General Health Sites
This is a collection of links which don't seem to fit easily into the more specific subject categories listed in the left hand column, but which may be of general interest.
Australian Sources
An extensive range of online documents is available at the Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare site.
Australian
Health Trends 2001
Michael de Looper and Kuldeep Bhatia. Canberra : Australian Institute
of Health and Welfare, 2001.
Australia's
Health
A biennial report produced by the Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare, Australia's Health is a compendium of information on health
status,
service provision and expenditure. The report and its companion volume,
Australia's Welfare, are produced on alternate years.
Australia's
Welfare
This biennial report can be used as a specialist reference in a
particular
field, as a general reference on welfare services in Australia, or as a
description of the state of Australian social policy.
Generational Health Review (South Australia)
The Final Report, Better Choices Better Health, was produced in
April 2003.
International
Health - How Australia Compares (Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare
1998)
International Health - How Australia Compares, by Michael de Loop,
and Kuldeep Bhatia. Canberra, Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare,
1998.
National
Delphi Study on Public Health Functions in Australia - Report on the
findings
- January 2000
The National Delphi Study, involving respondents from a spectrum of
public health areas builds on work by the World Health Organisation
(WHO),
and in the United States, where definitions of core or essential public
health functions have been developed and applied in various ways. There
is also a separate volume of appendices.
National
Health
Priority Areas
From the National Health Priorities and Quality Branch.
Social Capital
A collection of resources from Paul Bullen, Management Alternatives
for Human Services.
A
Social Health Atlas of Australia. 2nd. edition, 1999
A social health atlas of Australia, by John Glover, Kevin Harris, and
Sarah Tennant. Public Health Information Development Unit, University
of
Adelaide, 1999. This publication consists of 9 volumes - one for
Australia
as a whole, and one for each state or territory.
Social Health Atlas of South Australia (Online), 2008
Public Health Information Development Unit, University of Adelaide.
Overseas Sources
Canadian Institute for Health Information - Publications and Products
Crossing the
Quality
Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine.
Washington : National Academy Press, 2001.
Glossary of Health Care and Health Care Management Terms
Definitions have come from a variety of sources including MeSH
(National
Library of Medicine - Medical Subject Headings); the sources are given
in parentheses after the definition. Full references are given at the
end
of the glossary. Recent additions, as of July 1997, include Evaluation
terms.
Health and
Behavior:
The Interplay of Biological, Behavioral and Societal Influences
Committee on Health and Behavior: Research, Practice and Policy, Board
on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, Institute of Medicine.
Washington
D.C., National Academy Press 2001. (Advance copy, uncorrected proofs)
Health On the Net Foundation
The Health On the Net Foundation (HON), created in 1995, is a not-for-profit International Swiss Organization. HON's mission is to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information. It has sophisticated search interfaces to allow access to a wide range of quality health material.
Health Topics
A to Z
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this site
contains
a wealth of information about various common, and exotic diseases.
History
in Focus: Medical History
History in Focus provides original articles, book reviews, and links to
historical sources. This issue (No. 3, Spring 2002) addresses a number
of health topics including epidemic disease in London.
International
Classification of Diseases (ICD)
ICD-10 is available at this WHO site.
Milbank
Memorial Fund Reports
Reports on a variety of health topics many with full text. Hard copies
are available free of charge, and can be ordered online.
Mill Hill
Essays
The Mill Hill Essays are published annually to promote the public
understanding
of Science. They were inspired by a series of BBC Radio lectures given
by eminent scientists in the 1950s, and subsequently published as a
book.
They are written by members of staff of the National Institute
for
Medical Research and guest authors, and are designed to be accessible
to
anyone with an interest in science and the natural world.
New York Academy of Medicine - Library - Grey Literature Report
The Grey Literature Report is 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. If you don't know what grey literature is click here.
NLH - Public Health
Resources from the National Library for Public Health in the U.K.
Public Health Image Library
Much of the information critical to the communication of public health
messages is pictorial rather than text-based. Created by a Working
Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL
offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures.
Reports of the
Surgeon General
From the National Library of Medicine, the full text of the reports
of the US Surgeon General.
Science.gov
Health & Medicine
Science.gov is an interagency intiative of a number of U.S. government
science organizations. It allows in depth searching of government
scientific and technical information.
UC
Berkeley.
Public Health Library. Public Health Resources on the Internet
An extensive list of resources, subdivided by topics.
"Virtual" Public Health Center - Martindale's Health Science Guide
A well maintained site with annotated links to a wide range of
material.
Individual topic sections allow easy browsing.
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