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Featured Websites
How's Your Health, Greater Milwaukee?
Go to
www.howsyourhealth.com
for a free health risk assessment March 15 - April 30. You can
print the report online and take it to your doctor!
Check it out!
On January 7, 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention unveiled a sleek new version of its website --
http://www.cdc.gov -- with new design, improved and more comprehensive
Health Topics A-Z and improved search engine.
Impact: Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Serives, Inc.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Alive! Online
Includes news and events surrounding local and national
health issues. Scroll to the bottom of the page for a weekly
health calendar.
Health Counts in Wisconsin: Behavioral Risk Factors, 2002
contains valuable survey data for Wisconsin, and is available
online at
dhfs.wisconsin.gov
on the Department of Health and Family Services website.
Two congressionally mandated reports - The National Healthcare
Quality Report and The National Healthcare Disparities Report -
are now available online at
www.qualitytools.ahrq.gov.
The reports, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), represent the first
comprehensive effort to measure the quality of healthcare in America
and the differences in access to healthcare services for priority
populations. The data covers seven clinical conditions - cancer,
diabetes, end-stage renal disease, heart disease, HIV and AIDS, mental
health, and respiratory disease - as well as maternal and child health,
nursing home and home health care, and patient safety.
Healthiest Wisconsin 2010: A Partnership Plan to Improve the Health
of the Public, is the Wisconsin state health plan for the decade
2000-2010. The following websites provide important information about
this dynamic and comprehensive plan to transform Wisconsin's public
health system for the 21st century:
www.dhfs.state.wi.us
Contains an electronic copy of the July 2003 special supplemental report
to the state public health plan: Engaging and Sustaining Selected
Community Stakeholders in the Transformation of Wisconsin's Public
Health System.
www.dhfs.state.wi.us
Contains the electronic copies of the Implementation Plans for the
sixteen health and system (infrastructure) priorities identified in
Healthiest Wisconsin 2010. These richly detailed documents were
developed by Wisconsin's public health system partners. Each of the
sixteen priorities includes long-term outcome objectives with
accompanying logic models and templates for each objective. There
are approximately 60 objectives for the sixteen priorities.
www.dhfs.state.wi.us
Contains information about the Wisconsin Turning Point Initiative,
Wisconsin's policy process to transform Wisconsin's public health system
for the 21st century.
The Annual Minority Health Conference was launched by the Minority
Student Caucus of UNC in 1977 and has been conducted nearly every year
since then. Major objectives are to highlight health issues of concern
to people of color. Information about past and upcoming conferences can
be viewed at the UNC School of Public Health website:
www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/
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