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Work
Useful Links
These are links I have found useful in teaching or practice. Links about cystic fibrosis are on another page.
Glossaries
Online Medical
Dictionary - brief definition of medical terminology
Medical
Glossary mainly for a lay reader, but concise and easy to read
Information
about key medical conditions - the basics of key medical conditions
An overview of
the National Health Service
A glossary
of health-care terms and abbreviations (UK)
The NHS
Explained - a simple glossary from the NHS web site
Kent
and Medway Glossary - includes health and healtcare terms
Essex Mental
Health Services - glossary of terms, particularly relating to
mental health
Statistics and Epidemiology
Statsoft
- online statistics textbook - comprehensive but sometimes complicated
Inferential
statistics - another online text
Research
Methods Knowledge Base
Sampling
- a tutorial
Qualitative
Research in Healthcare - online textbook from BMJ
Surfstat
- an good, basic Australian-based online statistics course
Rice
Virtual Laboratory in Statistics - online text, case studies,
interactive demonstrations
Lecture
notes from Colorado University (some suitable for Further Epi
and Stats, some for Basic)
Lecture
notes and handouts on statistics from University of Manchester
- some better than others, useful guide to picking the correct test.
Lecture
notes on Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics from King's
College London - quite comprehensive
SCHARR
course on statisics using SPSS
List
of statistics programs - some are quite useful particularly
StatTutor and StatsHelpFile
Summarising
and Presenting Quantitative Data - powerpoint presentation
Introduction
to Statistics - complete course
Introduction
to Non-Parametric Statistics - complete course
TRIAGE
statistics index
TRIAGE
epidemiology index
Statistics for the non-statistician - papers one
and two
from the BMJ
Statistics
Revision Course - actually quite detailed
A few useful
short statistics handouts from UMDS (good on sample size and
power and presenting data)
Cochrane
Collaboration - online learning material all about systematic
reviews and meta-analysis
Health Information
NHS Information
Authority
Online
course on health informatics
NHS Coding
and Classification Centre
Hospital
Episode Statistics Online
Wellcome
Trust article on health statistics on the web
Wellcome
Trust Newsletter - Health Information on the Internet
Essay
on history of compting in the NHS
National Electronic
Library for Health
ERDIP programme
Project
Connect
Exeter
system homepage
National
Database of Telemedicine Projects
The Internet
Guide
to critically evaluating internet resources
Free Medline services through Healthgate,
Infotrieve,
Grateful Med,
PubMed,
Medscape
BMJ
article on the NHS Net
BMJ
collection of articles on the Worldwide Web
Collected
articles on Worldwide Web from other journals
BMJ
issue March 2002 about health information on the internet
A free tutorial on how to
use the Internet - for allied health professionals. This is
part of a suite of internet tutorials aimed at a variety of professions
- for a list of all tutorials see the RDN
Virtual Training Site
Online sources of data
DoH
Online Statistics
Electronic International
Classification of Disease
WHOSIS - World
Health Organisation Statistical Data
Health
and personal social statistics, England
Statstore
- downloadable health and social datasets
NHS
Performance Indicators - downloadable data sets
Downloadable
Hospital Episode Statistics data
Hospital
activity data - by Region and NHS Trust
Neighbourhood
statistics - interactive stats on the ONS site
Office
for National Statistics - home page
Key
Health Data for the West Midlands - collection of key health
data for year 2000
MAIGIS - online geographical
information system and mapping package for West Midlands
SE Public Health Observatory
- has online information for HA's from the SE including CCHI
SW Public Health Observatory - has
online information for HA's from the SW
Demography, population and determinants
of health
UK
Census 2001 Page - aimed at the public but has copies of forms
and links to history of Census
US Census
Bureau - Worldwide popluation data and population pyramids,
searchable interactive downloadable databases
Essay
on World Population
Major
social determinants of health
Course
on Key Concepts in Epidemiology and Statistics - from UMDS,
useful lecture notes
Fetal
determinants of adult disease (The Barker Hypothesis) - editorial
review in the Irish Medical Journal
The
Solid Facts - Social Determinants of Health (pdf) - report for
WHO Europe
Acheson
Report - Inequalities in Health
Social
determinants of health in Europe - excellent essay
Web
Population Index - useful links to worldwide population data
IntlPop and HumPop
- software to simulate population changes
United Nations Population Database
Report on health issues for
mid-life and older women - useful information but rather a cranky
site
Critical appraisal
User
Guides to the Medical Literature - guides to critical appraisal
How
to Read a Paper - online book from the BMJ
TRIAGE
Evidence Based Medicine directory
TRIAGE
Systematic Reviews directory
TRIAGE
Critical Appraisal directory
Qualitative Research Methods
BMJ
publication on qualitative research
Qualitative
methods in Health Research (pdf)- document from NIH
Qualitative
research methods - briefing for managers from NELH
Software
Epi-Info -
analytic software
Some free public
health software - I haven't checked all these, but some look
useful.
