Igor M. Ramos-Herrera*, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico Miguel E. Gonzalez-Castañeda, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico Juan de Dios Robles-Pastrana, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico Joel Fonseca-Leon, Mexican Institute of Social Assurance, Guadalajara, Mexico Track: Practice Presentation Topic: Health information on the web: Supply and Demand Presentation Type: Poster presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Last modified: 2014-05-30

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The Health Atlas of Jalisco is a project created at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, which started on 2011 and has been sponsored by the State’s Council of Science and Technology, also we signed an agreement with the Health Ministry of Jalisco so we can work with their data and we set it for their service. This web-based service's aim is to show a collection of thematic maps that represent the main health indicators of the Province of Jalisco based on 2010 to 2012 public data and oriented to evaluate if the Millennium Goals set by the World Health Organization were accomplished there. The Atlas is currently available at www.geografiasalud.org and it uses InstantAtlas software with which the user can interact to generate a series of thematic maps about the main health indicators for the Province. The atlas is also intended to help the Health Ministry to provide information requested every month by hundreds of users from the same or other ministries, health journalists, and the general public that use the transparency law roads to ask the health ministry; besides it can be used by anyone interested through its web interface. This work reports the first results of this project, and the advances in the technique that we have adapted from the empiric experience of teachers and professionals of geography. We created a set of geographic maps (shapes) which we combined with the health information provided by the Health Ministry of Jalisco from data collected in 2010 and 2012. We processed the data and the maps with the mentioned software and made it available through the web site we setup for the user to generate and get the maps. Users can obtain maps and information at the state, health jurisdiction and county level. By now we have put there more than one hundred health, economic, education, and infrastructure indicators, the plan is that when we finish the Atlas there will be more than two hundred indicators. The results of this project will also help the Health Ministry of Jalisco in taking decisions and setting some of its actions for the next six years. By far we have learned that it is very difficult to use all the information we planned because there are some governmental and information confidentiality issues that we need to attend. We will work on this areas this year.