Reference Information:

(Dictionaries; Funding Opportunities; Geographic Information Systems; Grant Writing; Newspapers; Reading, Writing and Publishing Research)
• Dictionaries:
  • Dictionary.com - online English dictionary, thesaurus, reference guide, and online translator.
  • A Dictionary of (Ecological) Epidemiology - Jonathan Swinton (1998-2002)
  • A Dictionary of Epidemiology - University of Oxford, UK (1994, 1995)
  • Epilex: An MS DOS European language lexicon - this free program contains translations of many epidemiological terms in Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Download the file in a directory, run it to extract all the files required, and then run Epilex.exe.
  • Glossary of Epidemiology Terms - CDC's Reproductive Health Information Source
  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus - provides a free, searchable on-line dictionary and thesaurus, and other reference tools and resources.
  
  
• Funding Opportunities:
  • Bureau of Health Professions - 1,400 grants awarded each year by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to health professions training programs and other nonprofit institutions involved in preparing the next generation of health care providers
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Procurement and Grants Office (PGO) - CDC grants and cooperative agreements
  • GrantsNet - tool for finding and exchanging information about U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and selected other Federal grant programs
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) - grants, research contracts, research training, peer review and the NIH Guide
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) - funds for research and education in science and engineering, through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements
  
  
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS):
  • Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-1994 - book of maps, text, tables and figures showing the geographic patterns of cancer death rates
  • Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) - GIS and mapping software, including ArcView and ArcInfo
  • GeoInformatica - international journal on advances of computer science for GIS systems
  • GIS Portal - GIS industry information
  • National Geodetic Survey - develops and maintains the National Spatial Reference System, a consistent national coordinate system that specifies latitude, longitude, height, scale, gravity, and orientation throughout the Nation, as well as how these values change with time
  
  
• Grant Writing:
  • EPA Grant-Writing Tutorial
  • GrantForms - electronic grant forms filling and grant applications management software (for NIH grant applications)
  • Grants and grant writing - from Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals
  • Grant-writing and Management Tools - page created by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health
  
  
• Newspapers:
  • News Link - links to >3,400 U.S. newspapers and 2,000 non-U.S. papers
  • El Nuevo Dia Interactivo
  • The San Juan Star
  
  
• Reading, Writing and Publishing Research:
  • Reading:
    • How to read a paper
  • Writing:
    • Citing Electronic References - HORIZON site
    • Electronic Reference Formats - American Psychological Association (APA) recommendations
    • Elements of Style
    • Index Medicus
    • Style Manuals - from the WHO library
      • Online documents - Proposed APA standard for referencing online documents in scientific publications.
  • Publishing:
    • Guidelines for Statistical Reporting in Articles for Medical Journals - Annals of Internal Medicine, 15 February 1988. 108:266-273.
    • Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences - links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 3,000 journals in the health and life sciences
    • Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) - controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles, for cataloging books and other holdings, and for searching MeSH-indexed databases, including MEDLINE
    • Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
      • Journals included - in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals Agreement as of January 1997

Health Information:

• Cancer:
  • Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-1994 - book of maps, text, tables and figures showing the geographic patterns of cancer death rates
  • Cancer Information for Health Professionals - links from the Puerto Rico Cancer Center Web-site
  • OncoLink - University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center - cancer-related information
  • Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program - a program from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that collects information on cancer incidence and survival data from several cancer registries
• Case Definitions for Public Health Surveillance - published in the MMWR: October 19, 1990 / 39(RR-13);1-43.
• Combined Health Information Database (CHID) - bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government
• Cultural Competence - resources for addressing diversity, including research-based articles, a bibliography, and links; Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice, American Institutes for Research
• Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) - resource lists and databases, and other food and nutrition related links; National Agricultural Library (NAL), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Health Information Gateway for the Caribbean (HIGC)
• Healthy People 2010
• Health Web - provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the Web in a variety of subjects including Public Health
• ICD-9 - International Classification of Diseases (9th Revision)
• ICD-10 - The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (tenth revision)
• LexJuris - Puerto Rico laws in the area of health
• Merck publications:
  • The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (17th edition)
  • The Merck Manual of Geriatrics
  • The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition
• Minority Health Resource Center - nationwide Service of the Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) - information and resource service on women's health issues
• Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals - information resources, training materials and other resources
• U.S. National Library of Medicine - Training Manuals are available for downloading in PDF and WordPerfect 6.1 formats.
  • Internet Grateful Med - Medline searches; includes links to AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE and TOXLINE (among others)
  • MEDLINEplus - health information for lay people
  • PubMed - searches in Medline and other databases

Journals:

