Program Planning: SBS 3496/3596

Resources and information for Program Planning in CPH

Textbook and Handbooks

Background information can be found in textbooks and places like the CDC where information has been compiled on a particular topic.

AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
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Access Medicine is an online medical resource that provides a variety of resources as access to videos, self-assessment, and medical textbooks.

Access Medicine contains many core texts such as Hurst's The Heart, Harrison's Internal Medicine or Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology.

Diabetes Mellitus: Diagnosis, Classification, and Pathophysiology
Chapter 396 from Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20th edition
Sickle Cell Disease
Chapter 75,
Medline Plus
MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Healthy People 2030
Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.

Diseases & Conditions
Browse by letter or search for the health topic, disease or condition. Depending on the disease, the main page provides links to basics information, data and statistics, surveillance data, social determinants of health data, resources and publications, research projects, and awareness campaigns.

You can also search for information on a disease or condition on the CDC website by using Google and adding site:cdc.gov (e.g. diabetes site:cdc.gov). For statistics, prevalence or rates, add statistics OR rates to the search (e.g. maternal death (statistics OR rates) site:cdc.gov).
Interactive Diabetes Data
Includes national and state level.
A Snapshot of Diabetes in the U.S.
Geospatial Determinants of Health (ATSDR)
The purpose of the Geospatial Determinants of Health (GDOH) is to (1) define the geospatial drivers of health with an emphasis on factors that vary by place, (2) serve as a catalyst to define, promote, and advance the use of place in research and practice across the public health community, (3) shape the public health curriculum of schools across the United States to advance geospatial analysis, statistics, and technology in the study of public health.

From the National Library of Medicine this resource contains overviews of health conditions and links to published literature in PubMed.

Examples:

ClinicalTrails.gov
-a registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world.

Subjects: Public Health

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