Community
Based Projects
http://www.thecommunityguide.org
Guide to Community Preventive
Services - being
developed
by a non-Federal Task Force on Community
Preventive Services (Task Force), appointed by the Director of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to provide leadership
in the evaluation of community, population, and health care system
strategies to address a variety of public health and health promotion
topics such as physical activity. The Task Force is supported by
staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and by
a variety of public and private partners. Although convened by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, the Task Force is an
independent, decision-making body.
http://ctb.ku.edu/
Community Tool Box - University of
Kansas. Theoretical and
practical issues on developing a health prevention/health promotion
project. Also has great resources on what works and what doesn't
in terms of community based projects as well toolkits etc. for projects.
http://www.amsa.org/cph/cphres.cfm#guides
American Medical Student
Association (AMSA) Community and Public Health
Resources.
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/index.html
Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
- University of Washington - is
a nonprofit organization that promotes health
through partnerships between communities and higher educational
institutions.
http://chrc.midwestern.edu/copc.htm#Projects
Midwestern
University Community
Health
Resource Center, Chicago - Student Research Projects. Examples of
the diverse and creative projects that students have completed.
http://www.kff.org/
Kaiser
Family Foundation - Health policy, media resources, public
health education
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Diabetes
http://www.cdc.gov/health/diabetes.htm
Center for Disease
Control and Prevention Health Topics Site includes a diabetes fact
sheet,
a surveillance report that contains important information on the
prevalence
and incidence of diabetes and diabetes-related complications.C
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/diabetes.htm
The National Institute of Diabetes and
Digestive and Kidney Diseases provides information on
everything from diagnosis to nutrition including valuable caveats about
diabetes in Hispanic Americans and African Americans.
http://www.diabetes.org/
This American Diabetes Association
website
contains clinical practice recommendations and standards of care for
diabetes patients. The site is full of patient education tools on a
variety of topics: the newly diagnosed diabetic, living with diabetes,
exercise. It also contains links to consumer magazines and medical
journals about diabetes. An internet resources page helps you
sort through the overwhelming amount of diabetes information on the
world wide web.
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http://www.cche.net/principles/content_all.asp
Centres for
Health
Evidence.net - Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice
http://pedsccm.wustl.edu/EBJ/EB_Resources.html
PedsCCM and
IntensiveCare.com: Resources for Practicing Evidence-based
Medicine
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier/
Bandolier Home
Page
http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html
Health on the Net
Foundation - HON Code of Conduct for medical and health Web sites
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/idle/evaluating.html
Evaluating
Internet
Information - Virginia Tech University Libraries
(Modified with
permission
from Susan Beck, The Good, The
Bad & The Ugly: Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Resources
Evaluation Criteria, http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/evalcrit.html.)
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http://views.vcu.edu/~dimlist/
Sponsored by the Medical College of
Virginia
and the North American Primary Care Research Group, this impressive
collection of primary care resources for medical students offers access
to a dermatology and colposcopy atlases, an EKG file room, an
auscultation assistant and concise students handouts on a variety of
medical
topics.
http://www.guideline.gov/index.asp
Primary Care clinical practice
guidelines.
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Demographics
and Statistics
http://www.ors.state.sc.us/hd/index.html
South Carolina Budget & Control
Board
Office of Research and Statistics offers health and demographics
information. You will be able to obtain general demographics by
county and region. You will also have the capacity to perform
on-line queries of their health information database, for example-
"average cost of a diabetes admission to Abbeville County Memorial
Hospital in 1997".
http://www.state.sc.us/dhec/
South Carolina DHEC homepage. The
site
outlines health resources by county, including addresses and phone
numbers of key agencies. The health statistics are sparse.
http://www.sciway.net
South Carolina's Front Door.
Whether
you want to know the history of your county or local news and weather,
this is the website for you.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/01hustop.htm
Health, United States, 2001, from the
National Center for Health Statistics - provides trend
data on ambulatory care, inpatient care, determinants and measures of
health, health care coverage and major federal programs, as well as
urban
and rural health, adolescent health and aging.
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Health
and Behavior
http://www.cfah.org./
The Center for the
Advancement of Health showcases behavior-based interventions and their
effect on adherence and outcomes for a variety of diseases, including
diabetes.
http://www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph/projects.html#principles/
These are valuable
principles for anyone wishing to partner for improvement in healthcare.
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Patient
Information
http://www.coveringtheuninsuredsc.org/
Cover the Uninsured South Carolina
http://www.medlineplus.com
http://www.healthfinder.com/
http://familydoctor.org/
The American Academy of Family Physicians'
site
for patient information.
http://health.allrefer.com/
Wide variety of health-related topics from AllRefer.com:
medical encyclopedia;
wide variety of topics; over 2500 pictures, illustrations, diagrams
&
animations
Cheaper
sources for prescription
medications:
http://www.rxassist.org/
http://www.pharmapath.com
http://www.rxhope.com
http://www.needymeds.com
http://www.rxoutreach.com/
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Reference
Sites and On-line Texts
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
National Library of Medicine offers
databases
and electronic information sources including PubMed and Internet
Grateful Med.
http://www.medmatrix.org/reg/login.asp?/index.asp
Developed for health care
practitioners,
MedMatrix assigns rank to internet resources based
on their clinical relevance.
http://www.gretmar.com/webdoctor/home.html
Webdoctor-a comprehensive index of
internet
medical resources
http://text.nlm.nih.gov/ftrs/pick?ftrsK=46665&cd=1&t=936822855&collect=ppip&dbName=ppipc
The Clinician's Handbook of
Preventative
Services- full on-line text
http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/FPContents.html
Family Practice Handbook- full on-line
text
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