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Print Resources
Books on Reserve
Author: Muennig, Peter
Year: 2008
Location: General Reserves
Call Number:W74 M948c 2008
Author: Fadiman, Anne
Year: 1998
Location: General Reserves
Call Number:WL 385 F145s 1998
Author: Barnett, Tony
Year: 2006
Location: General Reserves
Call Number:WC 503.4 B261a 2006
Author: Abel-Smith, Brian
Year: 1994
Location: General Reserves
Call Number:WA 530.1 A139i 1994
Author: LeCompte, Margaret D
Year: 1999
Location: General Reserves
Call Number:GN 378 L465a 1999
E-Books
Databases
E-Journals
Recommended Websites
Presented by Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
Established in 2000 with a mission to support and promote optimal oral health.
Learn how often patients treated at a facility have been hospitalized, report certain types of infections or are placed on the transplant list.
A listing of free publications from the US government on drug and alcohol abuse prevention.
Formerly called OneSource, K4Health is a collection of public health resources, including the Popline database.
New York City Coalition Against Hunger Special Report (2006).
"An interactive mapping tool created by Silent Spring Institute that brings together health, environmental, and demographic information."
"Seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live."
PHSJ contains articles, slide shows, syllabi, and other documents relevant to topics in public health and social justice.
"Includes an extensive list of maps on major health topics."
Materials on prevention and control of public health conditions.
From Johns Hopkins University; works with international agencies, foundations, governments, and non-governmental organizations in the US and overseas to promote healthy behavior.
Established by the World Bank, the DCPP provides evidence-based analysis of resources that assess disease control priorities.
From the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology. Provides aggregated data on incidences of various diseases around the world.
Openly accessible information on population health, its determinants, and the performance of health systems.
Nonprofit international health organization promoting care for HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and child health, and reproductive health.
USAID-funded organization offering data from demographic and health surveys in the developing world.
The Performance Improvement (PI) Resource Guide is intended to help state public health systems (SPHS) that have completed the National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP) and seek to use the results to improve their system's performance.
Information and resources on urban health.
"[A] bimonthly publication of The New York Academy of Medicine Library alerting readers to new grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics."
A multidisciplinary European database, covering science, technology, biomedical science, economics, social science and humanities.
Free repository of theses and dissertations from many disciplines.
A collaborative project to provide public health professionals with timely, convenient access to information resources to help them improve the health of the American public.
Registry from the National Library of Medicine, designed to aid in finding information about people in the aftermath of disasters.
Promoting health through social marketing: "PSI is the leading nonprofit social marketing organization in the world."
Partnership for Prevention a disease prevention and health promotion organization Public Health Foundation. Resource includes the Public Health Infrastructure Resource Center (PHIRC).
Addresses informatics from a public health perspective.
From NACCHO, searchable collection of innovative best practices across public health areas.
News, information and articles (many available in free full text) compiled by the UK National Health Service's National Library for Health.
Nonprofit and nonpartisan organization focusing on disease control. Statistics and reports on various health topics.
UNFPA supports programs for poverty reduction, safe pregnancy and birth, HIV/AIDS control, and gender equality.
A news digest from the Center for Health Communication of the Harvard School of Public Health
BU and BMC Resources
BHLP helps doctors and hospitals in treating patients who draw on a variety of cultural traditions and religious worldviews.
High performance computing services for genetic/genomic analysis available for the BU research community.
Consumer Health
Information on communicable diseases in a variety of languages.
Consumer health website presented by the ADA.
Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias
Current country information from the CIA
Government Agencies and Resources
Emergency preparedness and bioterrorism resources.
Provides up to date information on local air quality and potential health effects.
Includes the Health Care Activities and Initiatives of "Border Health," "Community Health Centers," "Migrant and Farmworker Health," and "School-Based Health," among others.
"[A] single point of access to a wide variety of public health reports and data systems, both local and external, categorized here by topic."
US Department of Health and Human Services, provides information on Medicaid and Medicare programs, including statistics. Public data files and HCFA reports are listed.
"Spatial data pertaining to the well-being of Colorado's public health and environment."
Provided by the USDA. Last updated in 2002.
multi-center research program involving a collaboration of clinicians and engineers in academia, industry, and government
E-Source is an online interactive anthology designed scientists with the latest research methods and tools to address emerging issues in Public Health
Gives you quick and easy access to selected statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau through the American Community Survey.
"Get a spacial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so."
Provided by the USDA.
From the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
The Public Health Portal of the European Union
PubMed searches and full-text resources supporting HP2010 objectives
Massachusetts Department of Public Health includes a list of related web sites.
A branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Collaborative projects, databases, subject access projects, outreach and training, and publications pertaining to health services research and public health.
Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 20052008
Health Care Financing Administration is the the federal agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Obesity information by state last updated in 2011 presented by healthyamericans.org.
Health Reports
"The Health Statistics Branch (HSB) provides a variety of data concerning the health of Arkansans."
Health Reports for the City of Boston and individual Boston neighborhoods
Statistics on cancer occurrence and other related factors. From the American Cancer Society.
Reports from the World Bank
Reports from the World Health Organization
Professional Associations
Formerly the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine: dedicated to prevention research and interprofessional education.
Web Search Engines
Search engine for the websites and databases of HumGen International, the PHG Foundation and the the CDC's National Office of Public Health Genomics.
