GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH SITES/GUIDES/LINKS

• HiPHIVE (Hawaii Public Health Virtual Emporium)
• HealthWeb--Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
• Public Health Library, University of California at Berkeley--excellent links to public health resources by topics
• BiositesBioSites is a current listing of important Internet resources in the biomedical sciences. The sites evaluated here have been selected as part of a collaborative project by staff in the Resource Libraries within the Pacific Southwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine

http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/biosites/
• Emory University's Public Health Information Links  http://www.sph.emory.edu/PHIL/
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources
• National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
• HealthWeb
• "Virtual" - Public Health Center, Martindale's Health Science Guide
• Association of Public Health Laboratories http://www.aphl.org/
• American Public Health Association
• Council on Education for Public Health  http://www.ceph.org/
• Public Health Foundation

• CDC Public Health Training Network
• CDC Public Public Health Practice Office  http://www.cdc.gov/phppo/
• National Association of County and City Health Officials  http://www.naccho.org
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials http://www.astho.org
• Public Health Functions Project http://web.health.gov/phfunctions/
• Public Health Knowledge    from the United Kingdom directed to public health practitioners
• Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals  http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/partners/

• Hawaii Agencies
• Department of Health  http://www.state.hi.us/doh/
• State Health Department searching from CDC; limit your search to Hawaii
• Hawaii Medical Library
• Hawaii Health Information Corporation    http://www.hhic.org
• State of Hawaii
• See also section on Statistical Data relating to Hawaii click here

U.S. GOVERNMENT RESOURCES/GENERAL LINKS

• US Government Agencies
• Legislation--Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet  http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html
• U.S. Government Printing Office Federal Register, Code Federal Regulations, Congressional Record, etc.
• Fedworld--Links to Federal Agencies
• U.S. Government Sources
• Google search US government pages www.google.com/unclesam
• Searchgov.com 
• Hamilton Library, Government Documents Department

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• International Agencies
• Asia Pacific Research Online http://www.ciolek.com/
• CIA World Factbook, Information by country
• Background Notes from the U.S. State Government; brief information on individual countries
  http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes

• Hamilton Library Foundation and Grants Collection
• Office of Research Services, University of Hawaii  http://www.hawaii.edu/ors/
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Funding Opportunities
• CDC Grants and Procurement Office
• EPA Grant Writing Tutorial
• Foundation Center--Includes links to other sites offering Grant Information; click on Grantmaker Information and follow the links on that page
• Community of Science through Hamilton Library  http://www.cos.com/
• NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts/ NIH Office of Extramural Research http://www.nih.gov/grants/guide
• RHCD Rural Health Care Division
• Rural Information Center Health Services Funding Resources
• Substance Abuse & Services Administration Mental Health (SAMHSA) Funding Opportunities
• Grantseeker Toolkit from University of Washington 
• GrantsNet
• Internet Resources for Grants and Foundations   http://www.ala.org/acrl/resmay97.html
• Writing a Grant Proposal; excellent links from Michigan State University

• Click here to see a list of international, national and Hawaii statistical sources, and links to these sources.
• HyperStats Online  online statistics textbook, provided by David M. Lane, a Psychology

and Statistics Professor at Rice University, introductory level.
• EpiInfo Software--free download site
• Public Health Software, Websites, & Internet resources in the Public

Domain--selected by Delta Omega Honorary Society, Johns Hopkins  http://www.jhsph.edu/People/Org/DeltaOmega/software/

• Local Agencies/Resources
• Center on Aging Univesity of Hawaii at Manoa
• Elderly Affairs Division, C & C Honolulu
• Executive Office on Aging, Hawaii Department of Health
• Growing Old in a New Age, Center on Aging, UH Manoa
• Administration on Aging
• American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
• FirstGov for Seniors
• Gerontological Society of America
• GeroWeb from the Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University
• National Institute on Aging
• Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center
• Alzheimer's Disease Resources from University Memory and Aging Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland

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• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, includes links to grant opportunities and related resources 
• Complementary/Alternative Therapy Links from Hawaii Medical Library
• For journal articles: search PubMed; go to limits and choose Complementary Medicine subset

• See Epidemiology and Diseases Page
• Medlineplus --links to information on disease conditions, organizations, etc.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

http://www.guideline.gov/
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/ncipchm.htm
• National Safety Council 
• Chronic Disease
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
• See also links on Consumer Health Page

