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Health Literacy: A Guide

WEBHealth literacy is the ability to understand health information and to use that information to make good decisions about your health and medical care. Health information can overwhelm even people with advanced literacy skills. About one third of the adult population in the United States has limited health literacy.

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Creating patienteducation materials

WEBSimply Put: A Guide for Creating Easy to Understand Materials. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July 2010. PDF. National Institute on Aging - Making your printed health materials senior-friendly. This tip sheet offers ideas for how to tailor health information so that it fits the needs of your older readers.

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Minority Health, Diversity and Health Disparities: A Guide

WEBThe mission of the NCCC is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.

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Data & statistics

WEBCounty Health Rankings and Roadmaps (CHR&R) A collaboration of CHR&R with Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) in one central location. Measures vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income, and teen …

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U.S. Health Data Sets

WEBCounty Health Rankings and Roadmaps (CHR&R) A collaboration of CHR&R with Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) in one central location. Measures vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income, and teen …

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Images in the Health Sciences: A Guide

WEBConsumer health database produced by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. It is a useful starting place for health sciences students when learning about a new topic.

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History of Medicine and Public Health: A Guide: Tulane and Local

WEBTulane University School of Medicine was founded in 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana, in 1847 the Medical College of Louisiana became the Department of Medicine of the University of Louisiana.it has been called Tulane University since 1884.. Medical College of New Orleans was granted a charter in 1835, however it failed to materialize.. …

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Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: A Guide

WEBPatient safety and health care quality journals and websites, local healthcare improvement groups, sample searches and databases for finding PSQI literature.

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Family and Community Medicine Research Guide

WEBFamily Medicine, established as a distinct discipline in 1969, is a broad medical specialty providing on-going , comprehensive health care for the individual and the family.

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Microbiology and Immunology for Medical Students: Course Guide

WEBIntroduction to Infectious Disease (IID). Tulane SOM Year-Two (T2) Curricula and the Immunology Block - the study of immunity and all of the phenomena connected with the defense mechanisms of the body.

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Library Guides: Data and Statistical Portal: Louisiana Data

WEBLouisiana Public Health Institute. (504) 301-9800. The Data Center. A trusted resource for data on Southeast Louisiana to include disaster recovery, regional economic analysis, workforce development, racial disparity indicators, blight reduction, affordable housing, and coastal population movements. City of New Orleans Health …

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Genetics and Inherited Diseases: A Guide

WEBGeneReviews® NCBI Bookshelf GeneReviews, an international point-of-care resource for busy clinicians, provides clinically relevant and medically actionable information for inherited conditions in a standardized journal-style format, covering diagnosis, management, and genetic counseling for patients and their families. Each chapter in …

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Clinical Decision Support

WEBA web-based clinical decision support system proven to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. Includes differential diagnosis. Differential Diagnosis of Common Complaints, ed.7 by Andrew B. Symons; Robert H. Seller. ISBN: 9780323512329.

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Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: A Guide

WEBHealth Expectations is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles and critical commentaries. It includes papers, which clarify concepts, develop theories, and critically analyze …

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Library Guides: Environmental Health Sciences: A Guide: Books

WEBISBN: 9780429553479. Publication Date: 2019-06-12. ProQuest (unlimited) Environmental Deterioration and Human Health: Natural and anthropogenic determinants by Abdul Malik (Editor); Elisabeth Grohmann (Editor); Rais Akhtar (Editor) ISBN: 9789400778894. Publication Date: 2013-12-27. SpringerLInk.

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Bioethics Information: A Guide: Bioethics Books and Websites

WEBISBN: 9780745688121. Publication Date: 2015-01-20. ProQuest (unlimited) Bioethics, Public Health and the Social Sciences for the Medical Professions by Amy E. Caruso Brown (Editor); Travis R. Hobart (Editor); Cynthia B. Morrow (Editor) ISBN: 9783030035433.

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AIDS and HIV: A Guide

WEBLouisiana Health Hub. The STD/HIV Program (SHP) coordinates a number of statewide and regional programs designed to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other STDs, to ensure the availability of quality medical and social services for HIV infected and affected individuals, and to track the impact of the epidemic in Louisiana.

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