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Interdisciplinary science and practice of protecting and improving health of communities and populations. Public health includes such diverse topics as preventive medicine; health education and promotion; sanitation and hygiene; communicable-disease control; emergency medical services; assessment and monitoring and organization of health services and policies. Comparable terms for public health medicine include social medicine and community medicine.
| RESULTS |  | | International Public Health Watch A group of public health professionals providing organized access to current resources on public health.http://www.ldb.org/iphw/index.htm |
| WWW Virtual Library - Public Health Directory of public health links sorted TOally and geographically.http://www.ldb.org/vl/ |
| Health Systems Research, Inc. A public policy research and consulting firm that offers program and technical support to publicly-funded health and human service agencies, nonprofits, and foundations. (Washington, DC)http://www.hsrnet.com |
| Public Health InfoLinks Continuely updated database of important online public health research resources. Maintained by the Rollins School of Public Health.http://www.sph.emory.edu/PHIL/ |
| Betty C. Jung - Public Health Organized access to public health, education, jobs, careers, sites for professionals, students, educators, kids and general public.http://www.bettycjung.net/index.htm |
| Arrigo Recordati Prize Prize for scientific research, established to promote research in a critical field for public health. It will be awarded every two years and the first edition will focus on hypertension.http://par.hypothesis.it |
| Injury Prevention Web Contains data on injury occurrence in each of the 50 US states, information about prevention, policy recommendations, and a resources section with links to government and nonprofit sites worldwide.http://www.injuryprevention.org |
| European Who's Who in Health Promotion A database of human resources which describes the fields of expertise and activities of about 5,000 experts involved in health promotion and public health in Europe. Detailed information on the skills and centres of interests of those included in the database, the organisations for which they work and their current projects. This programme is supported by the European Union.http://whoiswho.ensp.fr |
| United States Public Health Service Listing of the agencies and programs from the U.S.A. Department of Health and Human Services.http://www.hhs.gov/pharmacy/pp/DHHSpresent/ |
| Medscape Public Health and Prevention Journal articles, free continuing education, case reports, medical news, conference coverage, and patient education resources on a variety of public health TOs. [Requires free registration.]http://www.medscape.com/publichealthhome |
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