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BMJ Specialty: Public Health

Cochrane Public Health Group

Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom - comprehensive public health information resource. For professionals there is careers, training and CPD information as well as guidance, standards and data on a number of public health topics. For others, there is an explanation of what public health is, a history of public health and an explanation of what public health professionals do.

Health EU - the official public health portal of the European Union. Provides considerable consumer health information as well as some useful material for health professionals and researchers - with links to health statistics on Eurostat.

Lifestyle Elf - blog listing summaries of the latest research

Local/community health profiles from Association of Public Health Organisations. Local Authority Health Profiles are designed to show the health of people in local authorities across England. They have been produced by Public Health Observatories and will be updated every year. These Health Profiles can be used by local authorities and the health service to highlight the health issues for their local authority area and to compare them with other areas. The profiles are designed to show where there are important problems with health or health inequalities.

Links to specific local profiles on the health profiles website:

• Newcastle Under Lyme
• Staffordshire
• Staffordshire Moorlands 
• Stoke on Trent 

Medline Plus Health & Wellness Topics – US-based

Disasters / Fitness and Exercise / Food and Nutrition / Personal Health Issues / Safety Issues / Sexual Health Issues / Social/Family Issues / Wellness and Lifestyle

National Horizon Scanning Centre: Health Promotion and Protection including Screening

NHS Choices Live Well

NICE Public Health Guidelines

Public Health in NHS Evidence - saerch content from the National Library for Public Health via the NHS Evidence search engine

Public Health Information Service (Stoke on Trent) - blog for the Public Health Information Service in Stoke on Trent; includes current awareness bulletins and information on accessing public health resources within Stoke on Trent

People in Public Health - Public Health database, by Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Metropolitan University, covering research on lay health workers and peer helpers.

Seasonal Flu Campaign - material and resources available for download

West Midlands Public Health Observatory Health Improvement Reports

World Health Map - this freely available Web site highlights data on infectious disease outbreak. The searchable world map links to information of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization).

Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO)

Faculty of Public Health

Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (RSPH) - independent health promotion organisation which promotes networking between health professionals and across health boundaries through it's publications and events

West Midlands Public Health Authority (WMPHO)

WHO: health promotion - information from World Health Organisations on international health promotion initiatives

You can browse a selection of our books for subjects:

• Health Promotion
• Public Health
• Community Health

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• Health Promotion
• Public Health
• Community Health