Melanie Dixson & Niki Kirkpatrick
CDC Vital Signs
Portals
- Partners in Information Access for the Public Health WorkforceA collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries which provides timely, convenient access to selected public health resources on the Internet.
Affordable Care Act
- HHS.gov/HealthCareHow the ACA is impacting people in each state.
Project Tycho
Project Tycho is an extraordinary example of public health information being made more widely and effectively available. "Currently, the Project Tycho™ database includes data from all weekly notifiable disease reports for the United States dating back to 1888. These data are freely available to anybody interested.
Associations & Organizations
- World Health OrganizationGlobal public health authority
- Guide to Community Preventive ServicesThe Task Force on Community Preventive Services is a non-Federal Task force supported by the Centers for Disease Control. CDC scientists review the effectiveness of health care interventions for the Task Force that then makes recommendations to the public health community and health care delivery organizations. The recommendations are combined to form the Guide to Community Preventive Services. (CDC)
Government
- Centers for Disease ControlProvides direct access to important health and safety topics, scientific articles, data and statistics, tools and resources
- Department of Health and Human ServicesU.S. Government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.
- Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj)HSRProj provides access to ongoing grants and contracts in health services research. Maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
- HealthyPeople.govHealthy People 2020
- National Institutes of HealthAs Federal focal point for biomedical research in the U.S. the NIH is a valuable source of health information for such topics as AIDS; cancer; diseases of the heart, lung,and blood; diabetes; and neurological disorders such as stroke and epilepsy.