermore, the outline in upper West Harlem is brown, which indicates that there is a high population of people that have been in the emergency room because of asthma. These data are important because it shows the high level of asthma that is present in the West Harlem community, and from my previous research, these asthma cases could be due to the bus depots and the smoke from the North River Wastewater Treating Plant.
Obesity and High Blood Pressure in East Harlem
One of the most pressing health-related issues in East Harlem is the lack of access to fresh food for its residents. Grocery stores with fresh produce and other healthy options are less common in this neighborhood–and therefore, lead to increased consumption of fast food and other less healthy choices. The map above depicts the recorded instances of obesity in Manhattan and surrounding areas of New York City; higher levels of obesity often correspond with greater occurrences of high blood pressure. This correlation can be found especially in areas such as East Harlem–and definitely seems to be a topic that, when expanded upon, can offer much more insight into the neighborhood and its other health-related issues.
Condom-Use and HIV-tests in Manhattan
Smokers in Queens
On this map I chose to compare the amount of people who smoked 100 cigarettes or more in their lifetime with the amount of people who have actively tried to quit smoking. As the color goes from turquoise to more yellow you can see the intensity of the amount of people who have smoked 100 cigarettes in their lifetime. The areas that are density yellow show an extremely high smoking population. The dots all over the map represent the people who have tried to quit smoking. It is interesting to note that in certain areas that have very low concentrations of heavy smokers, a high percentage of the people have tried to quit smoking all together. However, it is apparent from looking at the map that many people throughout Queens have tried to quit smoking regardless of the density of smokers in a specific area.
