Community Health Web Sites

FAMILY ASSESSMENT TOOLS:http://familyhistory.hhs.gov/

Web-Based Family Health History ToolMy Family Health Portrait is a web-based tool designed to help families gather and share their health information. The tool, released as part of the U.S. Surgeon General's Family Health Initiative, organizes information into a printout that an individual can use, in partnership with a health professional, to determine whether he or she is at increased risk for six common diseases with a known genetic contribution, and for other conditions that may run in families. Users can highlight certain diseases such as heart disease of diabetes, and produce personalized diagrams or charts for each family member that can then be used to develop individualized diagnosis, treatment, and prevention plans. The tool is intended for use by individuals, families, and health professionals in understanding the importance of collecting a family health history and in making the process of gathering the information easier and more efficient. The tool is available in both English and Spanish.

DIASTER MANAGEMENT sites:

CDC Emergency preparedness: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/index.asp

Red Cross: http://www.redcros.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_319_,00.html

Toxic substance & disease registry: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/2p-emergency-response.html

CBS news disaster links: http://www.disasterlinks.net/

Managing Hurricane Recovery for Healthy and Affordable Communities
The Alliance for Healthy Homes has written this Guide for organizations and agencies working with people affected by recent hurricanes. While the Guide covers may issues vital to families and individuals struggling to cope with the loss of jobs, homes, and other personal property and assests, this Guide focuses on the serious environmental health hazards caused by hurricanes-especially ones related to housing.
The Guide is divided into three parts:
Part I provides basic information on the array of public benefits that are available to hurricane survivors.
Part II addresses several short- and medium-term recovery issues related to the preservation and repair of housing with an emphasis on health and safety issues related to returning to flood-affected areas and properties.
Part III frames larger, longer-term questions about health and affordability that are intertwined with recovery and rebulding.
http://www.ohnurses.org/associations/2641/files/hurricane_recovery_guide.pd

EPIDEMIOLOGY Aritcles web site: http://www.who.int/wer/en/

Hopefully Helpful Community Health Web Resources &

Cleveland Metropolitan Region sites
http://www.apha.org/legislative/legislative/index.htm#priority
http://www.apha.org/legislative/

ENACT The Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments, coordinated by the Prevention Institute, developed the Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT) to offer communities ways to create positive change in seven food and activity environments. Each ENACT strategy models policies and programs, hands-on tools, articles and other publications, and resources. For information visit: http://www.preventioninstitute.org/sa/enact/enact/map.htm.

Cleveland Health Department http://www.clevelandhealth.org/
Especially interesting is the RARE site; an extensive community assessment project concerning HIV in the Hispanic community near West 25th and Clark:
http://www.clevelandhealth.org/ActiveServerPages/Newsletter/ProjectReports/RareProjectReport.asp

Cuyahoga County Bd. of Health http://www.ccbh.net/singles/aboutccbh.html (in Parma)

Summit County Health Dept. http://www.schd.org/ (in Cuyahoga Falls)

Ohio Department of Health http://www.odh.state.oh.us/

Many Resources in Greater Cleveland: http://www.helpmegrow.org/familyroom/moneycontacts.htm

Help Me Grow Cuyahoga County from juvenile courts to family service centers, WIC, BCMH etc, etc, etc!

MORE great local resources http://www.care-source.com/CommunityResources.asp?County=Cuyahoga

Akron City Health Department http://www.ci.akron.oh.us/Health04/guide.htm (Akron)

WIC @ ODH: www.odh.ohio.gov/odhPrograms/ns/wicn/wic1.aspx

Cuyahoga County WIC http://www.metrohealth.org/Clinical/CCH/wic.asp (Metro)

Lorain County Health Department http://www.loraincountyhealth.com/about/ (Lorain)

SOME OTHER SITES Helpful for papers/projects:

Keeping Safe on the Streets
Women's Violence Prevention Project Alliance (WVPPA) of Boston published Keeping Safe on the Streets, a guide for providers working with homeless women living on the streets. The publication assists providers to help clients increase their safety before, during, and after acts of violence. The guide was written with the support of Alliance members representing the fields of domestic violence, hospitals, law enforcement, addiction treatment, city and state government, and social services. The guide outlines how WVPPA Street Outreach Workers identify battered and addicted women living on the streets and how they assist them to avoid and respond to violence and to pursue treatment. The guide is available at www.shattuckshelter.org.

http://www.cdc.gov/ CDC

www.odh.ohio.gov/ASSETS/
046B9B8112104A73A2ADFB940857E1E4/wicclinicdir.PDF

http://nccam.nih.gov/

http://www.ahrq.gov/