FYI from the RML: Online Resources for Public Health

Fri May 9 16:06:24 PDT 2003

Marcia Zorn of NLM's Customer Services & Reference staff periodically
compiles an extensive list of online resources for various topics.  Below
are those from her May 7th compilation that are of particular interest for
Public Health.

BIOTERRORISM / TERRORISM

A Journalists' Guide to Covering Bioterrorism from the Radio & Television
New Directors Foundation (on an Air Force Base Web site)
http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfsel/wBioterror.html

WebMD links to Biological and Chemical Weapons
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/61/67288.htm?lastselectedguid=%7B5FE84E90-BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348

Audio of "When Terrorism Strikes: Reporting the Story-A session to help
journalists avoid pitfalls when covering medical disasters", American
Association of Health Care Journalists
http://www.ahcj.umn.edu/2003conf.htm#terrorism

The Silent Vector, a simulation exercise in which participants got
increasingly credible & specific intelligence of a lg-scale attack on
the nation's critical energy infrastructure. The results of the exercise
are outlined. Key Lesson #1 relates to communication. Press release:
http://www.csis.org/press/ma_2002_1021A.htm
Findings are interesting (The17-18 Oct 2003 date may be a typo?) :
http://www.csis.org/isp/sv/SVwebfindings.pdf

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS / PROJECTS

Project Design Handbook c2002 (153p.) from Cooperative for Assistance
and Relief Everywhere, Inc (CARE)
http://www.kcenter.com/care/dme/CARE%20Documents%20PDF/Project%20Design%20Handbook%20(Published%20Version).pdf
  More links http://www.kcenter.com/care/dme/

Guidelines & Categories for Classifying Participatory Research Projects
in Health Promotion (Canadian) gives guidelines meant for grant
application reviewers to appraise proposals for funding as participatory
research. The guidelines can also be used as a checklist for planning
projects.
http://www.ihpr.ubc.ca/guidelines.html

Assessing the Health of Communities: Indicator Projects & Their Impacts
http://www.ihpr.ubc.ca/pdfs/frankish-cphifinal_v4.pdf
(81 page pdf September, 2002)
from the Canadian Population Health Initiative at the Canadian
Institute for Health Information.  About the report:
http://www.ihpr.ubc.ca/ahc/

CULTURAL COMPETENCE / CROSS-CULTURAL / DIVERSITY / ETHNICITY

What Is Cultural and Linguistic Competence? February 2003. Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
http://www.ahrq.gov/about/cods/cultcompdef.htm
http://www.ahrq.gov/about/cods/cultcompdef.htm

Errors in Medical Interpretation & Their Potential Clinical Consequences
in Pediatric Encounters.  Pediatrics, V 111# 1 Jan 2003, pp. 6-14
http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/111/1/6

Health Professions Education: Issues in Cultural Competence (National
Center for Cultural Healing)
http://www.culturalhealing.com/profedu.htm

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 10/24/2001 HealthCast
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=350

Diversity Bibliography by David Shedden updated 4/15/03
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=1187&sid=5
(more by author)

Information Competence for Black Studies (Tutorial)
http://www.csulb.edu/~ttravis/IC/CSULB/intro.htm

Closing the Gap Initiatives from BlackHealthCare.com
http://www.blackhealthcare.com/BHC/ClosingTheGap.asp

Diverse Communities, Common Concerns: Assessing Health Care for Minority
Americans (Commonwealth Fund rept (March 2002)
http://www.cmwf.org/programs/minority/collins_diversecommunities_523.pdf

2003 CMS Project for Medicare+Choice Organizations program requires that
projects address either clinical health care disparities or provide
culturally & linguistically appropriate services.
Providing Oral Linguistic Services
http://www.ahrq.gov/about/cods/oralling.htm
Planning Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Svcs.
http://www.ahrq.gov/about/cods/planclas.htm
Full reports
http://www.cms.gov/healthplans/quality/project03.asp (February, 2003)

National Infant Immunization Week April 13-19.  The DHHS & CDC nat'l
campaign targeting the U.S. black & Hispanic population. To order
immunization booklets or download a poster.
http://www.cdc.gov/nip

Providers Guide to Quality & Culture updated
http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=1.0.htm&module=provider&language=English

