HPIC WEBSITE NEWS

14th December 1998  -  Issue  10

HPiC Website News aims to keep readers up to date with recently launched
internet websites in the field of health promotion. The newsletter contains
health information and campaign sites, sites of relevant organisations, and
sites which are recommended as good examples of design for the internet. The
newsletter is compiled every two weeks. Additionally if you require
bibliographic references to health promotion publications, resources or
articles the HealthPromis database may be accessed free of charge via
http://healthpromis.hea.org.uk. Please email comments or suggestions of
sites for inclusion to [log in to unmask] HPiC is the Health
Promotion Information Centre at the Health Education Authority, London, UK.
For more information about the HEA please visit our website at
http://www.hea.org.uk .  HPiC Website News would like to wish readers a
happy new year, and inform you that the next issue will be published on
January 11th, 1999.


Accidents and Safety

Author: Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
Title:  Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
URL:    http://www.rospa.co.uk
Country of Origin: England

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is a registered charity
which provides information, advice, resources and training. RoSPA also aims
to campaign for change, influence opinion, educate and inform on safety
issues. This website provides information about the work of the charity and
facts, figures, and articles relating to safety.


Community Health

Author: Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development, University
of Kansas
Title:  Community Tool Box
URL:    http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/
Country of Origin: United States of America

The Community Tool Box offers step-by-step guidance for improving community
health and development. The website features a vast collection of pages of
skill-building information on over 100 community topics. Examples include
first-person stories, checklists, transparency-ready summaries, resources,
and links.


Conferences

Author: Africa Telehealth Project
Title:  The Role of Low-Cost Technology for Improved Access to Public Health
Care Programs Throughout Africa Conference
URL:    http://www.projectscope.org/atp
Country of Origin: United States of America / Africa

The Africa Telehealth Project's Nairobi Conference is to be held February
19-21, 1999.  The Africa TeleHealth Project aims to provide a staged
introduction of telehealth programs to the African market focused on
geographic coverage and service issues. This website gives information about
the conference.


Electronic Journals

Author: Funded by the UK's eLib Programme
Title:  Sociological Research Online
URL:    http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/
Country of Origin: England

Sociological Research Online is a quarterly e-journal, which publishes
applied sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological
discussions which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual
topics and debates.


Evidence Based Health

Author: The Library of The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title:  Evidence Based Surgery
URL:    http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library/ebs.htm
Country of Origin: England

These web pages list a number of resources which are intended to help
surgeons practise evidence based surgery. Some of these resources include
journal titles, links to free medical databases, details of guidelines and
reports published by the RCS and other surgical bodies / societies and links
to internet resources relevant to evidence based health.


Health Information

Author: University of Newcastle
Title:  PRODIGY - PILS
URL:    http://www.schin.ncl.ac.uk/specprojects.htm
Country of Origin: England

As part of the PRODIGY II project a set of patient advice leaflets were
sourced. These have now been fully evaluated and re-developed to enable
readability and understandability. The report on this project can be
downloaded as a zipped file in Adobe Acrobat format. This report gives
details of a programme of assessment carried out on a set of patient
information leaflets for use in general practice consultations.

Author: Partnerships in Health Information
Title:  Partnerships in Health Information
URL:    http://omni.ac.uk/hosted/phi/
Country of Origin: England

Partnerships in Health Information is a charity which aims to help relieve
poverty, sickness, and distress by contributing to improvements in
healthcare in developing countries, and encouraging a more effective flow of
knowledge between nations. This website contains details of projects, the
handbook, donors, annual reports, history and trustees.


Housing and Development - Sustainable Development

Author: Best Foot Forward
Title:  Best Foot Forward
URL:    http://www.oxtrust.org.uk/bff/
Country of Origin: England

Best Foot Forward are a company which designs and develops software-based
tools to measure and communicate environmental impact and sustainability.
BFF have developed an advanced environmental measurement methodology, called
EcoIndex, which is based on Ecological Footprinting. This website provides
information on work in the area of sustainable development.


Inequalities

Author: The Centre for Social Justice and the Ontario Federation of Labour
Title:  The Growing Gap.
URL:    http://www.socialjustice.org/factsheets/gap/
Country of Origin: Canada

This is a series of factsheets which looks at increasing inequality between
the rich and the poor in Canada. Section A discusses the growing gap between
rich and poor in Canada. Section B discusses government influence and
ability to increase or decrease the growing gap between rich and poor, as
well as the influence of big business. Section C discusses the potential for
closing the gap.

Author: Social Watch
Title   Social Watch
URL:    http://www.socwatch.org.uy/1998/english/index.html
Country of Origin: Uruguay

At the World Summit on Social Development, held in March 1995, and the
Fourth World Women's Conference, which met in September 1995, the
governments of the world agreed to a program to fight poverty and gender
discrimination, and to promote employment and the integration of excluded
and underprivileged members of society. These political commitments, were
however not legally binding. A group of non-profit organisations that
attended the debates of the Social Summit and the Women's Conference decided
to launch "Social Watch," an annual report on compliance with agreements,
prepared by individuals actively involved in these issues. This website
contains the 1998 report.


Information Gateways

Author: Biomednet
Title:  Biomedlink
URL:    http://www.biomednet.com/db/biomedlink
Country of Origin: United States of America

BioMedLink is an evaluated and annotated database of Internet resources for
biological and medical researchers. This website features mainly clinical
rather than health promotion resources, however may be of interest to the
field. New entries are added weekly, and existing entries are periodically
reviewed and rated.

Author: Essex County Libraries
Title:  Euroguide
URL:    http://www.euroguide.org/
Country of Origin

The Euroguide website is a gateway to websites which contain information
about the European Union. It has been developed by Essex County Libraries
with input from members of the EARL (Electronic Access to Resources in
Libraries) European Task Group. The website includes links to health and
health related information.


Mental Health

Author: Mental Health Promotion Unit, Health Canada
Title:  Mental Health
URL:    http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/mentalhealth/
Country of Origin: Canada

The Mental Health Web site at Health Canada is designed to provide access to
online materials related to the promotion of mental health. This include
information about the planning, delivery, cost and evaluation of mental
health programs and services, and the mental health issues, problems and
disorders. Links to other site are included and an FAQ is being developed.