Top 10 Risks to Human Health are:

• underweight
• unsafe sex
• high blood pressure
• tobacco
• alcohol
• unsafe water and sanitation
• cholesterol
• indoor smoke from solid fuels
• iron deficiency
• overweight

Registration and other conference information can be found on this site. 

The review covers the four main areas of the England White Paper: cancer, coronary heart disease & stroke, accidents and mental health, with other topics to com. Search strategies are included for you to duplicate. Available in Word, PDF and HTML. 

Page 6 gives a very good model titled, Generic Logic Model for Health Promotion, that includes activities, outputs, impacts/effects, aims, mechanisms, outcomes, and consequences. (I love a good model; seeing a model makes information so much clearer).

In addition to this Website, Dr. Bandrinath also mentioned the follow articles which are useful for evaluating health promotion programs:

Story M, Lytle LA, Birnbaum AS, Perry CL. Peer-led, school-based nutrition education for young adolescents: feasibility and process evaluation of the TEENS study. J Sch Health 2002 Mar;72(3):121-7

Sahota P, Rudolf MC, Dixey R, Hill AJ, Barth JH, Cade J. Evaluation of implementation and effect of primary school based intervention to reduce risk factors for obesity. BMJ 2001 Nov 3;323(7320):1027-9

Cheadle A, Psaty BM, Diehr P, Koepsell T, Wagner E, Curry S, Kristal A. Evaluating community-based nutrition programs: comparing grocery store and individual-level survey measures of program impact. Prev Med 1995 Jan;24(1):71-9

Source: Dr.P.Badrinath M.D, M.Phil, (Epid) PhD (Cantab) DFPHM, MPH (Distinc), Suffolk Public Health Network & University of Cambridge.

The Indian Health Service, in collaboration with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), has unveiled a new Consumer Health Information page on its Web site. This page provides a streamlined starting point for patients and others searching for quality health and medical information.

It features the new "Easy-to-Read Health and Medical Information" collection of Web sites, many of which rely heavily on graphics to present concepts and can be printed and used as handouts.  Developed by staff of the NN/LM's Pacific Northwest Regional office, the Easy-to-Read sites focus on subjects suggested by nurses who serve American Indian and Native Alaskan populations.

The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a report entitled Trends and Indicators in the Changing Health Care Marketplace 2002, as part of their "Changing Health Care Marketplace Project."  The report is presented as a chartbook that "provides information on key trends in the health care marketplace including health spending, the structure of the health care marketplace, and health plan and provider relationships."  You may find it a good resource to describe a portion of the environment in the US that affects the work some of us do.

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From the Press Release: The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), in collaboration with other Agencies (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Food and Drug Administration) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is pleased to announce the availability of the National Nutrition Summit website at http://www.nns.nih.gov. The website provides a wealth of information on the National Nutrition Summit held on May 30 and 31, 2000 in Washington, D.C. as well as the 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health.

The 2000 National Nutrition Summit provided an opportunity to highlight accomplishments in the areas of food, nutrition, and health since the landmark 1969 White House Conference; to identify continuing challenges and emerging opportunities for the nation in these areas; and to focus on nutrition and lifestyle issues across the lifespan, particularly those related to the nation's epidemic of overweight and obesity.

"The Summit allowed all segments of society with a commitment to improving nutrition in the US to work together in developing and implementing strategies to meet the continuing and emerging nutrition and physical activity needs of our nation."  Said Dr. Paul Coates, Director of the ODS and co-chair of the 2000 National Nutrition Summit steering committee.

The National Nutrition Summit website provides access to:

*    Speeches, video casts, and other events that occurred during the groundbreaking National Nutrition Summit.

*    Recommendations for research and public health initiatives generated during the National Nutrition Summit.

*    Journal articles and program initiatives resulting from information presented at the National Nutrition Summit.

*    For the first time ever, an electronic version of the full report and executive summary of the 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health.

"The National Nutrition Summit provided an opportunity to revisit the White House Conference of 1969 and begin to understand how to address the chronic disease issues related to poor nutrition and physical inactivity that confront us today.  The collaborations and action items that this meeting produced will help guide programs and policies that will address such pervasive problems like obesity." said Dr. William Dietz, Director of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a member of the National Nutrition Summit
steering committee.

"Dr. Jean Mayer, the Director of the first White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health, viewed nutrition not only as a science, but as an agenda for solving problems. As his assistant at that conference, I think that he would be pleased by the progress America has made in solving many nutrition problems. But he would be anxious to continue research and education to attack the problems of overweight and obesity and would applaud the government-wide efforts that are now being put into place and are documented on the website." --Johanna Dwyer, DScRD Assistant Administrator for Human Nutrition, Agricultural Research Service, USDA.

I liked the time-line, myself.

Many members of this listserve are involved with strengthening readiness for emergencies.  You may be interested, then, in knowing that the preview edition of the bioterrorism competencies for public health workers is now available, and can be downloaded from the Columbia University School of Nursing web site.

The site says, "These competencies build on the core emergency preparedness competencies developed by the Center for Health Policy in 2000 and have been used by the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness and other preparedness centers in their training activities."

Source: Kristine Gebbie, SON, Columbia University

Lists commercial, education, government, and non-profit resources.

Source: James Phillips, MLS, Librarian, South Texas Community College

Guidelines for drug-related literature searches. The searched are intended to determine drug safety in
clinical trials.

The Fall/Winter Issue of Northwest Public Health is live online at http://nwcphp.org/nph/  This issue addresses Policy, Law, and the Public's Health.

Source: Kathy Kimsey, WSPHO

The October Issue of CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal is online; this entire issue is dedicated to Anthrax.

Source: Kathy Kimsey, WSPHO

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the availability of the 2002 edition of the National Library of Medicine Classification. Beginning with 2002 the NLM Classification ( www.nlm.nih.gov/class ) is published annually in electronic form only. Publication of printed
editions ceased with the 5th revised edition, 1999.

The Index to the NLM Classification consists primarily of MeSH concepts used in cataloging. It includes concepts first appearing in the latest edition of MeSH and other older concepts as warranted by literature
cataloged. Schedule numbers are added or revised to reflect changes in the biomedical and related sciences.

The new online environment offers many advantages over print, including hyperlinks between terms and the MeSH Browser and class numbers; however,
the biggest improvement will be in NLM's ability to keep the Classification current with changes in MeSH.

Source: Christa F.B. Hoffmann, Head, Cataloging Section, National Library of Medicine

Why, you ask would a public health practitioner be interested in a classification scheme. This particular classification scheme is used in PubMed to retrieve useful articles and for subject headings for books cataloged by many academic libraries. It can be a very useful reference tool since it tells you when the term came to be used and gives a scope note that is actually a definition.

You can also use the MeSH browser when you are searching to retrieve articles.

Posted November 5, 2002 3:35