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Provides information on the Public Health program at the University at Albany, as well as news from the School of Public Health. Has information useful to prospective, new and current students in the School.
The University at Albany Campus Health Center has put together a basic fact sheet on H1N1, including frequently asked questions (FAQ), and information specific to the needs of faculty, staff and students on campus. Further links are also provided.
The CDC offers an up to date, authoritative guide to the H1N1 flu currently cirulating in the United States. Provides practical health advice, as well as links to other authoritative sites.
"One stop access to the U.S. Government: H1N1, Avian and pandemic flu information"
The World Health Organization provides a world view of the current flu situation, including FAQs and maps of countries affected.
Offers extensive listing of health topics (such as avian influenza and cancer), and a large collection of health information, broken down by participating country. Health statistics and news are also contained on this site.
International health organization focusing on the Americas. Offers regional news and scientific information.
Extensive listing of health topics, including an alphabetic listing of information on diseases and conditions. Offers news, podcasts, and statistics.
Posts health news affecting New York state. Also lists a large number of "Current Issues", including West Nile Virus and Medicaid.
The American Public Health Association has assembled a long list of state and local health department links.
This resource from MMWR offers a clickable map to locate state health department web pages.
The APHA page offers detailed information on this association, including legislative areas of interest and public health news. A public health career mart provides resources for students and job seakers.
Access to Web sites maintained by or for scholarly Public Health societies around the world
Over 5,000 definitions and lengthy information on medical terms are found the fortieth edition of this classic dictionary.
Almost 5,000 entries cover a wide range of Public Healh terms.
Enriched with illustrations, this standard medical dictionary provides brief entries on medical terms.
Covers topics on a broad range of public health topics including environmental health, drug abuse, epidemiology, nutrition, demographics, and diseases. Biographical information is also included.
56,000 brief entries are covered by this medical dictionary that tries to be comprehensive.
6,000 dictionary entries cover terms and concepts found on food labels, advertising or in the media.
This work covers every aspect of the human body, from major systems to causes of disorders. Recent issues like mad cow disease are discussed, as well as ethical issues.
This encyclopedia offers broad coverage of epidemiology in almost 500 lengthy articles.
This webpage covers bird flu broadly, covering areas such as key facts, the current situation, prevention and outbreaks. It produced by the Center for Disease and Prevention.
Produced by the World Health Organization.
Broad information is provided on cancer, clinical trials and statistcs.
Offers an A-Z listing of health topics, a directory of organzations, a drug database, and weekly newsletters on a variety of subjects. Produced by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, in the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Combines Google Maps with official alerts and news, to show disease outbreaks over the last 30 days. Information can be aggregated by disease.
Search photos, illustrations and videos in the area of Public Health. Produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations .
This important report series from the World Health Organization (WHO) is available online from 1995+. The print version is also available in the Science Library, with call number RA 8 A265, in the lower level.
1460 journals are available - some are open access and others block access to current issues (anywhere from one month to two years after publication).
This report from the CDC offers a broad range of searchable reports, including some statistical data.
All Conferences is a directory by subject that focuses on up-coming conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events, and meetings.
Each Wednesday, World Health News brings together current public health stories from a wide variety of sources. Published by the Center for Health Communication, of the Harvard School of Public Health.
This general collection of statistical material includes the Statistical Abstract of the United States, as well as resources on health and population.
This resource produced by the CDC "...provides a single point of access to a wide variety of public health reports and data systems, both local and external, categorized ... by topic. "
Large collection of health data, including their FastStats A - Z, and data broken down by United States and state categories. Has online access to Health USA back to 1993.
The nation's principal health statistics agency lists a large group of vital statistics. This includes birth, mortality and fetal death data, data on marriages and divorces, a national survey of family growth and a national death index.