Public Health

PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

INFORMATION SOURCES

STATISTICS AND REPORTS

ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANISATIONS

KEY GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

LOCAL PUBLICATIONS

PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

Health Action Zone - HAZNet

The South Yorkshire Coalfields Health Action Zone (SYHAZ)

Department of Health - Public Health and Clinical Quality

Health Development Agency

Health Protection Agency

INFORMATION SOURCES

ASSIA for Health - (on CD ROM in the Library)

Caredata Abstracts

The Cochrane Library (via NeLH)

Electronic Library for Social Care (eLSC)

HealthPROMIS database (Health Development Agency database)

National electronic Library for Health (NeLH)

National electronic Library Health - Health Management

National Research Register

HealthPROMIS database (Health Development Agency database)

NHS CRD databases (DARE, NHSEED and HTA)

OMNI - Organized Medical Networked Information

Ovid BIOMED (biomedical databases and full-text journals)

SOSIG -Social Sciences Information Gateway

TRIP index (index to reviews, guidelines and evidence summaries)

See MEDICAL RESEARCH page for links to electronic databases, journals and books.

Electronic Journals

	e-BMJ - British Medical Journal online
	BMJ Publishing - 24 full-text specialist journals(ATHENS password required)
	British National Formulary (BNF) via NeLH
	Journals@Ovid Full Text - about 150 full-text journals (ATHENS password required)
	ZETOC - (tables of contents of hundreds of journals)

Statistics and Reports

DH - Statistics and surveys - links to:

          HPSSS
          Health Survey for England
          Hospital Activity Statistics
          Hospital Episode Statistics
     NHS Quarterly Review
       NHS Performance
          NHS Star Ratings
          Personal Social Services Performance
          PSS Star Ratings
          Waiting times

National Statistics - official UK statistics

Associations, Organisations and PH Schools

	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
	Public Health Observatories
	Trent Public Health Observatory
	UK Faculty of Public Health Medicine
	University of Cambridge: Public Health page
	University of Oxford: HSRU, Department of Public Health
	Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford University
	University of Nottingham: School of Public Health
	University of Leeds: Nuffield Institute for Health
	University of Glasgow: Department of Public Health

DH - Publications - Public Health
(Search POINT for all publications, COIN for circulars)

Saving Lives

Health Inequalities - Department of Health

Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health- (Sir Donald Acheson)

Vision to Reality

Smoking Kills - A White paper on Tobacco

Local documents and reports

1. Finningley Airport: Health Impact Assessment (full report)
2. Health Improvement Programme for Doncaster 2002-2005
3. Joint Report of the Directors of Public Health 2000 - Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster.
4. South Yorkshire Health Inequalities Atlas - A Report of the Directors of Public Health in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield.
5. Joint Report of the Directors of Public Health for Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster Health Authorities, 2000/2001
6. Doncaster Health Authority Lifestyle Survey 2000
7. Health Needs Assessments

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