Public health management of disasters: the pocket guide

Guide from the American Public Health Association - APHA that provides information about public health interventions in the days immediately preceding and following emergencies. It is divided in six chapters: preparation, strategies, diseases, mental health, food safety and data collection.

Public Health

Twitter from the American Public Health Association which has general news on public health.

American jornal of public health

The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) is dedicated to original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health. It contains texts in pdf.

American Public Health Association - APHA

APHA aims to protect all Americans and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States, and represents a broad array of health professionals and others who care about their own health and the health of their communities.

Is economic policy health policy?

This economic divide has not gone unnoticed by public health researchers, who have produced a substantial literature documenting and discussing the links between increasing economic inequality and poorer health. Technically, it is possible to separate individual-and community level effects, but are the determinants really separate? For example, social and economic policies that differentially distribute and reward high-tech and low-skilled labor will differentially attract populations that vary by level of individual income and wealth.

Eliminating health disparities

Present an overview of the underlying mechanisms by which the interaction of social and physical environments leads to health disparities. Address how social and physical environmental agents contribute to disparities in health among the U.S. population. Identify current approaches to reduce these disparities.