PHEAL 499: Senior Seminar in Public Health: Websites

"Supporting state and territorial health agencies to advance health equity and optimal health for all."

"CDC is the nation’s health protection agency, working 24/7 to protect America from health and safety threats, both foreign and domestic." This U.S. government site contains a lot of health information including information on healthy living, traveler's health, and diseases & conditions.

Quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages. FastStats is produced by a unit of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

GHO is the World Health Organization's (WHO) portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database. The GHO presents data from all WHO programmes and provides links to supporting information.

Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics.

NCHS is the nation's principal governmental agency for health statistics. NCHS data & publications document the health status of the population and of important subgroups; identifies disparities in health status or health care utilization; monitors trends; supports research, and evaluates impacts of public programs or policies.

The World Health Organiaztion's annual World Health Statistics reports the most recent health statistics for the WHO member states.

"Data.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. The vision for data dissemination through data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data content and more time using it."

"Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research."

A comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organizations of the United States.

CHS "offers a safe refuge and support to victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and human trafficking."

Offers information about a variety of different health programs including communicable diseases, reproductive health, and sexually transmitted infections.

This database contains "all the rules and filings for Oregon in one easy to search location."

"The Oregon Blue Book is the official state fact book about all levels of government in Oregon"

"The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) oversees the education of over 560,000 students in Oregon’s public K-12 education system."

OHA's mission is to help "people and communities achieve optimum physical, mental and social well-being through partnerships, prevention and access to quality, affordable health care."

"OEM works in the five mission areas of emergency management: Prevention, Preparedness, Mitigation, Response and Recovery."

"Salem For Refugees began as a community led effort to bring people and resources together to make Salem a welcoming place for refugees."

"Salem Free Clinics (SFC) exists to provide quality, compassionate healthcare at no cost the uninsured in our community as an expression of Christ’s love."