PH 410-Public Health Practice Series Resources

Case Studies
Supplemental Course Resources
General Public Health Websites

Case Studies

Supplemental Course Resources

These are materials available at various Internet web sites that supplement and extend the material in the various modules of this course. A few of these resources require special software such as the Adobe Acrobat reader to view files that are in the PDF format or the latest version of RealPlayer for audio-visual materials such as video clips. Recent versions of the UIC network Services Kit come with these players. If you need to, you may obtain the latest Adobe Acrobat reader and/or RealPlayer software at no cost by clicking on the following images:

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Health, United States 2007 with Trends in the Health of Americans Chartbook (PDF format). USDHHS-PHS; 2006. Available for download at the Health, United States 2007 Web Site
Community Health Flashcards. Quick and fun approach to testing your knowledge of some basic public health facts and terms.
The World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life (PDf format). World Health Organization.

PH 411: What is Public Health?

Delta Omega Classics (classic public health manuscripts and reports, mostly from the 19th century)
Health, Morality, and Housing: The "Tenement Problem" in Chicago. Garb M. AJPH 2003;93(9):1420-1430.
Invisible Safety Net Video: Part 1--What is Public Health?University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice; 1994
It's Time We Became a Profession. Sommer A and Akhter MN. AJPH 2000;90(6):845-846
John Snow Web Site. UCLA Department of Epidemiology
Orientation to Public Health. Online introductory course developed by the New York- New Jersey Public Health Training Center; 2002
Principles for the Ethical Practice of Public Health. American Public Health Association
Snow and Cholera. Slide and audio presentation developed by the University of North Carolina School of Public Health
What is Public Health? Associations of Schools of Public Health and Pfizer Pharmaceutical Corporation
What is Public Health? Public Health Data Standards Consortium

PH 412: Understanding and Measuring Health

Accuracy, Importance, and Application of Date from the U.S. Vital Statistics System. Report 6 of the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs; AMA, 2000.
Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000. (PDF Format) Mokdad AH, Marks JS, Stroup DF, Gerberding JL. JAMA 2004;291(10)1238-1245.
Avoidable Mortality in the United States and Canada, 1980-1996. AJPH 2002;92(9):1481-1484.
Community Indicators of Health-Related Quality of Life--United States, 1993-1997. MMWR 2000;49(13):281-285.
Consuming Research, Producing Health. Evans RG and Stoddart DL. AJPH 2003;93(3):371-379
Health United States 2007 Web Site. National Center for Health Statistics. Washington DC; DHHS-PHS-CDC-NCHS; 2007. Includes access to Health United States 2007 (with Trends in the Health of Americans Chart Book).
Healthy People 2000 web site for information on both Healthy People 2000 and Healthy People 2010. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, USDHHS; 2001.
Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health. US Department of Health and Human Services. Washington DC; DHHS-PHS; 2000.
Healthy People 2010: Leading Health Indicators. US Department of Health and Human Services. Washington DC; DHHS-PHS; 2000
Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010, Final Report. Institute of Medicine. Washington DC; National Academy Press; 1999
Reducing Tobacco Use. MMWR 2000;49(RR-16):1-27
State Health Facts. Kaiser Family Foundation
What Are Public Health Data? Public Health Data Standards Consortium

PH 413: Health Services and Public Health

Health United States 2007 Web Site. National Center for Health Statistics. Washington DC; DHHS-PHS-CDC-NCHS; 2007. Includes access to Health United States 2007 (with Trends in the Health of Americans Chart Book).
Healthy People 2000 web site for information on both Healthy People 2000 and Healthy People 2010. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, USDHHS; 2001.
Managed Care and Public Health. Levi J. AJPH 2000;90(12):1823-1824
Not-So-Strange Bedfellows; Public Health and Managed Care. Koplan JP and Harris JR. AJPH 2000;90(12):1824-1826
Medicine & Public Health: the Power of Collaboration (PDF format). Lasker RD. New York Academy of Medicine; 1997
Public Health Expenditures Trends in public health expenditures; 1960-2000
Time for a National Agenda to Improve the Health of Urban Populations. Freudenberg N. AJPH 2000;90(6):837-840
Trends and Indicators in the Changing Health Care Marketplace, 2002 (PDF format). Kizer Foundation; 2002