• British Medical Journal (BMJ)
  • Search engine - issues since January 1994
  • Collected Resources - collections of BMJ articles by specialty and topic
• Emerging Infectious Diseases - published by CDC; full text of issues since 1995; also available in Spanish
• Epidemiology
• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
• Journal of Statistics Education
• Journals - links to over 700 full-text journals
• The Lancet
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) - published by CDC
  • Search engine - issues since 1982
• New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
  • Search engine - issues since 1990
• RESPYN: Revista Salud Pública y Nutrición - publicación universitaria trimestral, producida por la Coordinación General de Investigación de la Facultad de Salud Pública y Nutrición y la Dirección General de Sistemas e Informática de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México.
• Salud Pública de México - bi-monthly journal published by the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (National Institute of Public Health)

Statistics:

• American Statistical Association (ASA)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics Data - published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor
• Current Index to Statistics
• Health Statistics for Puerto Rico - compiled by the Medical Library, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
• UCLA Statistical Calculators
• Puerto Rico Vital Statistics / Estadísticas vitales de Puerto Rico - Department of Health publications
• Statistical Reference Datasets (StRD)- reference datasets with certified computational results that enable the objective evaluation of statistical software
• Statistics Canada - Canada's national statistical agency, with programs organized into three broad subject matter areas: demographic and social, socio-economic and economic
• Statistics on the Web - list of statistics resources on the Web
• StatLib - a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW
• U.S. Census Bureau
  • Population Estimates
• Virtual Library of Statistics

Software:

• Biostatistical software routines - biostatistical software programs, routines, papers and technical reports written by Paul Johnson
• EpiData - a comprehensive yet simple tool for documented dataentry
• Epidemiologic Software & Resources - links to software on the Web, and to Websites with epidemiologic training, lectures, and other information of interest
• Epi Info 6 - public domain microcomputer programs for word processing, data management and epidemiologic analysis
• Epilex: An MS DOS European language lexicon - this free program contains translations of many epidemiological terms in Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Download the file in a directory, run it to extract all the files required, and then run Epilex.exe.
• Epi Map - displays counts or rates on geographic maps supplied or drawn on the screen
• Epi Meta - public domain program to perform meta-analysis
• Free Public Health Software - written by Mark Myatt and others
• GrantForms - electronic grant forms filling and grant applications management software (for NIH grant applications)
• PEPI - computer programs for epidemiologic analyses
• PC Life Table Analysis System (PC LTAS) - an analytical software system for use in occupational cohort mortality studies developed at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Statistical software providers - links to over 100 statistical software providers

Puerto Rico:

• Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL)
• Census data (2000) - Census data for Puerto Rico from the U.S. Census Bureau
• Commonwealth of Puerto Rico / Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
• Country Health Profile / Perfil de salud del país - under the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) / Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS)
• Department of Health
• Department of Labor and Human Resources - under the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
  • Ocupational Safety and Health Office
• LexJuris - Puerto Rico laws in the area of health
• State and Local Government: Puerto Rico
• Universia.PR - el portal de los universitarios
• University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
  • Behavioral Sciences Research Institute
  • Graduate School of Public Health
  • Medical Library - compiles Health Statistics for Puerto Rico
  • Minority Biomedical Research Support Program (MBRS)
  • Puerto Rico Cancer Center
  • Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program (RCMI)
    • RCMI Clinical Research Center
  • Women & Health Center / Centro Mujer y Salud
• Vital Statistics / Estadísticas vitales - Department of Health publications

International Organizations:

• Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (México) - National Institute of Public Health (México)
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) / Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS)
• World Health Organization (WHO) / Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS)

USA Organizations:

• Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation (ABMRF)
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American College of Epidemiology
• American Heart Association (AHA)
  • American Stroke Association
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• American Statistical Association (ASA)
• Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• Epidemiology and Public Health Associations & Societies - from the MedNets Web-site
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
• National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organization (COSSMHO)
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• U.S. Census Bureau
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - also available in Spanish
    • Office of the Director
      • Associate Director for Minority Health
      • Associate Director for Science
      • Freedom of Information Act Office
      • Information Resources Management Office
      • Management Analysis and Services Office
      • National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO)
      • Office of Communication, Division of Media Relations
      • Office of Global Health
      • Office of Health and Safety (OhASIS)
      • Office of Women's Health
      • Technology Transfer Office
      • Washington D.C. Office
    • Epidemiology Program Office (EPO)
    • National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
    • National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
      • Office of Genetics and Disease Prevention (OGDP)
    • National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
    • National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP)
    • National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)
    • National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)
    • National Immunization Program (NIP)
    • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
    • Public Health Practice Program Office (PHPPO)

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA); federal agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

  • Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    • Office of the Director (OD)
    • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
      • Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program
    • National Eye Institute (NEI)
    • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
    • National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
    • National Institute on Aging (NIA)
    • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
    • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
    • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
    • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
    • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
    • National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
    • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
    • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
    • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
    • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
    • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
    • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
    • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
    • National Library of Medicine (NLM)
    • Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center (CC)
    • Center for Information Technology (CIT)
    • National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
    • National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
    • John E. Fogarty International Center (FIC)
    • Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
• U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)