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Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health

What is our responsibility to the well-being of others around the planet? This is one of the many pressing questions asked by this uniformly fine digital exhibit and interactive collection created by staff members at the National Library of Medicine. First-time visitors will want to click on over to the exhibit proper for starters. Here they will find the "Health for All" exhibit which takes users...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/againsttheodds/index_27.h...
Case Studies in Primary Health Care

How does one learn about primary health care? Some might attend public health schools while others will find different ways to explore this fascinating field on their own. One particularly nice resource on the subject is this course from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Offered as part of the Open Course Ware initiative, the course was first developed in the fall of 2011 and was...

https://www.jhsph.edu/courses/course/13527/2010/221.635.81/c...
FDA: Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

The mission of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) is "to protect and enhance the public health through the regulation of biological and related products including blood, vaccines, allergenics, tissues, and cellular and gene therapies." Their mission is an important one, and consumers and scientists will want to bookmark this page and return...

https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/center-biologics-evaluation-an...
Google makes a new foray into the world of public health

Google tool uses search terms to detect flu outbreaks http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/11/11/google.flu.trends/?iref=mpstoryview Google Search Trends Reveal Flu Outbreaks http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96914887 Google Flu Trends http://www.google.org/flutrends/ CDC Influenza Flu [pdf] http://www.cdc.gov/flu/ Flu Center: Mayo...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2008/1114
JAMA Patient Page

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has been committed to providing the general public with a number of high-quality print and online resources in recent years, and their collection of Patient Pages is quite thorough and most welcome. With over 390 entries, each Patient Page contains a basic overview of such topics as Lyme disease, dementia, lymphoma, and dozens of other...

https://jamanetwork.com/
Medscape: Public Health and Prevention

WebMD's Medscape and the American Public Health Association (APHA) present the new Public Health and Prevention Medscape website -- "a cutting-edge resource for a variety of health professionals, offering timely information about important public health issues of the day and tools for improved practice." Users will find the latest health-related news from Reuters Health and Medscape Medical News,...

https://www.medscape.com/publichealth
Minority Health Archive

Created in collaboration with the Center for Minority Health and the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, the Minority Health Archive is an online archive of print and electronic media related to the health of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. The archive contains over six hundred documents, including editorials, newspaper articles, research papers, fact...

https://health-equity.lib.umd.edu/
National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention

Suicide is a serious and preventable public health problem. The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention works to provide public health professionals, concerned individuals, and organizations with resources about suicide prevention. The Alliance was established in 2010 with a goal of saving 20,000 lives by 2015. It has a distinguished leadership group which includes the secretary of the...

https://theactionalliance.org
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: Health Professionals

Health care professionals and educators will be delighted to learn about this site, provided that they haven't heard about it already. Created by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, this site brings together a number of interactive tools and online resources that will be of great use to those in these fields. The site includes such materials as asthma mortality maps of the United States,...

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/resources
NC Health Info

The North Carolina Health Info website is helpful with connecting the people of North Carolina to the health services they need, in their local area. The tab "Local Services" has the "Go Local" feature that provides websites of local healthcare providers, services and programs. NC Health Info was the "first resource of its kind to link local health services with corresponding information from...

https://www.nchealthinfo.org/
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