Topics beginning with 'I'
- American Social Hygiene Posters ca. 1910-1970
A searchable collection of social welfare historic archives.
- CDC: Public Health Image Library
Gateway to CDC's pictures. They welcome public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages.
- Medical Image Databases on the Internet
- Medical Images: Finding, Downloading, and Managing Them
- United States Pharmacopeia Pictograms
The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) is the official public standards-setting authority for all prescription and over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements, and other healthcare products manufactured and sold in the United States.
- CDC National Immunization Program
A source of vaccine and immunization information for healthcare professionals, the public, and the media, also links to their influenza website and details regarding pandemic and avian flu.
- CDC Traveler's Health
Information on the status of infectious disease, and insect and arthropod borne diseases throughout the world, recommends appropriate vaccinations, and identifies local travel clinics. Information on outbreaks and travel warnings is also posted.
- FDA Vaccines Information
FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) regulates vaccine products. CBER's website links to their Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), information on current vaccine development, guidance and approval documents, and FAQs.
- WHO International Travel and Health
Includes documents on health considerations regarding travel by air, exposure to environmental hazards, accidents, injuries, and violence, infectious diseases, and similar risks.
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Injury and violence prevention
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CDC
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for Injury Prevention and Control
Works to reduce morbidity, disability, mortality, and costs associated with injuries. WISQARS™, their Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data.
- Injury & Violence Prevention Program, WA State Dept. of Health
Develops and maintains programs designed to reduce injuries. The program has three program units: Unintentional Injury, Intentional Injury, and Data Analysis.
- National Safety Council: Injury Facts
Includes resources on driving, falls, farms, lead, poison prevention, preparedness, and workplace safety, as well as a series of fact sheets offering statistics, tips, and suggestions for making life safer.
- SafetyLit
SafetyLit includes summaries of "scholarly" reports and journal articles about injury occurrence and risk factors. Articles are considered relevant if they concern any of the pre-event or event elements of the Haddon Matrix; the epidemiology of injury; or the financial, personal, or societal costs or consequences of the any injury or risk factor.
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International and global health
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- GlobalHealthFacts.org
Operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation, GlobalHealthFacts.org data provides on HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB and other key health and socio-economic indicators.
- Global Health Reporting
Operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Global Health Reporting provides journalists and other information seekers with the latest information on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
- World Factbook
An in depth profile on every country includes statistics on infant mortality, HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate, and current environmental issues.
- World Health Report
Provides countries, donor agencies, and international organizations with the information needed to make policy and funding decisions.
- World Health Organization's Global Health Atlas
Aims to provide a single point of access to data, reports and documents on the major diseases of poverty including malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, the diseases on their way towards eradication and elimination and epidemic prone and emerging infections (including meningitis, cholera, yellow fever and anti-infective drug resistance.)
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