The British Columbia Atlas of Wellness
http://www.geog.uvic.ca/wellness/
The BC Atlas of Wellness “springs from the ActNow BC initiative, which was introduced in early 2005 to encourage British Columbians to make healthy lifestyle choices to improve their quality of life, reduce the incidence of preventable chronic disease, and reduce the burden on the health care system.”
The atlas, which was created in partnership with the University of Victoria Geography Department, uses the ActNow BC initiative as a framework to present its findings. It consists of more than 270 maps and supporting tables that provide data related to approximately 120 wellness-related indicators for B.C. communities, where positive and negative indicators are offset against each other to give an overall wellness score.
See related story in the Vancouver Sun
‘Wellness’ atlas looks into what makes a healthy life in B.C.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
[...] Ted at GANIS blog introduces this very interesting data visualization initiative – The British Columbia Atlas of Wellness. [...]
June 4th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Interesting this, although really we shoul not be suprised as being healthy has always been of importance thru the ages
February 25th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.