The following pages list links to web sites
which contain
public health related information. Some contain documents which are
.pdf
files and you will need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to
read
them.
General Health Sites
The list below is divided into dictionaries, Australian
links and overseas links.
Dictionaries
If you need to find definitions of terms used in Public Health the
following
resources may be useful.
Dictionary
of (Ecological) Epidemiology
Edited by Jonathan Swinton. (1998-2000)
Glossary
of Environmental Health Terms
Produced by the New York State Department of Health Center for
Environmental
Health.
 National Health Data Dictionary Version 13.2
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2007.
On-line Medical
Dictionary
OMD is a searchable dictionary created by Dr Graham Dark and contains
terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine,
molecular
biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology.
It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards,
institutions,
projects, eponyms, and history.
Public
Health and Health Care Administration Glossary of 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.
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.
Hospitals (AIHW)
Includes Australian Hospital Statistics.
Infosearch: SA South
Australian
Community Health Services
A database of South Australian health and community services, produced
by Community Information Strategies Australia (CISA).
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.
METeOR home
METeOR is Australia’s repository for national data standards for health, housing and community services statistics and information.
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.
National Public Health Partnership - Publications
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.
The Future of
Public
Health
The future of public health / Committee for the Study of the Future
of Public Health, Division of Health Care Services, Institute of
Medicine.
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1988.
Hardin MD : Preventive Medicine & Public Health
A Hardin MD lists web directories in health.
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.
History of
Biomedicine
An extensive list of links to material on the history of biomedicine
from Karolinska Institutet Library, Stockholm, Sweden. As well as
western
biomedicine it covers ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, classical
Islamic,
and traditional Chinese medicine, the medicine of indigenous cultures,
and traditional Indian medicine. There is also a section on the history
of individual diseases.
Independent
Inquiry
into Inequalities
in Health
Chaired by Sir Donald Acheson. London, Stationery Office, 1998.
International
Classification of Diseases (ICD)
ICD-10 is available at this WHO site.
Leading Health
Indicators
for Healthy People 2010: Final Report
Edited by Carole A. Chvala and Roger J. Bulger. Committee on Leading
Health Indicators for Healthy people 2010, Division of Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention, Institiute of Medicine. Washington, D.C.,
National
Academy of Sciences 1999.
Measuring
Health Performance
in the Public Sector: A Summary of Two Reports
Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance
Partnership Grants, National Research Council. Washington D.C.,
National
Academy Press, 1999.
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.
Public
Health
Resources on the Internet
An extensive list of useful links from the School of Public Health
of the Queensland University of Technology.
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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