Urban Health Resources

Websites

American College of Physicians position paper Inner City Health Care
In this position paper, the American College of Physicians seeks to highlight directions and innovations in public policy for inner-city health care with renewed determination that health care problems in the United States must be solved, especially in cities, where they are most extreme.

Public Health
Provides links to information on the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population.

Environmental Health, Occupational Health, and Toxicology
Supported by the National Library of Medicine, we provide access to websites reviewed by librarians with a specialization in the area of environmental health and toxicology. Topics include environmental health, occupational health, toxicology, and online journals.

Healthy People 2010
From U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service. Healthy People 2010 provides a vision for improved health for all Americans. Through a national process, people from across the country helped define, and are now pursuing, a prevention agenda for the Nation.

International Society for Urban Health
The International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) is an association of researchers, scholars, and professionals from various disciplines and areas of the world who study the health effects of urban environments and urbanization.