|
![](https://webharvest.gov/peth04/20041101185110im_/http://www.cdc.gov/navimages/spacer.gif) |
![](https://webharvest.gov/peth04/20041101185110im_/http://www.cdc.gov/images/spacer.gif)
Links to Related Pages
On this page
![](https://webharvest.gov/peth04/20041101185110im_/http://www.cdc.gov/images/spacer.gif)
Related Government Health Links
Links to non-Federal organizations found at this site are
provided solely as a service to our users. These links do not constitute an
endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the Federal
Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the
content of the individual organization Web pages found at these links.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS)
- CDC/ATSDR Cancer Cluster Public
Inquiry Triage System
The cancer cluster Web site serves the general public and public health professionals.
The site provides information about cancer clusters, answers to frequently asked
questions, and includes contact information to report concerns or obtain more
information. It also provides information on cancer cluster resources, such as
publications; and information on investigations.
- Chronic Disease
Prevention Database: Cancer section
This database focuses on breast, cervical, skin, and
colorectal cancer. It provides bibliographic citations and
abstracts of various types of materials including journal
articles, monographs, book chapters, reports, curricular
materials, fact sheets, and proceedings.
- National Center For
Health Statistics
- Office of Minority Health
- Office
of Genomics and Disease Prevention (OGDP)
OGDP provides information about human genetic discoveries and how
they can be used to improve health and prevent disease
- Preventing Chronic Disease
Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal established
to provide a forum for public health researchers and practitioners to share study
results and practical experience. The mission of the journal is to address the
interface between applied prevention research and public health practice in chronic
disease.
- Public Health Emergency
Preparedness and Response
- Public
Health Training Network
The Public Health Training Network (PHTN) is a distance learning
system that uses a variety of instructional media to meet the
training needs of the public health workforce nationwide.
- Tobacco
Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS)
- Department of Defense
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
- Federal
Register
- FEDSTATS
More than 70 agencies in the United States federal government produce
statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council
on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to
the full range of statistics and information produced by these
agencies for public use.
- Fedworld
- Institutes
of Medicine (IOM)
-
Fulfilling the Promise of Cancer Prevention and Early Detection
This IOM Report reviews the evidence that cancer incidence rates can be dramatically
reduced and outlines a national strategy to realize the promise of cancer prevention
and early detection.
- National
Cancer Policy Board
The National Cancer Policy Board was established in 1997 at the
Institute of Medicine and National Research Council to address
broad policy issues that affect cancer in the United States and to
recommend ways to advance the Nation's effort against cancer. The
board, consisting of 21 members drawn from outside the federal
government, includes health care consumers, providers, and
researchers in a variety of disciplines in the sciences and
humanities.
- Unequal
Treatment: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
This IOM report examines the extent of racial and ethnic
differences in the quality of health care received by patients,
not attributable to known factors such as access to care, ability
to pay, or insurance coverage.
- Medicare
Benefits and Health Information
- MEDLINEplus
MEDLINEplus directs you to information that may help answer
your health questions. It includes authoritative information from the
National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
and other government, non-profit and health-related organizations.
MEDLINEplus gives you easy access to the medical research
literature, and provides a database of drug information and an
illustrated medical encyclopedia.
- National Cancer Institute
-
Fiscal Year 2003 Annual Fact Book (PDF-269K)*
- Cancer
Centers Program
E-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and web sites of more than 50
sanctioned NCI Cancer Centers across the country.
- NCI's Cancer Information
- CancerInfoNet.org
- Cancer
Information Service
- Cancer Progress Report 2003 Update
- Cancer Research
Portfolio
A comprehensive database of all NCI-supported research.
-
Clinical Trials Education Series (CTES)
The CTES is a complete collection of Free resources created to educate cancer
patients, health care professionals, advocates, and the general public about cancer
clinical trials.
- Geographic Information Systems
- Physician Data Query
A comprehensive database for information about cancer treatment, screening,
prevention, genetics, and supportive care, plus clinical trials.
- National Genome
Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute was originally
established in 1989 as the National Center for Human Genome Research.
Its mission is to head the Human
Genome Project for the National
Institutes of Health.
-
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Initiatives
The mission of the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS),
one of 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health,
is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental
causes by understanding each of these elements and how they interrelate.
The NIEHS achieves its mission through multidisciplinary biomedical research programs,
prevention and intervention efforts, and communication strategies that
encompass training, education, technology transfer, and community
outreach.
- State Departments of
Health
- Task Force on Community Preventive Services
- U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS)
| Contents |
Links to non-Federal organizations found at this site are
provided solely as a service to our users. These links do not constitute an
endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the Federal
Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the
content of the individual organization Web pages found at these links.
|
![](https://webharvest.gov/peth04/20041101185110im_/http://www.cdc.gov/navimages/spacer.gif) |