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>> Welcome.
My name is Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director of the National Center
for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB prevention
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I am pleased to introduce you to the NCHHSTP Atlas,
our latest innovation to provide you an online visualization
of CDC's surveillance data.
Now using the Atlas allows you to identify areas
of the United States that bear the greatest disease burden
and to view epidemiologic data
across our disease areas including HIV/AIDS,
other sexually transmitted diseases including chlamydia,
gonorrhea, primary and secondary syphilis,
as well as viral hepatitis and tuberculosis.
This tool can help public health professionals confront syndemics
or overlapping epidemics in more efficient and impactful ways
by providing the information needed
to better tailor resources and interventions to meet the need
in those areas hardest hit.
The NCHHSTP Atlas also helps users examine disease trends
over time, identify disparities by race/ethnicity,
gender and age and recognize opportunities
for program collaboration and service integration.
Now to ensure you are able
to fully utilize this exciting new tool,
we have provided a tutorial to walk you
through the application, how it works
and some of its key features.
I hope you will take time to explore the Atlas and use it
in your prevention efforts.
Thank you for your work and your commitment
to disease prevention and health promotion.
Enjoy the tour.
>> Welcome to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention's National Center for HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis,
STD and TB prevention online Atlas.
The Atlas was created to provide an interactive tool for finding
and using data collected by NCHHSTP on HIV, AIDS,
viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases or STDs
and tuberculosis or TB.
This exciting new tool is interactive
and provides a new way to learn about and explore these data.
It gives you the ability to create detailed reports,
maps and other graphics on trends over time and patterns
across the United States or in your own community.
Let's take a look at the Atlas and walk
through some of its key features.
When you open the Atlas the default query is displayed.
These highlighted data will change frequently based upon
more recent data available in various awareness days
or other events to be highlighted.
Atlas also gives you the power
to create your own custom analysis.
The query menu contains elements from which you can choose
to customize your data request.
Start here beginning with disease and year.
If you select change over time you can use the play trend
data function.
Next you can select a variety of demographic variables
such as race, ethnicity, sex, age group
and transmission category.
The variables you are able to select
for the different diseases will depend upon the data
that are available.
Next to all the drop down buttons is an I icon.
By clicking on this icon you can access information
on the drop down options.
Once you make your selections,
click the update map button once.
Your expected data and graphics will be displayed.
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Recommended queries are provided to assist you.
NCHHSTP scientific staff drafted these to highlight some
of the most important data.
Once you select one of the recommended queries,
clicking on show query description provides info
on why this query is recommended as well as links
to additional data and information.
In the Map Option section you can access a variety of choices
to customize your view of the map data.
You can select color ramps, number of classes
to group the data in and the classification scheme.
You can also use Display Options to change your view to map only,
table only or map and table, which is the default setting.
As you explore your query, more of the interactive capabilities
of the application will appear.
The map, table and legend are all interactive.
The table can be sorted by any of the columns.
The default order is
by the federal information processing standards code,
or FIPS code.
As you explore the Atlas, keep in mind
that the tool includes data for HIV, AIDS, some STDs,
viral hepatitis and TB.
You can easily toggle between rates and cases.
In this application rates always refers
to rate per 100,000 among the selected population.
You can also view additional data and graphics
for the diseases by selecting variables
in the national data section.
Default is year.
If you toggle the cases, the pie chart will display.
By double clicking on a state, both state
and national data will be shown for comparison.
Your query remains constant but you can compare differences
between the selected area and the national data.
The I icon in national data provides important information
about the data displayed.
Be sure to read it.
In the Export/Share section you can export the data
as an Excel file or a PDF file.
Finally, be sure to read the about these data and footnotes
as well as the frequently asked questions.
The footnotes can help you understand the
surveillance data.
The frequently asked questions contain additional information
about the application.
In the page footer there is a contact Atlas link
through which you can ask additional questions
or give feedback.
We will continue to adapt Atlas with new functions and more data
over time so please continue to explore
and use this data resource and send us your comments
on how we may improve by emailing nchhstpatlas@cdc.gov.