E-LEARNING / ED TECH  / DIGITAL & DISTANCE LEARNING

Scenario-Based E-Learning Model: A CDC Case Study
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/apr2003/gathany.htm

Lee Rainie's "Learning and Communicating in a Digital World" PowerPoint
presentation
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/events/conference2003/present/rainie.ppt
Accompanying Webcast
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/events/conference2003/webcast.html

"E-education: Design and Evaluation for Teaching and Learning" Journal of
Digital Information, V3#4 2003
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/editorial/

Ed Tech Tool box
http://www.uctltc.org/technology/index.html

Journal of Digital Information, V1#1 (Theme: Usability of digital info)
Usability of digital information1997-09-26
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?theme=e

Computer Skills for Information Problem-Solving: Learning & Teaching
Technology in Context, Updated ERIC Digest.
http://ericit.org/digests/EDO-IR-2002-04.pdf

A promise of e-learning to provide anytime, anyplace learning -but also
options & choices about "ideal" environment in which to be an e-learner"
http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/tactix/Features/aplacetolearn.htm

How People Learn ( http://bob.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ )
Chap 1 Learning: From Speculation to Sciences Chap 1
http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ch1.html
Chap 9: Technology to Support Learning
http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ch9.html  published in 1999, has good
background material http://bob.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ch9.html

Cited in Stephen Downes' OLDaily: "Six Factors to Consider when Planning
Online Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education"
http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/spring61/levy61.htm

EMPOWERMENT / CONSUMER DIRECTED / PROBLEM-SOLVING

Welcome to Do-it-Yourself Web Health Care
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/4.1/response/monroe/samirhp/index.html

Automated Healthcare Product & Service Info Systems: Assessing Consumers'
Perceptions & Expectations
http://a-cme.org/PDFfiles/2003-Paper11.pdf

Alert from Paula Zeller's NewMediacy:  Seeking Health Care Information:
Most Consumers Still on the Sidelines (Mar 2003, Issue Brief No. 61, Ctr
for Studying Health Systems Change)
http://www.hschange.com/CONTENT/537/

"Developing a Model of Consumer Search Strategies for Mental Health
Svcs" "Analyses suggest that similar to certain other health care
decision-making, individuals are most likely to depend on personal
sources of information such as referrals and recommendations"
http://a-cme.org/PDFfiles/2003-Paper10.pdf

Turning the rhetoric into reality: patient empowerment opportunities for
the pharma industry (Pharmafocus April 29, 2003)
http://www.pharmafile.com/pharmafocus/Features/feature.asp?fID=273

Consumer-Directed Health Care
http://www.thedrg.com/d/nws/pr/csb_emp2w.pdf

"Taking on Diabetes"
http://www.takingondiabetes.org/index.cfm?JZXD=C4CA4238-A0B9-2382-0DCC509A6F75849B&CFID=327124&CFTOKEN=60213384
  with links to New Mexico Diabetes Practice Guidelines

Personal Empowerment: Strategies to Develop & Evaluate Interventions
http://www.healthpro.org.uk/publications/17.html

E-Health and Consumer Empowerment. How Consumers Use Technology Today
and in the Future to Improve Their Health 7/23/2001 HealthCast
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=278

Empowering Client Communication: Smart Patient and Community
Interventions (JHU/CCP PPSlides)
http://www.maqweb.org/maq_mini_U/docs/ECC.pdf

Information and Communications Technologies: "Bringing Consumers into
the Decision Making Process" - Slides from presentation by E.H.
Shortliffe 9/25/2001 slides
http://www.icsbhs.org/presentations/P5-4_Sydney-9-2001.pdf

"Patient" Empowerment With Specific Reference to Disabled People: A
response to the Dept of Health 'Patients Charter', Sept 1992
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Derbyshire%20CIL/patients.pdf

Strategic Overviews: -	Patient Empowerment and its Potential Impact on
the e-Marketing of Pharmaceuticals and Treatments (6p pdf)
http://www.wmrc.com/businessbriefing/pdf/pharmatech2001/reference/reference2.pdf

Patient Education, Counselling & Empowerment in a Health Promoting
Hospital
http://www.univie.ac.at/hph/10ic/10ichaerm.pdf

