Project 1: Report 3

This is an updated map with the hospital names highlighted. I know its too late. But I wanted to post it. Thank You to all who helped me with doing this the way I wanted to.

Now that we have homed in on Alameda County, further analysis is required. We must look at the percentage of black households for Alameda County. I have focus on the North West Corner of Alameda County due to the high percents of black household. With the analysis of contamination sites of Alameda County, most of them were in the North West region. This was also a reason for my concentration on the area. I have buffered the pollutant sites to 150 meters for dispersion. I have alsao buffered the major roads of the area to the same distance of 150 meters. As we home in, we can see that there are four hospitals in this zone of High Black Concentration, high pollutant site concentration which will produce the ozone and particulate matter that we have shown to be correlated with high asthma hospitalization rates. I decided that the analysis of Eauclidean distance from the hospitals made the map a little confusing so I decided not to use it. In conclusion, I have shown that there are four hospitals which to allocate monies for dealing with high asthma hospitalization rates first. They include Children's Hospital, Highlands General Hospital, Alameda Hospital, and Booth Memorial Hospital. I tried to label these four hospitals but ran out of time. I was planning on using Adobe Illustrator to do this, that is the only reason they are not labeled. I tried to do this in Arcmap and could not find any style that stood out enough for me to consider using it.
I would like to add that if I had the time I would have presented this to the Board at the next meeting as a powerpoint of all my maps not just one. I beleive that all the data was relevant in order to narrow down the search for the four most critical needs hospitals of the San Francisco Bay Area.