ONLINE DATABASES & REPORTS
As the Internet has grown, so has the number of database
driven web sites. This page provides annotated links
to online databases which can be useful to health educators
involved in program planning and grant writing.
Adolescent Pregnancy
The California Wellness Foundation
Just released a report on California teen pregnancy hot spots which identify
locations with high teenage birth rates in California entitled Adolescents
and Their Families in California's Teen Pregnancy Hot Spots.
The report includes demographic information and opinions on sex ed and
contraception use. Further info: pra@philliberresearch.com.
Web site: http://www.letsgetreal.org/Home.htm
The Built Environment
The Prevention
Institute's Thrive Toolkit for "Health and Resilience
in Vulnerable Environments" includes information on
the built environment. It provides a tool to help you understand
and prioritize the factors within your own community that
can help improve health and safety. The tool can help answer
questions such as: How can I identify key factors in my
community and rate their importance? How are these factors
related to health outcomes? What can I do to address each
factor? Where can I go for more information?
Chronic
Disease Prevention
Chronic Disease Indicators
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/cdi/
The Chronic Disease Indicators (CDI) is a cross-cutting set of 90 indicators
that were developed by consensus and that allows states and territories to uniformly
define, collect, and report chronic disease data that are important to public
health practice and available at the state level. In addition to providing access
to state-specific indicator data, the CDI web site serves as a gateway to additional
information and data resources.
Chronic
Disease Prevention (CDP) Databases
Provide access to information on chronic disease prevention and health promotion
to health professionals responsible for supporting, planning, developing,
implementing, and evaluating chronic disease prevention and risk reduction
efforts. The databases provide bibliographic citations and abstracts of various
types of materials including journal articles, monographs, book chapters,
reports, curricular materials, fact sheets, and proceedings.
The Burden
of Chronic Diseases and Their Risk Factors:
National and State Perspectives 2002
Provides information on the burden of chronic diseases in all 50 states and
the District of Columbia, as well as state-specific data on the the prevalence
of key risk factors. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/burdenbook2002/index.htm
Demographics/Epidemiology
County Health Status Profiles 2008
Contains range of health statistics, on the State
website (PDF). http://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/Pubs/OHIRProfiles2008.pdf
ERS State Fact Sheets
Contains frequently requested data
for each state and for the total United States. These
include current data on population, per-capita income,
earnings per
job, poverty rates, employment, unemployment, farm and
farm-related jobs, farm characteristics, farm financial
characteristics, top agricultural commodities, top export
commodities, and
the top counties in agricultural sales.
http://www.raconline.org/states/
Human Development Index
The American Human Development Project has announced the introduction of the
American Human Development Index, a single measure of well-being for all Americans
based on indicators in the areas of health, education, and income. http://measureofamerica.org/well-o-meter/
The Kaiser Family Foundation's State
Health Facts Online
Contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health
policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation. http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/
The Kaiser Family Foundation - Customized Health Data Sheets
GlobalHealthFacts.org is
a free Kaiser Foundation Web site that
provides easy access to the latest country-level
health information. Now, Web visitors can create customized
data sheets comparing up to five countries against any or
all of the 100 health, demographic and economic indicators.
Each sheet can be viewed online,
converted into a PDF file, printed, emailed or saved so it
can be easily shared electronically with colleagues, handed
out at meetings or briefings, and used for a variety of other
purposes.
Disparities/Minority
Health
DiversityData.org
Diversitydata.org allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas throughout
the U.S. perform on a diverse range of social measures that comprise a
well-rounded life experience. On this website you will find a dataset of
socioeconomic indicators for metropolitan areas in the form of tables,
thematic maps, and customizable reports. The data covers various racial/ethnic,
income and nativity groups. Multiple data sources have been used to show
data for numerous domains such as housing opportunities, economic opportunities,
residential integration, and health. A series of reports based on the Diversity
data indicators are also planned.
The
Health Research & Educational
Trust Toolkit
This online toolkit
is intended to provide hospitals, health systems, clinics
and health plans information and resources necessary for collecting race, ethnicity
and primary language data from patients to track the prevalence and nature
of health disparities and help focus efforts to eliminate disparities and improve
quality of care.
HispanicHealth.info
This interactive Web portal from the National
Hispanic Medical Association aims to be a resource for health professionals
and the public on diabetes and obesity in the Hispanic community. The portal
-- HispanicHealth.info, which is available in English and Spanish -- includes
the latest research findings and treatments, offers cultural guidance to
professionals and allows providers to share information about health issues.