Stats Direct
Other useful links
The
NHS Plan
Department of Health
Home Page
TRIAGE
Gateway to online resources
Independent
enquiry into inequalities in health
NHS Direct
The
History of the NHS - from official NHS web site
Chronology
of development of Health and Welfare Services - 1066 to 1999
How
the NHS Works - directly from the NHS web site, a guide to structure
and function
Environmental Health
Environmental
health online educational material - index and good resources
Communicating
about risks to public health - DOH report
Independent expert
group on mobile phones - report
National
air quality information archive - data archive for your area
Collected
evidence on health effects of powerlines,
static electromagnetic fields and mobile phone base stations
Environmental
Health Perspectives - online journal
Hazardous
Substances and Public Health - online journal from ATSDR
Online
NIOSH Guide to Chemical Hazards - CDC
USEPA
Handbook on Air Pollutants
Poor
housing and ill health - summary of research evidence by Scottish
Office
Health
Evidence Bulletins Wales - Environmental Health
Environmental
Risk Assessment and Management - DETR Guidance
Systematic
review of effects of housing improvement on health - from the
BMJ
Government
Departments and Agencies
Environment Agency
Health
and Safety Executive
Food
Standards Agency
National Radiological
Protection Board - information about all kinds of radiation
hazards
International Commission
on Radiological Protection
International
Atomic Energy Authority
National
Physical Laboratory - Ionising Radiation
Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pesticides
Safety Directorate
Scottish Environmental
Protection Agency
Department of
Trade and Industry
The Countryside
Agency
Department of
Transport, Local Government and Regions
DETR Environmental Protection Page
OFWAT
- Office of independent water industry regulator
UNEP - United Nations
Environmental Network (for a global perspective)
ATSDR - Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry from CDC Atlanta
COMEAP
- Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution (many online
reports here)
Housing
and Health Safety Rating System
DTI
Home Safety Network
RoSPA - lots of information
on accidents
Summary
of evidence on poor housing and ill health - from the Scottish
Office
HEBW
Bulletins on Healthy Environments - summaries of evidence from
Health Evidence Bulletins Wales
Housing and Health Canada
IFH Home
Hygiene site
COMEAP Documents
Overview of health effects of air pollution
Quantification of health effects of air pollution
Recent overview of long
term health effects of air pollution
Asthma
and outdoor air pollution
Non-biological
particles and health
Investigation
of alleged ill health due to industrial emissions
Economic
appraisal of health effects of air pollution
Effect of open-cast
mining on health
Communicable Disease
Getting
Ahead of the Curve - CMO Report into Communicable Disease Function,
January 2002
Center for Disease Control (Atlanta)
Public Health Laboratory Service
- England and Wales surveillance data
CDSC Wales
- as above but for Wales only
Food Standards
Agency
Zoonoses
Manual - American, but useful
Online medical
advice for travellers
Emerging Infectious
Diseases - Journal from CDC
Weekly Epidemiological Record
- from WHO
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report - from CDC
Infectious Disease
Practice Guidelines - from IDSA
Rise
of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections - from the US FDA
PHMEG guidance
about head lice
NHS Flu immunisation site
WHO International
Travel and Health
Wired for
Health site - health information for schools, includes communicable
disease and much more
Pathogen
information site - from Health Canada
House
of Lords report on Antimicrobial Resistance - 1998
Influenza
activity for current season - from PHLS
Disease facts index
- from PHLS, contains information and figures for communicable diseases
PHLS Guidelines
Index - guidelines and factsheets
PHLS Facts
and Figures about Legionella
Electronic
CDR Weekly - Communicable Disease Report from PHLS is now available
electronically
Communicable
Disease and Public Health - quarterly journal from PHLS
Eurosurv - European surveillance
report produced weekly and monthly
CDC
Disease Factsheets - similar to the PHLS one but US-based
Campylobacter
Infections - FactSheet from CDC Atlanta
Salmonella
Infections - FactSheet from CDC Atlanta
Infection control nurses association
Chartered Institute of Environmental
Health
Virology
online - maintained by an enthusiast, a list of links
Association of Medical Microbiologists
- includes publication factsheets about a wide range of conditions
Norfolk Health
Authority - guidance on a very wide range of communicable disease
topics
Dorset Health
Authority - guidance and leaflets for the public
UK Meningitis
Trust
InMed - Meningitis
Trust Educational Web site - lot of resources and information
about Meningitis
British
Liver Trust (provides hepatitis information)
Travel Health Information Online
SMAC Report on antibiotic
resistance - "The Path of Least Resistance" Long report
with a lot of detail
House
of Lords Report on antibiotic resistance - Long report provided
as pdf file.
Immunisation.org.uk
- facts about childhood immunisations aimed at patients and parents
FP Advisor
- free database to allow you to determine likely causes of foodborne
outbreaks based on various parameters
Tuberculosis Links
PHLS Tuberculosis
Facts
MAFF Site
on TB in Cattle
British Thoracic Society
- online TB guidelines (plus stuff about smoking)
British Lung Foundation
- lung disease links
EuroTB - European TB
Surveillance, a WHO collaborating centre
WHO Global TB Site
International Union Against TB
and Lung Disease
Report on Multi-Drug Resistant
TB
National Tuberculosis
Centre - lots of educational resources from University of Medicine
and Dentistry, New Jersey (very good)
Tuberculosis
Core Curriculum - from CDC