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• Cornell University Ergonomics WEB http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/
• ErgoWeb  http://www.ergoweb.com a commercial web site offering free as well as subscription access materials; from a University of Utah project
• OSHA Ergonomics Page  http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/ergonomics/index.html
• Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Review of the Evidence (1998)

from National Institute of Health (full text available)

• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, US DHHS
• Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US DHHS
• Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), information on Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Program
• Health Resources and Service Administration, DHHS
• Information for State Health Policy Program sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Electronic Policy Network Health Policy
• Forum for State Health Policy Leadership  National Conference of State Legislatures
• Health Hippo, collection of health policy and regulatory materials
• American Healthcare System  articles from the New England Journal of Medicine, 1999
• Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
• Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Includes work in health data relating to state health policy, Healthy Start, Medicaid, etc.
• Office of Rural Health Policy, HRSA, DHHS
• Public Agenda Online

HEALTH CARE FINANCING/INSURANCE

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly HCFA Healthcare Financing Administration)
• Health Insurance Association of America 
• Health Insturance Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Census  http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins.html

• Combined Health Information Database  http://chid.nih.gov/

Contains abstracts of health promotion and education materials and program descriptions produced by federal health-related agencies.
• CDC Prevention Guidelines Database http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/prevguid.htm
• Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, DHHS  http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/
• See also Healthy People

• Health Services Research Web Sites from the National Information Center on Health Services

Research and Health Care Technology  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hsrsites.html
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines sponsored by the Agency for Health Care
  Policy and Research

• Links to Healthy People 2000 and 2010, Guide to Preventive Health Services etc. http://web.health.gov/
• State Data on Healthy People 2000 objectives

 http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/data/SearchesQueriesSelect.shtml
You may logon with your name and then click anonymous or become a registered user.

• Federal Legislation--Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet  http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html
• FindLaw  a comprehensive legal resource  http://www.findlaw.com/
• Hawai’i Legal Information and Links from Hawaii State Bar Association
• Hawaii Revised Statutes
• Hawaii State Legislature--includes full text bills  http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/

Click on Legislative Documents for text of bills, etc. as well as the Hawaii Revised Statutes
For guide to writing testimony, understanding bill numbering, etc., click on Legislative Information in the sidebar; then Citizens' Guide.
• Legislative Reference Bureau Library  http://www.hawaii.gov/lrb/lib.html
• Congressional Research Service Reports--selected full text from National Council for Science and the Environment

• Hawaii
• Family Health Services Division, State Department of Health
• MCH LEND (Maternal and Child Health Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities), Center for Disability Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• MCH Title V Data from MCHB data searchable and downloadable sorted by state
• MCH Metasites
• National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
• National Maternal and Child Health Clearinghouse
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau
• Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center
• Maternal Child Health Statistics
• M/MC Netlinks searchable database of Internet resources in population, health and development from Johns Hopkins University; includes links for topics such as child health, maternal health, etc.
• MCH Web Ring  links to non-commercial sites re maternal child health
• Children
• Child Trends
• Future of Children  Center for the Future of Children at The David and Lucille Packard Foundation. Summarizes current research and policy issues relating to the well-being of children.
• Institute for Child Health Policy
• State of the World's Children,  UNICEF
• PrenatalEd

MCH Alert  weekly email newsletter on maternal and child health (MCH) news and policy

• Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum is a national advocacy organization dedicated to promoting policy, program, and research efforts for the improvement of health status of all Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
• Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations  http://www.aapcho.org/
• Cross-cultural Links from UCSF Primary Care Guidelines
• CulturedMed SUNY Institute of Technology Library, culturally competent health care for refugees and immigrants
• DiversityRx Promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
• EthnoMed, Ethnic Medicine Guide, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington
• Healthweb: Minority Health
• Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, USDHHS
• Minority Health Network, from Global Health Network, University of Pittsburgh
• Minority Health Project (MHP), the University of North Carolina Department of Biostatistics.
• Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, UH includes some references to native Hawaiian health
• Office of Minority Health Resource Center, Public Health Service, USDHHS; a good starting point to explore resources in minority health. http://www.omhrc.gov/

Refugees and Resources Internet Resources, Sept. 1998  from the American Library Association,

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• Vivisimo search engine automatically groups results by category
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