The site is funded by the HHS Office of Minority Health, the association,
the National Hispanic Health Professions Leadership Network and the association's
Council of Medical Societies (NHMA release, 3/20).
HIV/AIDS
and Minorities: A Guide to Federal Programs
This website was developed by the Office
of HIV/AIDS Policy in response to public
inquiries for more information on HIV-related
programs administered or initiated by the
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
The Guide contains information on the agencies
within DHHS that are involved in HIV/AIDS-related
activities, highlighting their minorityfocused
HIV/AIDS programs.
REACH
U.S. Resource Library
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Across the U.S. has established
a national infrastructure to promote evidence- and practice-based public
health programs, community-based participatory approaches, and the integration
of systemic influences. REACH U.S. supports and disseminates programmatic
activities that are successful in the elimination of racial and ethnic health
disparities.
Healthy People 2010
The U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS)
regions are focusing attention and compiling evidence-based resources for
selected Healthy People 2010 priorities. Use resource listings, event information,
and contacts on this site to get involved in your region's Healthy People
2010 activities and priority area(s). Click on the map or state listings
to find information for your HHS region. For each region's priority area(s),
you can download, print, or search listings of action resources in Acrobat
Reader. Two-page resource listings describe Healthy People 2010 companion
resources, sites with evidence-based strategies, and other tools to achieve
and promote relevant objectives. http://www.phf.org/HPtools/regions.htm
Injury Prevention
National Violent Death Reporting System
The National Violence Prevention Network is a broad-based
coalition of national organizations dedicated to violent death
prevention by advocating for the full implementation of the
(NVDRS) in the United States. NVDRS is a comprehensive,
linked reporting system that collects and centralizes information
on homicides and suicides from a variety of sources, such
as medical examiners and coroners, law enforcement, hospitals,
public health officials and crime labs. Information from
NVDRS provides a better understanding of the circumstances
surrounding violent deaths and helps officials and organizations
put into place effective prevention policies and programs.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/profiles/nvdrs/default.htm
Injury
Prevention Journal: Full Text Archives
British Medical Journal (BMJ), the parent company of the Injury Prevention Journal,
plans on making full-text, archived issues free to view from all of their 23
journals, including the Injury Prevention Journal. You will be able to browse
all articles over 12 months old, as well as use their folder feature, which allows
you to save interesting articles and searches in a personalised folder. You can
also sign up to receive new alerts. Registration for the site is required to
view the articles and the process only takes a few minutes. To register, go to http://journals.bmj.com/cgi/register?jnl
Mental Health
Mental Health Directory of Consumer-Driven Services
The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
has produced a Directory of Consumer-Driven Services
(CDS). The purpose of the Directory is to provide consumers,
researchers, administrators, service providers, and
others with a comprehensive central resource for information
on national and local consumer-driven programs. Such
programs have a proven track record in helping people
recover from mental illnesses. The National Mental
Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse is funded
by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,
Center for Mental Health Services. For access to the
Directory, click on: http://www.cdsdirectory.org/index.html
Nutrition
Nutrition and Physical Activity Policy Database
The Prevention Institute, with funding from The California Endowment, announces
a searchable database, designed to provide community advocates, health professionals,
policymakers and those working in related fields with concrete examples of local-level
policies that have been adopted and/or implemented to improve nutrition and physical
activity environments. From joint use agreements to formula restaurant ordinances,
we hope to capture what cities, counties, special districts, regional bodies
and school districts are doing to make healthy eating and activity a more realistic
option. http://www.preventioninstitute.org/sa/policies/index.php
Pesticide Poisoning
Online Pesticide Poisoning Diagnostic
Tool
The Pesticide Action Network (PAN) and the Northwest Regional Primary Care
Association (NWRPCA) recently launched this new online resource to help health
care professionals diagnose and report pesticide related illnesses. Users
can access symptom, first aid and treatment information for about 1,900 pesticides.
