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Links to information and resources on public health, epidemiology and statistics.
Updated on Sep 15, 09
Created on Apr 28, 09
Category: Health & Wellness
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Natalie Lafferty's List: Public Health & Statistics
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May 28, 09
England's central, authoritative source of health and social care information.
Acting as a hub for high quality, national, comparative data for secondary uses, we deliver information for local decision makers to improve the quality and efficiency of frontline care -
May 28, 09
Find data on indicators of the nation's health, such as health inequalities, morbidity rates, smoking drinking and drug use, and abortion statistics.
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May 28, 09
The statistics branches within all government departments, together with the Office for National Statistics, form the Government Statistical Service. Statistics are also provided to government by the Information Centre for health and social care. Statistics are used to inform debate, decision making and research both within government and by the wider community.
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May 28, 09
WHOSIS, the WHO Statistical Information System, is an interactive database bringing together core health statistics for the 193 WHO Member States. It comprises more than 100 indicators, which can be accessed by way of a quick search, by major categories, or through user-defined tables. The data can be further filtered, tabulated, charted and downloaded.
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May 28, 09
HFA-DB is a central database of independent, comparable and up-to-date basic health statistics. It has been a key source of information on health in the European Region since WHO/Europe launched it in the mid-1980s. It contains time series from 1970.
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May 14, 09
Ted talk on HIV by Hans Rosling - using data from UNAIDS and WHO into understandable Gapminder bubbles.
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May 25, 09
Dr Larry Brilliant TED talk on pandemics and how we can take steps to contain them.
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May 30, 09
No surprise, these days more and more doctors are searching online for medical information. What is surprising, however, is that in a recent study, nearly 50% of physicians indicated that they use Wikipedia—the open-access encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit articles—as their source for medical information.
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The fact that anyone can anonymously edit the content is the most obvious problem with the concept. For example, this article by Peter Rost, MD in BrandweekNRX provides details of how representatives from the pharmaceutical companies Abbott and AstraZeneca removed negative information about the side effects of their drugs from the site:
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Jun 01, 09
This is an on-line course on medical statistics put together at the University of Sheffield. It uses SPSS to help understand some of the basic concepts of this discipline.
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Jun 03, 09
Duke University page with links to java applets which can be used in statistics content/resources
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Jun 03, 09
Links to guidelines and consensus statements regarding the conduction and reporting of clinical research studies
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Jun 03, 09
Innovations in curriculum design: A multi-disciplinary approach to teaching statistics to undergraduate medical students
Freeman, Collier, Staniforth and Smith - University of Sheffield -
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