This week we provide you with some resources to research the geographic distribution of AIDS and HIV in the US and worldwide. Also, we'll include a brief section with articles on "Latte Cities" to complement the piece on Bobos in Paradise featured in this week’s People section. In the third vignette, we present some resources for researching the "graying of America" and northwest states.
Mapping AIDS/HIV
Online Resources:
AIDS Primer
Go to this page to see a map which visually displays the cumulative AIDS cases in the U.S. from 1983 to 1997. Link to global overview, and other geopolitical areas.
http://treasuresoftheinternet.org/health/aids/update/mdc/mdc.shtml
PBS Map HIV/AIDS in the World
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/atlas/world.html
NCHHSTP State Profiles, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, from the CDC (Center for Disease Control & Prevention)
This site provides detailed information about these diseases, through a US map – click on each state for layers of information.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/stateprofiles/usmap.htm
Latte Cities
Tacoma might yet attain chic downtown, nice neighborhoods,
by Peter Callaghan, Tacoma News Tribune - March 4, 2004
http://www.joelkotkin.com/Commentary/..neighborhoods.htm
Too Much Froth, The latte quotient is a bad strategy for building
middle-class cities. Blueprint Magazine Jan 8, 2004
http://www.dlc.org/print.cfm?contentid=252300
Graying of America
An Aging US Population, 2000 Census map
http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_65plus.html
Global Median Age, 2001, Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Median_age.png#file
US Population Density by County, 2000, US Census Bureau
http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/maps/special/profile2k/US_2K_Profile.pdf
Washington Profile, 2000, Population Density by Census Tract
http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/maps/special/profile2k/WA_2K_Profile.pdf
Montana Profile, 2000, Population Density by Census Tract
http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/maps/special/profile2k/MT_2K_Profile.pdf
Idaho Profile, 2000, Population Density by Census Tract
http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/maps/special/profile2k/ID_2K_Profile.pdf