HPiC WEBSITE NEWS
25th January 1999 - Issue 12
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 .
Disabilities
Author: W3C
Title: Web Accessibility Initiative
URL: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Country of Origin: N/A
The W3C has made a commitment to promoting a high degree of internet
usability for people with disabilities. The Web Accessibility Initiative
(WAI), in co-ordination with organisations around the world, aims to tackle
issues of accessibility of the Web through five main areas of work:
technology, guidelines, tools, education & outreach, and research &
development. This page outlines the initiative with links to guidelines and
resources.
Evidence Based Health
Author: The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness, Monash Medical Centre,
Melbourne, Australia
Title: The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness
URL: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psychmed/clinicaleff/
Country of Origin: Australia
The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness at Monash Medical Centre provides a
range of services locally, including generating evidence-based reviews for
members of our staff. This website contains some of these reviews, as well
as being a gateway to evidence-based information and resources for reviewing
papers and reading articles.
Author: Various (this is a collaborative project)
Title: Health Evidence Bulletins Wales
URL: http://www.uwcm.ac.uk/uwcm/lb/pep/index.html
Country of Origin: Wales
The Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales are a new initiative and aim to act as
signposts to the best current evidence across a broad range of evidence
types and subject areas. The Bulletins aim to assist Health Authorities
with the planning and commissioning of healthcare and assist continuing
education and audit. Currently the following Bulletins on Injury prevention,
Maternal and early child health, Oral health, and Respiratory diseases are
available. Bulletins on Cancers, Cardiovascular diseases, Healthy
environments, Health living, Learning disability, Mental health, Pain, and
Physical disability should be available soon.
Health Service
Author: Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto, Canada
Title: CHP Working Group on Integrated Delivery Systems
URL: http://www.utoronto.ca/chp/ihs.htm
Country of Origin: Canada
The Centre for Health Promotion's Working Group on Integrated Health Systems
has developed a background paper as part of its strategy for ensuring that
health promotion will be an integral part of Integrated Health Systems (IHS)
in Ontario. A synthesis of this document, "Nine Steps to a Health Promoting
Integrated System", aimed at health professionals is available.
HIV / AIDS and Sexual Health
Author: www.youthHIV.org
Title: www.youthHIV.org
URL: http://www.youthhiv.org
Country of Origin: United States of America
This web site was created by the peer advisors of Youth Resource, in
addition to participants of the Youth Institute at the 1998 United States
AIDS Conference in Dallas, Texas, who were involved in the internet breakout
session in the Cybercafe. It provides information about HIV prevention and
education, campaigns, a discussion group, library and message board. The
site is also part of the Peer Education Web-Ring, a network of peer
education websites.
Mental Health
Author: World Psychiatric Association
Title: Open The Doors
URL: http://www.openthedoors.com
Country of Origin: N/A
This is the website of the World Psychiatric Association's (WPA)
International Programme to Fight the Stigma and Discrimination because of
Schizophrenia. The programme aims to dispel the myths and misunderstandings
surrounding schizophrenia. The website provides general information about
the programme, information for health professionals, information for
families and friends and a section called "Teens talking to teens"
containing information for young people.
Obesity
Author: Association for the Study of Obesity
Title: Association for the Study of Obesity
URL: http://www.aso.org.uk/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The Association for the Study of Obesity is an organisation dedicated to the
understanding and treatment of obesity. Founded in 1967, it provides a focus
for obesity research and treatment in the UK. This website contains
information about the work of the organisation and links to other resources.
Research
Author: Department of Health (UK)
Title: National Research Register
URL: http://www.doh.gov.uk/research/nrr.htm
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The National Research Register (NRR) is a register of ongoing and recently
completed research projects funded by the United Kingdom's National Health
Service. The first release contains information on over
28,000 research projects, as well as entries from the Medical Research
Council's Clinical Trials Register, and details on reviews in progress
collected by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. The Register is
available as a fully searchable database.
Author: The United Kingdom Patent Office
Title: Esp@cenet
URL: http://dips.patent.gov.uk/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Esp@cenet is a collection of interlinked Web Sites enabling users to search
(for free) for information that can be found on the front pages of patent
documents published around the world. It is possible to view the
bibliographic details and where available the abstract, full text and images
of a document by clicking on the patent number. It is possible to search
for United Kingdom patents, patents from other European countries, European
(EP) patents, PCT (WO) patents, Worldwide patents and Japanese patents.
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