Monday March 17, 2003
Public Health
Public Health refers to the art and science of dealing with the protection and improvement
of the general health through organized community effort, including preventive medicine and
sanitary and social science.
Healthy People 2010
- The U.S. government's prevention agenda for the nation. Identifies the most significant preventable threats to health, and sets national goals to reduce those threats
- Includes statistics, publications, and guidance for becoming a healthier person
http://www.healthypeople.gov/About/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Presented by the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of
people at home and abroad
- Offers information on environmental health, disease prevention, travel health risks,
accident prevention, and more
http://www.cdc.gov/aboutcdc.htm
American Public Health Association
- Provides an overview of the field of public health, focusing on nutrition,
health promotion, and disease prevention
- Tracks legislation on the topic of public health
http://www.apha.org/
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
- Sponsored by the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community
Medicine
- Aims to help front-line public health practitioners find information, learning
resources, and online tools in support of their work
- Provides access to continuing education, associations, and other resources
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/nwcphp/
World Health News
- A news digest from the Center for Health Communications of the Harvard School
of Public Health
- Reports on critical public health issues from around the world
http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/
Biosites: Public Health
- Offered by the University of California
- An extensive listing of quality Web sites related to public health
http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/biosites/bin/showByTopic.pl?PublicHealth
The WWW Virtual Library: Public Health
- Topical Web sites compiled and maintained by volunteers
- International in scope and provides descriptions of the links
http://www.ldb.org/vl/
Announcements:
NAHEC is proud to announce their new database driven Continuing Education website.
Please take a look at
http://www.nahec-wi.org/CE/training.cfm.
Continuing Education information can be added to this database by anyone. Contact
NAHEC for the username and password to add your CE courses.
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