Public Health

Public Health includes organizations such as federal public heath websites, state departments of public health, and schools of public health.

Resources in this category:

American Journal of Public Health
http://www.ajph.org/

"The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) is the No. 1 publication dedicated to original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health."

BioMed Central | BMC Public Health
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/

"BMC Public Health is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of epidemiology and public health medicine."

Hazardous Substances & Public Health
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/HSPH/hsphhome.html

The purpose of this newsletter is to disseminate information to the public about "exposure and adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life associated with exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites, unplanned releases, and other sources of pollution present in the environment."

Injury Prevention Online
http://ip.bmjjournals.com/

Injury Prevention is an international scholarly journal covering all types of injury--unintentional, occupational, and intentional-- and all age groups.

Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care
http://www.rno.org/journal/

This online journal offers the latest in peer-reviewed research and lived experience features for the rural nurse. Experienced columnists present their thoughts and invite comments using the DISCUSSION POINT email feedback system, which allows monitored discussion of the issues presented in the journal.

Research Activities
http://www.ahrq.gov/research/resact.htm

"Research Activities includes announcements of Agency products and projects and summarizes research findings from studies supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research)."

Student Journal of Health Sciences
http://www.ep.liu.se/ej/sjhs/

"All students at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoeping University, Sweden, which is internationally well-known fo r its inter-professional training and problem-based learning, are now writing scientific papers in the field of health sciences as part of the examination. Together with the Student Union the Faculty supports this electronic journal in which abstracts sum marising student papers are published. Published articles are all approved for publishing by the multi-professional scientific advisory board of the journal. The content of the journal covers a broad field within the health sciences. Student in medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, biomedical laboratory research, biomedicine, social caring and public health etc. may all contribute with abstracts. Journal available electronically as: HTML; Word 5.1 (Macintosh); Word 6.0 (Macintosh and Windows); RTF (Macintosh and Windows)."