Volume 11 — October 23, 2014
GIS SNAPSHOTS
Geographic Disparities in Declining Rates of Heart Disease Mortality in the Southern United States, 1973–2010
This map shows model-based, county-level percentage decline in heart disease death rates from 1973 to 2010 in the Southern United States. Counties are rendered in 6 shades, ranging from dark blue (heart disease death rates increased or decreased very little) to lighter blue (heart disease death rates decreased greatly). The few counties with insufficient data are shaded in white. During this 37-year period, the fastest declines occurred primarily on the East Coast and central and west Texas and the slowest declines were concentrated largely in the counties along the Mississippi River and parts of Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Alabama.
This map shows model-based, county-level percentage decline in heart disease death rates from 1973 to 2010 in the Southern United States. During this 37-year period, the fastest declines (in yellow) occurred primarily on the East Coast and central and west Texas, and the slowest declines (in dark blue) were concentrated largely in the counties along the Mississippi River and parts of Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Alabama, which are also areas characterized by extremely high spatially concentrated poverty rates (6).
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