{"id":96390,"date":"2007-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2007\/05\/22\/health-data-geeks-wisdom\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:17:56","slug":"health-data-geeks-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/2007\/05\/22\/health-data-geeks-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Data Geeks\u2019 Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was lucky enough to be invited to a &#8220;Data Users Conference&#8221; sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/hints.cancer.gov\/\">Health Information National Trends Survey<\/a>\/National Cancer Institute, which really should have been called Health Data Geeks Unite! If you have a moment, I highly recommend browsing through some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/hints.cancer.gov\/presentations.jsp\">presentations<\/a>, particularly the following:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>David Stinchcomb showed how isopleth maps can be used to smooth regional data into a lovely &#8220;weather map&#8221; connecting low belief in the risk of smoking with the reality of high lung cancer mortality rates. (If you like that kind of data mapping, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialexplorer.com\/pub\/home\/home.aspx\">Social Explorer<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/polisci.msu.edu\/people\/miller.htm\">Jon Miller<\/a> argued for the need for &#8220;biological literacy&#8221; since the 20th century was the &#8220;age of physics&#8221; and the 21st century will be the &#8220;age of biology.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Michael Link reminded us to watch out for the effect of cellphone-only households on classic phone survey results.\u00a0A snail mail survey found that 52% of cell-only respondents had been recently tested for HIV vs. 35% of landline respondents, for example. 40% of cell-only respondents are binge drinkers vs. 23% of landliners. (This was news to me since my colleagues in the political end of the Pew Research Center had found that cell-only respondents were <a href=\"http:\/\/poq.oxfordjournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/70\/1\/88\">politically akin<\/a> to landliners. Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/\">this space<\/a> for updates for the 2008 election cycle!)<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org\/docroot\/RES\/content\/RES_9_1_BRC_Researchers.asp?sitearea=RES\">Tenbroeck Smith<\/a> said that the American Cancer Society call center handles about 1 million calls per year, while cancer.org handles about 20 million visitors.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/Presentations\/2007\/Future-of-Health-Communication.aspx\">My presentation<\/a> focused on how e-patients are using the latest participatory media (Flickr, MySpace, YouTube, etc.) to document, advocate, educate, and illuminate their own health journeys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer &#8220;weather maps,&#8221; the age of biology, and how cell-only adults really are different from landline 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