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| American Public Health Association (APHA)
Provides information on the APHA including programs, meetings, legislative issues, publications, up-to-date public health news, and links to state and world public health associations.
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| Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
National organization representing deans, faculty, and students of schools of public health in the United States. Site contains links to information on employment and training, grants and contracts, publications and research and more. subject(s): Public Health - General.
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| CDC: National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Federal government's principal vital and health statistics agency provides data on vital events and information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care.
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| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Federal government's principal agency for public health disease surveillance and control. Site contains information on Health and Safety topics, such as diseases and conditions, emergency preparedness, and travelers' health. Also links to CDC publications, health data and statistics.
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| Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).
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| Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Comprehensive government portal to information on disease, wellness, drug and safety information. Provides links to information on children & families, aging and other special populations, federal policies & regulations, federal grants & funding. |
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| Grey Literature Report
"Quarterly publication of The New York Academy of Medicine Library alerting readers to new grey literature publications in public health". subject(s): Health Policy & Economics. Public Health - General.
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| Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Directs national health programs by assuring quality health care to underserved and special-needs groups. Links to key program areas including HIV/AIDS Services, Primary Care, and Maternal/Child Health. Links to news, data and statistics, HIPAA info, publications, and grant and budget information. subject(s): Public Health - General. Statistics.
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| Healthy People 2010
National health promotion and disease prevention initiative to improve the health of Americans, eliminate disparities in health, and improve years and quality of life. Information on agenda, progress, and toolkit.
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| Martindale's Virtual Public Health Center
World daily reports, travel recommendations, multilingual public health dictionaries, conference information, cases, courses, databases and more. subject(s): Public Health - General.
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| National Health Information Center (NHIC)
Health information referral service. Health Resource Information Database provides contact information, short abstracts, and information about publications and services organizations provide. subject(s): Public Health - General.
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| NLM: Toxicology and Environmental Health
"A comprehensive toxicology and environmental health web site that includes access to resources produced by the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) and by other government agencies and organizations. This web site includes links to databases, bibliographies, tutorials, and other scientific and consumer-oriented resources." subject(s): Environmental & Occupational Health. Public Health - General.
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| Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)
Agency provides leadership in stimulating, coordinating, and unifying national disease prevention and health promotion strategies among Federal, State, and local agencies and major private and voluntary organizations. subject(s): Prevention & Community Health. Public Health - General.
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| Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS)
Provides coordination, leadership and advice on national public health and science issues. Links to public health program offices and related resources. subject(s): Public Health - General.
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| Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
Links to public health websites in areas of health promotion & health education, literature guides, health data tools & statistics, grants & funding, education & training, and more. Sponsored by coalition including the American Public Health Association and the National Library of Medicine. subject(s): Health Education & Health Promotion. Public Health - General.
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| Public Health Information and Data: A Training Manual
"Supports instruction provided to members of the public health workforce on issues related to information access and management." Training manual for those responsible for developing training events. subject(s): Public Health - General.
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| PubMed (MEDLINE)
Search NLM's PubMed interface for MEDLINE which contains references and abstracts from 4300 biomedical journals and covers 1966 through the present. Free access. |
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| TOXNET
Cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas, including HSDB, IRIS, ITER, GENE-TOX, CCRIS, Multidatbases, TOXLINE, DART/ETIC, TRI, ChemIDPlus. Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, through the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program of its Specialized Information Services Division. |
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| Trust for America's Health
A national non-profit organization whose mission is to protect the health and safety of all communities from current and emerging health threats by strengthening the fundamentals of our public health defenses. Lots of epidemiologic data on chronic disease by state. subject(s): Epidemiology & Biostatistics. Public Health - General.
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| World Health Organization (WHO)
Promotes technical cooperation for health among nations, carries out programs to control and eradicate disease, and strives to improve the quality of human life.
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