Web Resources in Demography and Related Subjects
Health Links
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CDC WONDER
Warehouse of public health data from the Centers for Disease Control.
Core Public Health Journals -- Version 2.0
From the Public Health/Health Administration section of the Medical Library Association
Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)
Accrediting agency for schools of public health.
Directory of Health and Human Services Data Resources
Excellent directory of health datasets from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Disability and Employment: A Research Focus of the Urban Institute
DOLPHN (Data Online for Population, Health & Nutrition)
An online statistical data resource containing selected current and historial country-level demographic and health indicator data. The database was created for USAID.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Pennsylvania Bureau of Health Statistics
Réseau Espérance de Vie en Santé (REVES)
[International Network on Health Expectancy and the Disability Process]
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Policy and Administration Favorite Websites
From Penn State's Department of Health Policy and Administration.
KaiserEDU
A web site developed by the Kaiser Family Foundation providing data, literature, and news for health policy students and faculty.
kaisernetwork.org
Health policy resources from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Uninsured Reference Library (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Women's Health Policy: The Basics (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Health Disparities -- Specific Resources
American Indian Health
From the National Library of Medicine.
Community Solutions to Health Disparities Database
Sponsored by the American Public Health Association.
Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity & Medical Care (Kaiser Family Foundation)
This chartbook is intended to serve as a quick reference on racial/ethnic disparities in health, health insurance coverage, and health care access and quality. The document highlights the best available data and research, providing a selective review of the literature.
Life Course Health Development: An Integrated Framework for Developing Health, Policy, and Research
By Neal Halfon and Miles Hochstein (Milbank Quarterly, vol. 80, no. 3, 2002)
Minority Health Archive
Open Access archive of minority health literature, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health.
Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative
From the National Institutes of Health Office of Minority Health. Includes conferences, data and statistics, and publications.
Multi-Cultural Health Resource Guides
From the Penn State Life Sciences Library.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Health Disparities Research
Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project Monograph
Race, Ethnicity and Health Care Reference Library (Kaiser Family Foundation)
The Right to Equal Treatment
An Annotated Bibliography of Studies on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare, Their Causes, and Related Issues (from Physicians for Human Rights)
Translating Research into MCH Public Health Practice: Eliminating Health Disparities (University of Chicago conference)
Some presentations available online in the conference archives.
Health Disparities -- Organizations
Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD)
John E. Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health (NIH) center dedicated to scientific research and training to reduce global health disparities.
National Cancer Institute Health Disparities Research
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)
Reproductive Health Indicators Database
Based on 17 reproductive health indicators compiled by the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization.
American Public Health Association (APHA)
WWW Virtual Library: Epidemiology
WWW Virtual Library: Public Health
