Public Health Resources
The National Library of Medicine has partnered with many of the national leading agencies in the healthcare information field to tackle the often difficult and costly task public health officials and agencies in this country face when trying to access current and reliable health and demographic information. To this end, Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, the collaboration of these US government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries, have begun to narrow this divide in order to help “the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public’s health”.
As an area health sciences library serving members of this public health workforce, we have assembled some valuable internet resources that we present here with annotations.
http://phpartners.org/ : The collaborative efforts of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), American Public Health Association (APHA), Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Medical Library Association (MLA), National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Public Health Foundation (PHF) and Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). The site has a very useful search function as well as break out main topic links, including “Literature and Guidelines”, “Health Data Tools and Statistics”, “Grants and Funding” and “Education and Training” among other things.
Online Resources:
- Health Promotion and Education Resources
- Nutrition Resources
- Recall Resources
- Evidence Based Public Health Internet Resources
- A Selected List of Health Statistics and Data Sources
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Many thanks go to the South Central Region of the NNLM and their ‘Public Health Information on the Web’ course for much of this listing.