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The National Library of Medicine has partnered with many of the national leading
agencies in the healthcare information field to tackle the often difficult and
costly task public health officials and agencies in this country face when trying
to access current and reliable health and demographic information. To this end,
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, the collaboration
of these US government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences
libraries, have begun to narrow this divide in order to help “the public
health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect
the public’s health”.
As an area health sciences library serving members of this public health workforce,
we have assembled some valuable internet resources that we present here with
annotations.
http://phpartners.org/ :
The collaborative efforts of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ),
American Public Health Association (APHA), Association of Schools of Public Health
(ASPH), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA), Medical Library Association (MLA), National Association of County and
City Health Officials (NACCHO), National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM),
Public Health Foundation (PHF) and Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE).
The site has a very useful search function as well as break out main topic links,
including “Literature and Guidelines”, “Health Data Tools and
Statistics”, “Grants and Funding” and “Education and
Training” among other things.
Online Resources:
Many thanks go to the South Central Region of the NNLM and their ‘Public
Health Information on the Web’ course for much of this listing.
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