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New reports of interest from NAP

Food Literacy: How Do Communications and Marketing Impact Consumer Knowledge, Skills, and Behavior? Workshop Summary
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/21897/food-literacy-how-do-communications-and-marketing-impact-consumer-knowledge

Applying an Implementation Science Approach to Genomic Medicine: Workshop Summary
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/23403/applying-an-implementation-science-approach-to-genomic-medicine-workshop-summary

Establishing an African Association for Health Professions Education and Research:
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/23485/establishing-an-african-association-for-health-professions-education-and-research

The Promises and Perils of Digital Strategies in Achieving Health Equity:
Workshop Summary
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/23439/the-promises-and-perils-of-digital-strategies-in-achieving-health-equity

Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/23442/ending-discrimination-against-people-with-mental-and-substance-use-disorders

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Florence Nightingale: Health Metrics Pioneer

Diagram of the causes of mortality of the army in the east

Nightingale's Coxcomb


Science News recently ran an article on the health statistics work and data visualization work of Florence Nightingale.  It’s fun for me to learn about this history, since I am such a recent immigrant to the land of health metrics. Nice quotes from Nightingale’s statistical mentor in the piece, too:

You complain that your report would be dry.  The dryer the better. Statistics should be the dryest of all reading.

The graphics in the Science News article are from an educational project of the Statistics Lab at the University of Cambridge called Understanding Uncertainty. It seems like Nightingale’s coxcomb it is a well debated form of infoviz over at the Edward Tufte Discussion Board.

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