HEALTH  &/or SCIENCE LITERACY and NUMERACY

Child to Child, a successful example of health workers & teachers
working tog for Health & Numeracy
http://www.child-to-child.org/newsletter/2001-15.html
See especially Child to Child: A Practical Guide. Empowering Children As
Active Citizens
http://www.child-to-child.org/guide/guide.pdf
-	Malaria (Lessons on Health for grade 5)
http://www.child-to-child.org/publications/malaria.pdf
-	Accidents (Lessons on Health for grade 6)
http://www.child-to-child.org/publications/accidents.pdf
-	Smoking (Lessons on Health for grade 6)
http://www.child-to-child.org/publications/smoking.pdf
-	Under 5 Clinic Card http://www.child-to-child.org/publications/under5.pdf

HIV / AIDS

Mark Schoofs won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for a series on AIDS in Africa
when he worked for the Village Voice. Now a staff writer for The Wall
Street Journal, Schoofs is on leave to write a book on global AIDS. To
read his Pulitzer series, go to:
http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/africa/

PUBLIC HEALTH / SARS /

FDA site to inform the general public about Antibiotic Resistance, to
provide documents generated by Govt agencies about the problem, and for
strategies for combating it. The site also has papers outlining some
general recommendations about how the problem can be contained with the
cooperation of doctors, hospitals, & an aware public
http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/anti_resist.html

Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? Educating Public Health Professionals
for the 21st Century
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10542.html?onpi_listserv050203

UK's Public Health Laboratory Service
http://www.infouk.org/index.php?go=1114

Alert from Paula Zeller's New Mediacy:  SARS News Drives Traffic to
Health-Related Sites, According to Nielsen//NetRatings (4/11/03,
Nielsen//NetRatings)
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/news.jsp
MSN Health with WebMD was a popular site with SARS content, experiencing
108% growth since the previous week.  Other top sites were WebMD (62%
growth), the CDC (58% growth), AOL Health (34% growth), and the NIH (16%
growth).

Information, links, and plans & counterplans for coaches & students on
the 2002-2003 national c-x debate topic, "Resolved: That the US federal
govt should substantially increase public health svcs for mental health
care in the US."
http://www.psychlaws.org/GeneralResources/students/highschooldebate.htm

Diabetes Life Lines Newsletter V17#2 Spr 2002 from U. Ga Extension Svc
Coll of Family & Consumer Science
http://www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/PDF/DBL17-2.pdf
List of more Extension pubs http://www.fcs.uga.edu/extension/ext_pubs.html
Spanish Extension pubs http://www.fcs.uga.edu/extension/sp_pubs.php
Newsletters
http://www.fcs.uga.edu/extension/news_pubs.php#dll

Assn of Asian-Pacific Community Health Organizations (Chinese  English
Hmong  Ilocano  Korean Lao  Samoan  Tagalog  Vietnamese
http://www.aapcho.org/display.pl?template=pp_language

MedConnect
http://www.medconnect.com/

Media Awareness Network http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm
Tobacco Labels lesson
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/elementary/tobacco/tobacco_labels.cfm

Hard to Reach: Rural Homelessness & Health Care Jan 2002  32p pdf
http://www.nhchc.org/Publications/RuralHomeless.pdf

The Partnership for Community Safety Web site for first responders,
policy makers & the public (includes links to  materials, safety goals
for community leaders, member sites & a press pg).

"Redesigning Medicare: Considerations for Rural Beneficiaries & Health
Systems," a Rural Policy Research Inst Ctr for Rural Health Policy
Analysis brief (PB2001-6)
http://www.rupri.org/healthpolicy

National Health Information Center
http://www.health.gov/NHIC/NHICScripts/Entry.cfm?HRCode=HR1229
database of links to organizations for the following topics.
-	Advocacy
http://www.health.gov/NHIC/NHICScripts/Hitlist.cfm?Keyword=Advocacy
- 	Health Policy
http://www.health.gov/NHIC/NHICScripts/Hitlist.cfm?Keyword=Health%20Policy
Rural Health
http://www.health.gov/NHIC/NHICScripts/Hitlist.cfm?Keyword=Rural%20Health
State Resources
http://www.health.gov/NHIC/NHICScripts/Hitlist.cfm?Keyword=State%20Resources

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