Mapping Health Statistics at CDC.gov

Ajay Ohri on CDC.gov interactive tool for analyzing US stats on death and injury. For example, white people are more likely than black people to own guns, but are seemingly less likely to be injured by firearms.

DecisionStats.com, Ajay Ohri, January 18, 2011

CDC.gov has a great tool for showing United States statistics on death and injury, drillable by various details.

wisqars.cdc.gov:8080/cdcMapFramework/

As a test I decided to map out injuries due to fire arms , and compare firearm deaths of white people versus the whole population.(see firearm deaths file)

See white people are more likely than black people to own guns (also read www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9572612 ), but it seems statistically they are less likely to be injured by firearms- so it could affect support for gun control laws on a racial ground- that was my null hypothesis. No politics, just plain statistics. I dont know- why dont you look at the data and decide

Here is full post by Ajay Ohri

decisionstats.com/2011/01/18/mapping-health-statistics-at-cdc-gov/