Indiana’s Public Health Information Network
The goal of Indiana’s Public Health Information Network is to provide public health workers throughout the State the information resources and services they need to realize the best results of their work in the interest of health of Indiana’s citizens and in meeting the goals of Healthy People 2010.
Indiana Resources
- Indiana HealthConnect (database of local health services)
- SHINE--Statewide HIV/AIDS Information NEtwork
- Government
- Professional Organizations
- Schools
- Department of Public Health (Indiana University School of Medicine)
- School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)
- School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University-Bloomington (IUB)
Education & Training
- Community Health Nursing Case Study Scenarios
- CDC Public Health Training Network (includes distance learning courses, webcasts, and educational opportunities)
- Office of Public Health Practice (OPHP)
Federal Government
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Environmental Health and Toxicology (Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
International Organizations
Literature
- CDC Public Health Image Library
- Free Public Health Databases (from UMass)
- Free Public Health Journals (from UMass)
- Grey Literature
- Healthy People 2010
- Health Information for the Public (MedlinePlus)
- PubMed
- PubMed Special Queries (includes health service research, health disparities, health literacy)
- Public Health Core Competencies
- TOXNET
Professional Organizations
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control & Epidemiology (APIC)
- Association of State and Territorial Health Organizations (ASTHO)
- Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
- Public Health Foundation
Statistics & Data Sets
- America’s Health Rankings—State Snapshot (from United Health Foundation)
- CDC Wonder
Searchable compilation of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports, guidelines, and health data for disease and demographic groups. Includes surveillance data, Healthy People 2010, MMWR, and other CDC publications. - Fast Stats (from the National Center for Health Statistics)
- Health Services/Sciences Research (HSSR)
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup" is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). HCUP databases bring together the data collection efforts of State data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the Federal government to create a national information resource of patient-level health care data (HCUP Partners). HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States, with all-payer, encounter-level information beginning in 1988. These databases enable research on a broad range of health policy issues, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care programs, and outcomes of treatments at the national, state, and local market levels. - Measuring Health Quality (from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (ARHQ)). Includes the following reports: national healthcare Quality Report, National Healthcare Disparities Report, AHRQ Quality Indicators, Ambulatory Care: Clinical Performance Measures, Additional Tools and Resources.
- PAHO Health Data
- State Health Facts (from the Kaiser Family Foundation)
- WHO Data and Statistics
