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- Center for Health Care Strategies
– Promotes high quality health care services for low-income populations and
people with chronic illnesses and disabilities. This objective is achieved through
awarding grants and providing "real world" training and technical assistance to
state purchasers of publicly financed health care, health plans, and consumer groups.
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Guide to Community Preventive Services –
The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) serves as a
filter for scientific literature on specific health problems that can be
large, inconsistent, uneven in quality, and even inaccessible. The
Community Guide summarizes what is known about the effectiveness,
economic efficiency, and feasibility of interventions to promote
community health and prevent disease.
- healthfinder.gov
– The healthfinder® web site is an
award-winning Federal Web site for consumers, developed by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal
agencies. Since 1997, healthfinder.gov has been recognized as a key
resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human
services information on the Internet. healthfinder.gov links to
carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,500
health-related organizations.
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healthinsuranceinfo.net
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Provides state-specific information on private health insurance coverage and links to
local organizations offering assistance. A resource, developed by
the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, useful in working through local
healthcare access issues.
- National Health Information Center (NHIC) – NHIC is a health information referral service of the Office
of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP). Resources for health
professionals and consumers include listings of all Federal health information
centers and
clearinghouses, toll-free numbers for health information, and national health
observances.
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National Public Health Leadership Development
Network –
The National Public Health Leadership Development Network is a consortium
of organizations and individuals from academic institutions, national
and international organizations, and local, state, and federal agencies
dedicated to advancing the practice of public health leadership. The
mission of the Network is to build public health leadership capacity by
sustaining a collaborative and vibrant learning community of leadership
programs in order to improve health outcomes.
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Peace Corps – Are you looking for a different way to share
your knowledge and expertise in health related fields, all while living
and working in a developing nation? Peace Corps may be the answer.
Founded by President John F. Kennedy, the Peace Corps was created to
provide education and technical training to citizens of other countries
and to foster cross cultural exchange. Peace Corps is looking for
volunteers to work in the areas of health education, HIV/AIDS education
and awareness, or water sanitation.
- Public Health Employment Connection
– This site, hosted by Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health,
provides information on a broad array of jobs in the public health field.
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Trust for America's Health – A non-profit, non-partisan organization
dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and
working to make disease prevention a national priority.
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