[Oregon_EPHT_News] Map of Oregonians' weight from DMV records now online

[CHETOCK Tara A]

Friends and Partners of Oregon Tracking,

I'm very pleased to announce the release of this map of Oregonians' weight, produced by the Oregon Tracking Program from data on drivers' licenses and identification cards. Data were provided by the Driver & Motor Vehicle Services Division of the Oregon Department of Transportation (DMV).

With over 3 million records to analyze, DMV data allow us to map weight status at a very fine scale. Although people do underreport their weight to the DMV, the bias is consistent so the patterns are still meaningful.

Never before have statewide data on weight status been displayed in such detail. I hope you will enjoy exploring this map. A low resolution version is attached and a high resolution version is available for download at healthoregon.org/epht<http://public.health.oregon.gov/HealthyEnvironments/TrackingAssessment/EnvironmentalPublicHealthTracking/Pages/index.aspx>.  Thank you for sharing this link!

Daniel
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Daniel S. Morris, MS, PhD          Epidemiologist        971-673-1210
Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division
800 NE Oregon St. / Suite 640 / Portland, OR 97232
epht.oregon.gov  --  facebook.com/OregonEPHT -- healthoregon.org/epht

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/oregon_epht_news/attachments/20130426/298aebca/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: DMV_BMI_map.JPG
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 193841 bytes
Desc: DMV_BMI_map.JPG
URL: <https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/oregon_epht_news/attachments/20130426/298aebca/attachment.jpe>