Knowledge: community health
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- Hesperian Foundation
http://www.hesperian.org - 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)
- National Association of Community Health Centers
http://www.nachc.com/ - 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.
- Community Voices
http://www.communityvoices.org/ - 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.
- Center for Community Health, Education and Research
http://www.ccher.org/ - A Boston based health and social services agency serving the Haitian and Haitian-American community.
- The Community Guide
http://www.thecommunityguide.org/ - 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.
- Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health
http://www.nap.edu/html/concept/#inter - Evaluates performance monitoring as a means of evaluating health care delivery in communities.
- Community Health Project - Muskegon
http://www.mchp.org/ - Information on children's programs, health, and educational resources for the community of Muskegon, West Michigan.
- Community-Based Health Care Models
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/cbmodels.html - A series of research-based articles provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- Managing Community Health Services
http://erc.msh.org/chs/index.htm - A resource for those working at the community level to improve health. Tools, discussion boards and related links.
- Improving Health in the Community
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/improving/ - Discusses the use of performance monitoring to improve community health.
- Central District Health Department - Boise, Idaho
http://www.cdhd.org/ - 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.
- JWCH Institute
http://www.jwchinstitute.org - Provides a variety of programs for the underserved segments of Los Angeles county, including HIV prevention, health education and primary medical care.
- Lepra India
http://www.lepraindia.org - LEPRA India is dedicated to improve public health status of the community through implementing control programmes for leprosy and other allied diseases, improving awareness level on health issues, promoting research in health science and rehabilitating the needy and disabled.
- Club Health - Public Health Information
http://www.clubhealth.org.uk - Club Health shares research, policy and practice on health and nightlife. It carries out original research, develops public health information and promotes best practice through an international conference every two years.
- Dublin Healthy Cities
http://www.dublinhealthycities.ie - A partnership approach to enhancing the health of Dublin, its environment and its people. The site provides information on the concept, the structures, the activities and the publications.
- Health Promotion Online
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/for_you/hpo/index.html - Online magazine promoting community health through empowerment and participation, from Health Canada.
- Indiana State Dept. of Health
http://www.state.in.us/isdh/ - Health Related Issues in Indiana, with Facts, Data and Reports.
- Community Tool Box
http://ctb.ku.edu/ - Guidance in improving community health and development. Offering specific, skill-building information on a variety of community topics.
- Health-Related Quality of Life, CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/index.htm - 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.
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