title: The ElderSmile TimeMap: Benefits of Connecting Statistics With Time and Place.
abstract: Community-based programs are critical for locally targeted public health education and accessible service delivery. Deriving useful information from such programs is important for their own evaluation and improvement and may facilitate research collaboration with partners and experts. Here we present an interactive Web-based application designed for a community-based oral health outreach program called ElderSmile to demonstrate how data can be summarized, filtered, compared, and visualized by time and place to inform program planning, evaluation, and research. The ElderSmile TimeMap ( http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/∼smetcalf/resources/timemap.html ) is an emergent product of a US National Institutes of Health-funded collaboration of knowledge sharing among multidisciplinary team members at the University at Buffalo, Columbia University, and New York University.
authors.affiliation: At the time of this writing, Susan S. Kum (PhD candidate), Peng Wang, Zhu Jin, and Sara S. Metcalf were with the Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Hua Wang was with the Department of Communication, University at Buffalo. Leydis De La Cruz, Carol Kunzel, and Stephen E. Marshall were with the Section of Population Oral Health, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY. Mary E. Northridge was with the Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York.
authors.forename: Susan S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kum
authors.affiliation: At the time of this writing, Susan S. Kum (PhD candidate), Peng Wang, Zhu Jin, and Sara S. Metcalf were with the Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Hua Wang was with the Department of Communication, University at Buffalo. Leydis De La Cruz, Carol Kunzel, and Stephen E. Marshall were with the Section of Population Oral Health, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY. Mary E. Northridge was with the Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: At the time of this writing, Susan S. Kum (PhD candidate), Peng Wang, Zhu Jin, and Sara S. Metcalf were with the Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Hua Wang was with the Department of Communication, University at Buffalo. Leydis De La Cruz, Carol Kunzel, and Stephen E. Marshall were with the Section of Population Oral Health, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY. Mary E. Northridge was with the Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: At the time of this writing, Susan S. Kum (PhD candidate), Peng Wang, Zhu Jin, and Sara S. Metcalf were with the Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Hua Wang was with the Department of Communication, University at Buffalo. Leydis De La Cruz, Carol Kunzel, and Stephen E. Marshall were with the Section of Population Oral Health, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY. Mary E. Northridge was with the Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York.
authors.forename: Zhu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: At the time of this writing, Susan S. Kum (PhD candidate), Peng Wang, Zhu Jin, and Sara S. Metcalf were with the Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Hua Wang was with the Department of Communication, University at Buffalo. Leydis De La Cruz, Carol Kunzel, and Stephen E. Marshall were with the Section of Population Oral Health, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY. Mary E. Northridge was with the Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York.
authors.forename: Leydis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: De La Cruz
authors.affiliation: At the time of this writing, Susan S. Kum (PhD candidate), Peng Wang, Zhu Jin, and Sara S. Metcalf were with the Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Hua Wang was with the Department of Communication, University at Buffalo. Leydis De La Cruz, Carol Kunzel, and Stephen E. Marshall were with the Section of Population Oral Health, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY. Mary E. Northridge was with the Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York.
authors.forename: Mary E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Northridge
authors.affiliation: At the time of this writing, Susan S. Kum (PhD candidate), Peng Wang, Zhu Jin, and Sara S. Metcalf were with the Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Hua Wang was with the Department of Communication, University at Buffalo. Leydis De La Cruz, Carol Kunzel, and Stephen E. Marshall were with the Section of Population Oral Health, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY. Mary E. Northridge was with the Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York.
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kunzel
authors.affiliation: At the time of this writing, Susan S. Kum (PhD candidate), Peng Wang, Zhu Jin, and Sara S. Metcalf were with the Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Hua Wang was with the Department of Communication, University at Buffalo. Leydis De La Cruz, Carol Kunzel, and Stephen E. Marshall were with the Section of Population Oral Health, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY. Mary E. Northridge was with the Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York.
authors.forename: Stephen E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.affiliation: At the time of this writing, Susan S. Kum (PhD candidate), Peng Wang, Zhu Jin, and Sara S. Metcalf were with the Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Hua Wang was with the Department of Communication, University at Buffalo. Leydis De La Cruz, Carol Kunzel, and Stephen E. Marshall were with the Section of Population Oral Health, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY. Mary E. Northridge was with the Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York.
authors.forename: Sara S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Metcalf
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009909:Oral Health; D010348:Patient Care Team; D016730:Program Development; D062211:Spatio-Temporal Analysis; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities