Resources and Links

Local UW Links:

Center for Public Health Informatics cphi.washington.edu
UW  Library healthlinks.washington.edu 

North West Center Public Health Practice
  www.nwcphp.org 

Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) 
www.bhi.washington.edu  or  informatics.washington.edu  

Health Services  http://depts.washington.edu/hserv 

National Links:

NHII  National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII)  
Public Health-Related Activities  http://aspe.hhs.gov/sp/nhii/phrelated.html   

NLM   http://www.nlm.nih.gov
NLM Health Services Research & Public Health Information Programs http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrph.html 

National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hsrportal.html 

NLM has updated the Public Health Informatics Bibliography, www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/phi2001.html 

  
CDC Public Health Information Network  http://www.cdc.gov/phin  
CDC Bio-Terrorism  ( http://www.bt.cdc.gov )

CDC's MMWR

  
Public Health Informatics Institue ( www.PHII.org )

RWJF   www.rwjf.org 

 
Health e-Technologies Initiative http://www.hetinitiative.org/ 

Literature Searching:

PubMed  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed 
PubMed Clinical Queries  or Systematic Reviews

OHSU CliniWeb Searching

UW EthnoMed healthlinks.washington.edu/clinical/ethnomed

RAND Science & Technology  rand.org/publications/

Institute of Medicine  http://www.iom.edu/reports.asp 

GIS & Map Links:

Public Health Statistical & Mapping Software Sites
www.bettycjung.net/Phsoftware.htm

http://gis.washington.edu/

www.lib.washington.edu/maps/

www.geodata.org/links.html 

Electronic Text/Journals Information:

American Journal of Public Health www.ajph.org  
Harrison's Online *
SAM:ScientificAmericanMedicine*
Best Evidence 
ACP Journal Club 
Cochrane: www.cochrane.org/
  Cochrane Library (complete)
  Cochrane:CDSR  
MD Consult
* Most resources restricted to Yale or UW

Medical Coding:

Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
   www.nlm.nih.gov/     research/umls/umlsmain.html
Public Health Vocabulary and Public Health Data Standards

Medical Slides etc:

 http://www.medslides.com

  Derm online

Other Resources 
Dictionary
  www.dictionary.com
Web Chat
  www.aol.com/aim/quickbuddy.html
 http://messenger.msn.com 
http://messenger.yahoo.com/

People reverse look up
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W3C  www.w3.org/XML

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