Public Health Links
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
American Public Health Association
New England Journal of Medicine
Journal of the American Medical Association
Environmental Protection Agency
This list was assembled by a previous student in Public Health and is organized by unit.
Unit I - Public Health,
Science, Politics and Prevention
HIV/AIDS:
http://www.thebody.com/index.shtml
This website is said to be the complete HIV/AIDS resource. It give basic info on aids, prevention, treatment, quality of life, policy, and rates of HIV around the world. It also provides links for people who have just been recently diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.
Typhoid Mary:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/
This website is presented by Nova who does science programming. They presented a movie on Typhoid Mary entitled The Most Dangerous Woman in the America. On this site you can read the history of her quarantine time, read letters that she wrote herself, read arguments between historians on whether Mary was a victim or villain, and participate in activities where you try and determine and trace the outbreak of the disease. It provides a lot of interesting info on Typhoid Mary.
Unit II - Epidemiology
Epidemiology
http://www.epidem.com
This website is for a peer-reviewed scientific journal on epidemiology. At this website you can find many articles on varying aspects of epidemiology: cancer, heart disease and other chronic illnesses to reproductive, environmental, psychosocial, infectious-disease and genetic epidemiology.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm
This website presents a group of numbers for the leading causes of deaths in the United States. It provides the number of deaths for many diseases and incidences including: cancer, stroke, diabetes, and varying accidents. It also provides links for leading causes varied by age, race, sex, and states of residence.
Epidemiologic Surveillance
http://www.who.int/topics/epidemiologic_surveillance/en/
This website from the World Health Organization provides some information on epidemiologic surveillance. It provides external links to integrated disease surveillance, vaccines surveillance, and communicable disease surveillance. This is a good resource because it is not just U.S. data.
Unit III - Infectious
Diseases
Differences between viruses and bacteria
http://www.microbe.org/microbes/virus_or_bacterium.asp
This website attempts to explain the differences between bacteria and viruses. It talks about the way they look as well as the way that they replicate.
Influenza
Centers for Disease Control Avian Influenza Page
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/
World Health Organization Avian Influenza Page
http://www.nfid.org/library/influenza/
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, information about Influenza
http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/
Information about the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
STDs
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/Stats_Trends/Trends2000.pdf
This website from the CDC is a PDF document that talks about trends of STDS in the United States. It includes information on the magnitude of the STD epidemic, STDs at a glance, trends in each disease, a break down according to race/ethnicity, gender and age, as well as info on rates of STDs in cities and states.
Antibiotic Resistance
http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/anti_resist.html
This website is from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It provides an overview about antibiotic resistance and includes many external web links for varying topics including fact sheets, drug information, consumer tips, and answers to different questions.
Unit IV - Chronic
Diseases
Chronic Disease Overview and Other Information
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/overview.htm
This website provides an over view of chronic diseases: the leading causes, the costs of the diseases, costs of prevention, impact on woman and minority races, as well as infant and maternal mortality rates.
Genetic Disorders and the Human Genome Project
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/medicine/assist.shtml
This website is the Human Genome Project site that provides information about the project including information on: genetic disorders, genes that cause disorders, interpretations, genetic testing, and ethical/moral/social issues with genetic testing. The website also provides a lot of links to other website for more information.