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Sources for all disciplines charged with ensuring the health of whole populations.

Resources

 

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National Public Health Week YouTube channel

Gathering Credible Data - recorded video overview of guiding principles for collecting evaluation data, considerations when choosing data collection methods and information on ensuring cultrual responsiveness when collecting data.

U Alabama SOPH YouTube "channel"

Public Health Practice Grand Rounds Webcast Archives from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

H1N1 Rap and other finalists of DHHS' Swine & seasonal flu prevention video contest (You Tube)

Insights  Colorado Health Foundation

CDC Office of Media Relations webcasts 

Wellcome Film - 20th century healthcare in film--some 200 of them freely available for use if you give credit.

Kick Butts - annual anti-smoking PSA contest

Embrace life (pro-seat-belt, a little schmaltzy, but...)

Immunization Video Collection from NACCHO cover influenza, pertussis, adolescent immunization, personal stories about vaccine-preventable diseases.

E-Books

AI Ethics

An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions. Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ongoing debate. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible synthesis of these issues.

Introduction to Global Health

With a unique emphasis on possible solutions to world health problems, this book addresses all the key issues of global health at a level basic enough that students from a variety of majors can understand the material.

Introduction to Public Health

A thorough, accessible overview of the expanding field of public health for students new to its concepts and actors. Written in engaging, nontechnical language, this best-selling text explains in clear terms the multi-disciplinary strategies and methods used for measuring, assessing, and promoting public health.

Leadership for Public Health

Today's rapidly evolving public health arena urgently needs effective leaders. In fact, this need is so pressing that the major public health associations have come together to call for a new emphasis on leadership development in the public health workforce. Leadership for Public Health: Theory and Practice aims to answer this call. The book is based on the premise that skilled public health leaders consider people their most valuable resource and are prepared to lead those people through a wide variety of situations. Acknowledging that effective leadership cannot rely on a one-size-fits-all approach, the authors challenge readers to try out a number of leadership models and theories, determine which are the best fit for their public health practice, and apply the key principles in their day-to-day work.

Medical and Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Illness and Disability

Writing for health care workers, Falvo (rehabilitation psychology and counseling, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) updates medical material and continues to follow the medical model for this edition by grouping chronic illness and disability together and describing professional interventions.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Paperback edition of Edward Tufte's classic book on statistical charts, graphs, and tables, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. "Best 100 books of the 20th Century." Amazon.com.

Visualize This

Practical data design tips from a data visualization expert of the modern age Data doesn't decrease; it is ever-increasing and can be overwhelming to organize in a way that makes sense to its intended audience. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could actually visualize data in such a way that we could maximize its potential and tell a story in a clear, concise manner? Thanks to the creative genius of Nathan Yau, we can. With this full-color book, data visualization guru and author Nathan Yau uses step-by-step tutorials to show you how to visualize and tell stories with data.

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