Public Health Professional Resources

Public Health Agencies
Professional Organizations
Library Resources
Consumer Health
Demographics and Statistics
Internet Tools
Miscellaneous Resources

Public Health Agencies

• Missouri Department of Health Home Page (http://www.dhss.mo.gov/)

  The key source of information for all of the Public Health agencies in Missouri. Contains demographic data on each of the state, county and local public health agencies as well as resources for other types of information. Has a wide variety of available statistics and data. Also contains news releases, legislative issues and birth/death record information.

• FDA Listing of State Health Agencies (www.fda.gov/oca/sthealth.htm)

  This is a listing of links for state health departments on line.

Professional Organizations

• American Public Health Association (www.apha.org)

  This site has the most extensive collection of public health related links including professional organizations, governmental agencies, related public heath topics, health services research and resource locators.

• Public Health Foundation (www.phf.org/index.htm)

  A national, non-profit organization dedicated to achieving healthy communities through research, training, and technical assistance to public health professionals.

• National Public Health Information Coalition (nphic.org)

  Stated purpose is to serve as a channel through which directors of public health information of American states and territories may exchange and share communication methods, techniques and information for the enrichment and improvement of public health programs. Site has on-line newsletter with searchable archives.

• National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (www.naphsis.org)

  The NAPHIS site contains links for several organizations concerned with health statistics and public health information systems.

• AMA On-line Doctor Finder (www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm)

  Find any doctor by name or medical specialty. Also the site for access to AMA Health Insight, reference information on a variety of health topics.

Library Resources

• University of Missouri - Kansas City Health Science Library

  This site contains information about the resources and services available at the academic health science library at UMKC including tutorials on using the library's services and materials, who to call for help, upcoming classes, links to full-text on-line journals, and contact information for library staff. Services include Reference, Document Retrieval, Searching Assistance, and Training.

• Kansas University Medical Center Archie Dykes Library (http://library.kumc.edu)

  This site contains information about the resources and services available at the academic medical library at the KU Med Center.

• National Library of Medicine MEDLINEPlus (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus)

  This site provides searching for health information by topics alphabetized by letter or by category. It is written for the patient. There is also access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's database of references to more than 12 million articles published in 4300 biomedical journals for more extensive searching.

• National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Northwest Region (www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/samplers/pubhlth.html)

  This site offers a wide variety of Public Health links both governmental and non-governmental as well as links to internet training materials.

Consumer Health

• HealthWeb: Public Health (www.healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=80)

  A Website maintained by the Public Library, the School of Public Health and the HealthWeb project at the University of Michigan. The site contains a variety of links to pertinent sites but most valuable is a list of links to on-line journals many with full text available.

• Health Information Center (www.health.gov/nhic)

  A health information referral service that puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers. The database can be searched by alphabetically listed key words, by frequently requested subjects or by a particular entry in a particular field.

• CNN On-line HEALTH (cnn.com/HEALTH)

  This section of the CNN Website is dedicated to current health topics in the news.

Demographics and Statistics

• U.S. Census Bureau (www.census.gov)

  The statistical data available here is a good source for the national/state/county demographic information used in writing reports and community analysis.

• Bureau of Economic Analysis (www.bea.gov)

  The BEA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce and this site allows access to statistical data relevant to community economic status and useful in community needs assessment and analysis.

• National Center for Health Statistics (www.cdc.gov/nchs)

  A division on the Centers for Disease Control, the NCHS is the central agency of the government compiling statistics on the nation's health.

Internet Tools

• WWW Virtual Library Website Evaluation Links (www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm)

  A collection of links to help Web surfers critically evaluate the quality of information found on the internet including tutorials to practice learned skills.

• WebKnowHow.net (www.webknowhow.net)

  This is a good site for anyone who is considering developing their own Webpage and contains tutorials on page design, graphics, HTML, scripts, multi-media, and Web hosting.

Miscellaneous Resources

• Survey Suite (intercom.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/intercom/SurveySuite/ss_index.pl)

  This site by the University of Virginia offers the ability to construct a web-based survey on any topic and retrieve the tallied results. There is a fee for the service.

February 15, 2000 complied by Gwen Sprague, a Master of Library Science student at Emporia State University. July 18, 2007 revised by Sue Sykes Berry.