Population Health Resources

Framing the Futures Taskforce Reports. "Offers resources to facilitate a far-reaching and forward-thinking education in public health".

Center for Disease Control. The Division of Population Health is charged with managing programs that provide cross-cutting, chronic disease and health promotion expertise.

These case studies are interactive exercises developed to teach epidemiologic principles and practices.

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the U.S. government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans. HHS provides essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.

"The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community".

An interactive map that will provide you with number and type of infections depending on the user's location.

A list of outbreaks and infections from Medline Plus.

From the CDC. "Each session focuses on key challenges related to a specific health topic, and explores cutting-edge scientific evidence and potential impact of different interventions."

From the CDC. Users can select a state or territory from an interactive map to view the health department of that area.

In conjunction with World Health Organization and the Health and Environment Linkages Initiatives (HELI).

List of competencies that students should be able to demonstrate proficiency in.

The "Council on Linkages works to further academic/practice collaboration to ensure a well-trained, competent workforce".

"This learning outcomes model is designed to facilitate the introduction of public health to undergraduate students in two- and four-year colleges and universities."

The competencies "address the AOA Seven Core Competencies and the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force’s Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework."

Public Health Collection serves as the online destination for identifying, developing, and sharing resources aimed at improving the public health content along the continuum of medical education.

Provides "continuing education and professional development courses on Public Information, Emergency Operations Coordination, and Field Epidemiology".

"CDC Learning Connection (CDC LC) helps you locate learning products and resources from across the public health community".

Focuses on the integration of Public Health and Primary Care between Duke University, the CDC, and the deBeaumont Foundation. "It is a stepping stone to achieve population health improvement and reduced health care costs."

"OCW offers open materials and images from more than a hundred courses developed by the faculty of JHSPH, the world’s foremost institution of public health education and research".

"This guide aims to help pediatric program directors include population-based educational activities in their residency curricula to enhance clinical practice and meet the educational goals of residency training (e.g., ACGME competencies)" (ASTHO Supported PCPH Collaborative, 2014).

A virtual textbook on Public Health concepts for clinicians. "This Primer is tailored for medical students, students of other healthcare professions and all health professionals interested in improving their knowledge."

This website provides a number of selected governmental (federal government agencies) and non-governmental resources (think tanks, consulting firms, foundations, and associations) as well as institutional publications.

A virtual text book from the CDC.

Contains many different modules such as Prevention Population Health Curriculum framework, the Case-Based Series in Population Orientated Prevention, and Population Health Modules.

The Robert Graham Center provides policy studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care. The Center's goal is to "improve individual and population health by enhancing the delivery of primary care" (The Robert Graham Center). The website has a number of data and mapping visualization tools available for information interpretation as well as publications and research to enhance point of care and study.

The UDS Mapper allows users to access "estimates of the collective service area of these health centers by ZCTA, including the ratio of HCP grantee and look-alike patients reported in the Uniform Data System (UDS) to the target population, the change in the number of those reported patients over time, and an estimate of those in the target population that remain unserved by HCP grantees and look-alikes reporting data to the UDS". It is not intended to cover all bases, so it is "meant to be only one of many important resources available for exploring the extent of health centers", as stated on their website.

Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute is through the McCourt School of Public Policy. The Institute is made up of a "multidisciplinary group of faculty and staff dedicated to conducting research on key issues in health policy and health services research". Some affiliated projects include the Health Insurance Reforms and the Center for Children and Families.