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• Features

• What Is a GIS?
• What Types of Data Can be Used in a GIS?
• How Does a GIS Work?
  
• ATSDR Plays Leadership Role in Use of GIS in Public Health
• GIS at ATSDR: 2000 and Beyond
• GIS Products and Services Available to ATSDR and Health Departments in Participating States
• Spatial Analysis Activity Group
  
• ATSDR's New Map Server, GATHER, Provides Internet Access to GIS Data and Products
  
• ATSDR Uses GIS and Demographics to Characterize Communities at Risk
• GIS and U.S. Census Data
• Table 1. Census Statistical Areas
• Demographic Data and Segmentation Systems
• Community Research
• Creating Community Profiles
  
• The ABCs of GIS
• "A" Is for Address-Matching
• "B" Is for Buffering
• "C" Is for Cartography
  
• GIS Enhances ATSDR Health Assessment Activities at Kelly Air Force Base
  
• Assessing Neighborhood Characteristics of Brownfields and Other Distressed Communities
 
• Calendar of Events
• | November |
• American Evaluation Association Annual Conference
• American Public Health Association Conference
• GIS Day 2000
• Health Management Summit 2000 

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ATSDR Administration

Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, Administrator
Henry Falk, MD, MPH, Assistant Administrator
Gregory M. Christenson, PhD, Director (Acting), Division of Health Education and Promotion

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Staff Writers: Nancy A. Whitehead, Tom Wilson
Web Site Coordinator: Wilma López

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