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PUBLIC HEALTH PLANNING

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King County Public Health Operational Master Plan (PHOMP)
The PHOMP will assure that funding challenges that have and will continue to face Public Health for the foreseeable future can be met strategically and rationally.

CDC: Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006 - 2015
Community Tool Box
Created and maintained by the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas, the Community Tool Box provides over 7,000 pages of practical information to support work in promoting community health and development.
IOM Public Health and Prevention
The Institute of Medicine’s link to projects, events, and reports on public health and prevention, including “The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century” and “Who Will Keep the Public Healthy: Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century.”
MAPP: Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships
MAPP is a community-wide strategic planning and performance improvement tool driven by four assessments to improve the way the local public health system conducts community health planning and programming. Registration is required.
National Network of Public Health Institutes
Promotes innovation and multi-sector activities that result in measurable improvements of public health structures, systems and outcomes.
Public Health Improvement Partnership
The Public Health Improvement Plan Partnership works to guide the development of Washington’s public health system, based on a shared vision of the public health system we would like to bring about.
Public Health Infrastructure Resource Center
Designed to meet the pressing needs and interests of states, communities, and the public in assessing and building their infrastructures and serving as a gateway to information and resources to build capacity of public health systems.
Public Health - Seattle and King County Public Health Partners and Coalitions
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Turning Point
Turning Point’s mission is “to transform and strengthen the public health system in the United States to make the system more effective, more community-based, and more collaborative.”

PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY

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King County Board of Health (BOH)
The functions of the King County Board of Health are to set county-wide public health policy, enact and enforce local public health regulations, and carry out other duties of local boards of health specified in state law.

Assessing the Potential of National Strategies for Electronic Health Records for Population Health Monitoring and Research
KaiserEDU
KaiserEDU is designed to provide students, faculty and others interested in learning about health policy easy access to the latest data, research, analysis, and developments in health policy. Also see Kaiser’s SmartLinks Topic Searches, “pre-queried” searches on health policy topics in several different Internet search engines.
National Health Policy Training Alliance for Communities of Color
Created to make clear the link between efforts to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities and the role of health policymaking, as well as to ensure that community leaders have the tools, information, and resources they need to address these issues.
Office of Human Services Policy Publications
HSP focuses on welfare, poverty, service delivery issues, data for research, policies affecting children, youth, and families, and economic matters affecting the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Re-Aim.org
A systematic way for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to evaluate health behavior interventions. It can be used to estimate the potential impact of interventions on public health.

PREVENTION

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Public Health Centers
Public Health services are provided at Public Health Centers located throughout Seattle and King County. Services range from basic health care, HIV and TB screening, WIC services, health insurance, teen health, travel immunizations, and more.

Guide to Community Preventive Services
Summary of what is known about the effectiveness, economic efficiency, and feasibility of interventions to promote community health and prevent disease.
Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center
Contains publications, research tools, best practice resources, and training/educational links on injury prevention research and treatment.
Partnership for Prevention
Building evidence of sound disease prevention and health promotion policies and practices and advocating their adoption by public and private sectors.
Prevention Communication Research Database
A project of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), this database is a searchable collection of audience research conducted or sponsored by HHS agencies.
Prevention Institute
This non-profit national center provides tools, publications, and other resources on topics such as violence prevention, health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, children and youth, unintentional injury and traffic safety, gender, environment and health, and mental health.
SafetyLit
SafetyLit provides free weekly abstracts of English language reports from researchers in several disciplines relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm.

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