EPID 600 - Introduction to Public Health Practice - Summer 2016

 

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Community Assessment

• Census Bureau
• CDC's BRFSS
• CDC's Community Guide (Very useful dataset)
• CDC NPH Performance Standards
• Community Health Status Indicators
• Conducting a Community Assessment
• Dartmouth Atlas
  
• From the BMJ Burden of disease
• Atlas of US Mortality
• Helping America's Youth - Data sources.
• KFF - State Health Facts
• NACCHO-Welcome to the MAPP Website
• VDH - Statistical reports and Tables
• Large Health Data Sets - Links (Useful if your are developing a research project)
• Health Statistics at the National Library of Medicine (Links to multiple resources, Good research material)
• The world health report 2006 (The world as a community)
• U.VA. Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service (links to muiltiple state datasets)
• VCU Center for Public Policy VCU's planning centers
• Virginia's Planning District Commission Regional Planning in Virginia
  

GIS

• APHA Dec 2005 meetintg - GIS Systems.
• APHA Nov 2004 Innovative use of GIS in community needs assessment
• CDC&GIS
  GIS & Public Health Mapping (WHO-2009)
• Pittsburgh PH Supersite. GIS as a PH Tool - PowerPoint slide show NCHS - National Vital Statistics System
• The PH GIS at ESRI
• Application of GIS to public health issues