PH 414: Law, Government, and Public Health

History of CDC
Images from the History of the U.S. Public Health Service USPHS; 2000
Invisible Safety Net Video: Part 2--Local Public Health University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice; 1994
Illinois Control of Communicable Disease Code. IDPH; 2003
Local Public Health Agency Infrastructure Chartbook NACCHO; 2001
Plagues and Politics (video history of the US Public Health Service)
State Health Agencies on the Web
State Health facts online
State Public Health Information Data Base and Queries
2005 Profile of Local Health Departments (PDF format) NACCHO; 2006
TOPOFF 2 Legal Handbook (FDF format) IDPH; 2003.
What Is the Structure and Function of Government Public Health Agencies? Public Health Data Standards Consortium

PH 415: Core Functions and Essential Public Health Services and PH 416: Public Health Infrastructure

Healthy People 2010 Toolkit: A Field Guide to Health Planning. Public Health Foundation; 1999
Invisible Safety Net Video: Part 3--Core Functions University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice; 1994
Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP). NACCHO, 2000
National Public Health Performance Standards Program. CDC Public Health Practice Program Office, 2000.
Performance Measurement and Improvement. Turnock BJ and Handler AS. Chapter 18 in Public Health Administration: Principles of Population Based Management by Novick L and Mays GP. Gaithersburg MD; Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 2000
Practice of Public Health. Turnock BJ. Chapter in Encyclopedia of Public Health by Breslow L, editor. New York NY; MacMillian; 2000
Public Health Functions Web Site. Public Health Functions Project
The Past and Future of Public Health Practice. Fee E and Brown TM. AJPH 2000:909(5):690-691.
Community Strategies for Health. American Public Health Association
Building Infrastructure to Protect the Public's Health (archived webcast). ASTHO, CDC, FDA. September 2001.
Healthy People 2010: Public Health Infrastructure Objectives; Washington DC; USDHHS-PHS; 2000
Information Needs and Uses of the Public Health Workforce: Washington, 1997-1998. MMWR 2000;49(06):118-120
Principles of Community Engagement. CDC Public Health Practice Program Office; Atlanta GA; 1997
Public Health Data Standards Tutorial (modules 4-9). Public Health Data Standards Consortium
Public Health Expenditures Trends in public health expenditures; 1960-2000
Public Health Funding: The Feds Giveth But the States Taketh Away. Elliott VS. American Medical News; October 28, 2002
Public Health Infrastructure (report to Congress in PDF format) CDC;2001
Public Health Workforce: An Agenda for the 21st Century (PDF format). USDHHS-PHS; Washington DC; 1997
Public Health Workforce: Enumeration 2000 (PDF format). USDHHS-HRSA; Rockville MD; 2000
Workforce Development: A Companion Document to Healthy People 2010. HRSA; Rockville MD; 2001

PH 417: Public Health Interventions

An Ounce of Prevention...What Are the Returns? (PDF format) CDC; 1999
Effectiveness of Disease and Injury Prevention. MMWR 1996;46:No4
Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health. MMWR 1999;48:RR-11
Guide to Community Preventive Services
Healthy People 2010 Toolkit: A Field Guide to Health Planning. Public Health Foundation; 1999
Strategies for Reducing Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation, and Reducing Initiation in Communities and Health Care Systems. MMWR 2000;49:RR-12.
National Guideline Clearinghouse. AHRQ-AMA-AAHP. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
Studying a Study Online. (online tutorial and review of methods for assessing evidence in studies and the health literature) Riegelman RK, GWU-SPH.

General Public Health Web Sites

Public Health Search and Gateway Sites:

Public Health and Medical Organization Sites:

Federal Health Agencies:

Selected State and Local Public Health Agencies:

Health Data and Information Sites:

Community Health Tool Box
Healthy People 2010 Toolkit
Healthy People 2010 home page (data for HP 2010 objectives available here)
Healthy People 2000 home page
Health U.S. 2006 Web Site (Health US 2006 available here)
U.S. Census data
CDC's Mortality & Morbidity Weekly Reports
National Center for Health Statistics
CDC WONDER
IPLAN data set (Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs)
Data on Chicago community areas
Catalog of local and Illinois data sets
Catalog of national data sets
MMWR tables for specific weeks and reporting areas

Other Sites:

Public Health Practice Course Resources last revised January 23, 2007 (dkapadia)