Community Health
Community Health
Community Health Links
- Managing Community Health Services A resource for those working at the community level to improve health. Tools, discussion boards and related links.
- Improving Health in the Community Discusses the use of performance monitoring to improve community health.
- JWCH Institute Provides a variety of programs for the underserved segments of Los Angeles county, including HIV prevention, health education and primary medical care.
- Community Tool Box Guidance in improving community health and development. Offering specific, skill-building information on a variety of community topics.
- WebMD: ZAP Asthma Targets Inner-City Children Discusses the use of community health workers to screen and teach asthma intervention and prevention to inner-city children and their families in Atlanta.
- Center for Community Health, Education and Research A Boston based health and social services agency serving the Haitian and Haitian-American community.
- Central District Health Department - Boise, ID A Public Health Resource site. One of Idaho's seven independent public health districts, providing community health services to Ada, Boise, Elmore, and Valley Counties.
- Community and Public Health The American Medical Student Association promotes awareness and involvement in areas related to keeping communities healthy.
- Expanding the Public Health Envelope through Faith Community Public Health Partnerships Written transcript of a speech presented at the American Public Health Association.
- Community-Based Health Care Models A series of research-based articles provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- Community Based Nursing Practice Project Develops community-based nursing education teaching settings. Topics include migrant farmworker health care, foster-child health care, home health care, care of recovering addicts, and health care in Asian immigrant communities.
- Community Health: Tools of the Trade Resources assisting the development of community-focused health delivery systems. Includes guidelines, directories and assessment guides.
- Health and Community Research Programme Exploring the linkages between social contexts, communities, health and wellbeing. Includes current projects, about HCRP and links. Based in the UK.
- Wired Health: Community Development Online magazine promoting community health through empowerment and participation, from Health Canada.
- Commmunity Voices Health Care for the Underserved is a five year national health initiative. Working from the community level up, aims to improve the quality and access of health care for the underserved.
- John Muir and Mount Diablo Hospital Offers Community Health Education, screenings, programs and services promoting good health and well-being for individuals in the community. (California)
- The Community Guide Provides health professionals and community leaders with information needed for informed decision making on the most effective public health strategies, policies and programs for their communities.
- National Association of Community Health Centers National organization which provides services and technical assistance to health centers in support of their mission to provide health care services to the poor and medically underserved.
- Health-Related Quality of Life, CDC Information about CDC's use of health-related quality of life measures to track population health and identify health disparities in population subgroups, and in state and local communities.
- Community Health Project - Muskegon Information on children's programs, health, and educational resources for the community of Muskegon, West Michigan.
- Hesperian Foundation Latest news, available books, and ongoing projects of the Foundation. A non-profit organization committed to improving the health of people in poor communities around the world by making health information accessible. (Berkeley, CA)
- Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health Evaluates performance monitoring as a means of evaluating health care delivery in communities.
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