The web site also provides reporting information for all 50 states. www.pesticideinfo.org
Policy
ENACT Local Policy Database
Local jurisdictions across California are adopting new policies to improve
opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity. The Strategic Alliance
launched the Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT) Local
Policy Database to capture examples of innovative and practical solutions to
concerns such as unhealthy vending, poor air quality, unsafe streets, blight,
and economic under-development. The tool now houses over 100 policies and includes
links to hundreds of California coalitions advocating for environmental and policy
change. http://www.preventioninstitute.org/sa/policies/about.php
Prevention
Partners in Information Access for
the Public Health Workforce
A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations
and health sciences libraries, their mission is to link the public health
workforce to information for improved practice. Their web site - http://phpartners.org/ -
provides an exhaustive listing of links for:
- Health Promotion and Health Education
- Literature and Guidelines
- Health Data Tools and Statistics
- Grants and Funding
- Education and Training
- Legislation
- Conferences and Meetings
- Finding People
- Discussion and E-mail Lists
- Jobs and Careers
Reproductive Health
The
Alan Guttmacher Institute Contraception Counts
This resource
provides
comparative data on contraceptive needs and
services for each U.S. state and congressional
district. http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/state_data/index.html
Alan Guttmacher Institute "Our
Work"
http://www.guttmacher.org/programs/index.php
The Alan Guttmacher Institute has recently updated it’s
research pages, offering a whole new approach to finding
social science research, public education and policy analysis.
The
new “Our Work” pages break down the Institute’s
vast resources into four broad thematic categories—youth;
services and financing; pregnancy, contraception and abortion;
and sex and relationships. Each of these pages can be easily
navigated via an interactive world map to zoom in on region
and country-specific information where available.
Search Engines
Health Education Search Engine
http://www.chef.org/resources/index.php
The Comprehensive Health Education Foundation announces
new search engine. Use this powerful tool to search
the Internet for prevention and health education
information. Unlike other search engines, theirs returns results only
from reviewed and approved sites, obviating the need
to
sort through thousands of sites to
find what you’re looking for.
Substance Abuse
National Registry of Evidence-based Programs
and Practices
http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov
This database greatly expands the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration’s
efforts to help local organizations make informed
decisions about evidence-based interventions for
the prevention and treatment of mental
health and substance use disorders. The National Registry of Evidence-based
Programs and Practices (NREPP) is a searchable
database with up-to-date, reliable information
on the scientific basis and practicality of interventions. Users, such as
community organizations and state and local officials,
can perform custom searches to identify
specific interventions based upon desired outcomes, target populations and
service settings. TO SUBMIT AN INTERVENTION FOR
REVIEW: Visit the Web site or send an
e-mail to NREPP@samhsa.hhs.gov.
Women's
Health
The Women’s Health
and Mortality Chartbook
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) and the U. S. Department of Health and
Human Services recently released a new report, "," a
collection of current state data on critical issues of relevance to women’s
health. The chartbook ranks each state, the District of Columbia
and Puerto Rico in 27 indicators, including major causes of death,
health
risk factors,
preventive care, and health insurance. DOWNLOAD REPORTS: www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/chartbook.htm
World Health Issues
GlobalHealthFacts.org
Since it was first identified as a public health emergency
more than a decade ago, the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic
has leveled off for the first time, according to a World Health
Organization (WHO) report released on March 22, 2007. However,
while the TB incidence rate remained stable in 2005 compared
to the previous year, there were still 8.8 million new TB
cases in 2005 and drug-resistant TB, HIV/AIDS and other obstacles
stand in the way of controlling the epidemic. Kaiser’s
website, GlobalHealthFacts.org, features new TB data just
released in the 2007 WHO report, “Global Tuberculosis
Control: Surveillance, Planning and Financing.” The
site also includes data on TB and HIV co-infection displayed
in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded
for custom analyses.
Youth
and Families / MCH
Young Children’s Health in California
The Center for Health Policy Research and First 5 California
released a new
online resource this month. This online data source provides county and regional
information on health topics specifically related to children up to five years
of age.
Kids
Count
This project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation,
has expanded its interactive, on-line database
of 2000 Census data. This new system provides
access to
data on families and children in a far simpler and more detailed
format than what is currently available from
the Census Bureau's web site. Data are presented
in three different formats; profiles, rankings, and raw data downloads,
for
users with a variety of needs and interests.
Preconception
and Pregnancy
This Maternal and Child Health electronic resource guide offers a selection
of resources that analyze perinatal health statistics, describe effective
prenatal care programs, and report on research aimed at improving access
to and the quality of prenatal care and improving perinatal health outcomes.
Separate sections identify resources on specific aspects of preconception
and pregnancy such as folic acid consumption and the adverse effects of environmental
exposures, tobacco use, and drugs and alcohol use.
If you are a CCLDHE member, and have a database or report
that you would like to include in this section, please
contact the CCLDHE Webmaster.
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