Community Health: On the Web

Roadmap that addresses the non-clinical needs of patients.

Collaborating to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health – through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats.

United States government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.

Accompanying web site to your textbook. Online resources support classroom education.

Aims to prevent disease, disability, and death caused by a wide range of infectious diseases. We focus on diseases that have been around for many years, emerging diseases (those that are new or just recently identified), and zoonotic diseases (those spread from animals to people).

An international public health agency with over 100 years of experience working to improve health and living standards of the people of the Americas.

WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.