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	Map Title: How Much Hospital Charge for the Same Procedures Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: The New York Times created a map from data released by the federal Department of Health and Human Services showing what hospitals charge Medicare for the same procedures.
	Map Title: Illicit Drug Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by State: Percentages, Annual Averages Interactive: No Printable: Yes Description: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration produced a series of maps showing illicit drug use broken down by time period, age, and type of drug.
	Map Title: U.S. Health Rankings by State, 2012 Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: The National Conference of State Legislatures has produced a map showing the type of law concerning the duty of mental health professionals to inform law enforcement about a patient that potentially might cause harm to someone.
	Map Title: U.S. Health Rankings by State, 2012 Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: The United Health Foundation has produced a map showing a state's overall health ranking. You can also filter results for one aspect, compare one state to another, and compare to previous years. (Connecticut ranks 6th overall for 2012.)
	Map Title: HIV Infection Rates Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: The map lets you filter for race, age, and sex as well as showing an identical map but showing a "social determinant of health" including poverty rate, high school graduation rate, median household income, percentage of people without health insurance, and income disparity.
	Map Title: County-Level Map for Leisure-Time Physical Inactivity, Obesity, and Diagnosed Diabetes, 2008 Interactive: No Printable: Yes Description: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) correlates which counties fall into the highest and lowest quartiles for rates of obesity, leisure-time physical inactivity, and diabetes (most of Connecticut falls into lowest quartile, which is good).
	Map Title: Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: This map tool from the CDC lets you look at heart disease and stroke rates at the state and county level as well as factors that contribute as well as economic and other demographics.
	Map Title: State Cancer Profiles Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: This map tool allows uses to filter for a variety of demographics, look at any state by county, by any type of cancer, and either incidence or mortality.
	Map Title: Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas Interactive: No Printable: Yes Description: This map, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, shows which areas in the country have a short of primary care health professionals.
	Map Title: Connecticut Acute Care Hospitals and Medical Centers Interactive: No Printable: Yes Description: This map shows the location of all 20 acute care hospitals and medical centers in the state.
	Map Title: Cancer Incidence Rates in Connecticut by County Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: Users can look at county-level incidence rates for a variety of cancers.
	Map Title: Community Health Centers in Connecticut Interactive: No Printable: Yes Description: Learn the locations of the community health centers across the state.
	Map Title: Lyme Disease Incidence by Town in Connecticut, 2008 Interactive: No Printable: Yes Description: The most year this map was produced.
	Map Title: Radon Exposure in Connecticut by County Interactive: No Printable: Yes Description: Data from the EPA and USGS was used to show the radon exposure levels.
	Map Title: Flu Activity Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: The CDC tracks seasonal and H1N1 strains.

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