HPiC WEBSITE NEWS

28th June 1999  -  Issue  23

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.


Community Health

Author: Barnet College
Title:  Community regeneration through Higher Education, Public Art, Health
and Technology.
URL:    http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~eilean/communiversitycontents.htm
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Barnet College is running a conference on Communiversity on 1st to 3rd
September 1999. A website has been created to support this conference To
support this conference a website has been created, containing background
information and information about selected projects.


Disabilities

Author: Mental Health Media
Title:  MediaFirst
URL:    http://www.mediafirst.org.uk/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Mediafirst is a European partnership co-ordinated by Mental Health Media
with core funding from the
European Union's Leonardo da Vinci Programme. Mediafirst uses the media to
help people with learning difficulties to communicate about the things that
are important to them. This website provides information about the project.


Author: National Migraine Association
Title:  National Migraine Association
URL:    http://www.migraines.org
Country of Origin: United States of America

National Migraine Association or MAGNUM: Migraine Awareness Group: A
National Understanding for Migraineurs, was created to bring public
awareness to the fact that Migraine is a true organic neurological disease.
This website provides information about the organisation, myths and
realities of migraines, information about support groups and FAQ's.


Environment

Author: Directorate General XI of the European Commission
Title:  Action Towards Local Sustainability (ATLAS)
URL:    http://www.sustainability.org.uk/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Action Towards Local Sustainability is a European project helping local
authorities to improve quality of life in their communities through
sustainable development.  This website includes background information,
policy guidance, case studies and examples of tools and techniques that
between them illustrate how the principles of sustainable development can be
put into practice at a local level.


Health Information

Author: Health Education Authority, The Centre for Health Information
Quality, & Showme Multimedia
Title:  QUICK: The Quality Information Checklist
URL:    http://www.quick.org.uk
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

The QUICK web site is a resource to help young people evaluate the
information they find on the Internet.
It is aimed at children at Key Stages 2 and 3, and uses imaginary examples,
quizzes and puzzles to explore concepts around information quality. Many of
the examples are health related, but the concepts can be used with any
subjects that require information skills. The website is designed for use as
a teaching aid in an educational setting.


Health Promotion / Education

Author: Centre for Social Marketing at the University of Strathclyde
Title:  Centre for Social Marketing at the University of Strathclyde
URL:    http://www.csm.strath.ac.uk
Country of Origin: United Kingdom - Scotland

The Centre for Social Marketing at the University of Strathclyde studies the
social issues of marketing and the marketing of social issues, and in
particular, health promotion issues has a new website. This website includes
information about the Centre and it's work.


Author: North Durham Health Promotion
Title:  North Durham Health Promotion
URL:    http://www.derwentside.org.uk/ndhp/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

North Durham Health Promotion service aims to "work with people and
organisations to encourage them to take actions which improve their own and
others' health". Their website contains sections for the local community,
professionals information about initiatives and the Health Promotion
Resource Centre, including downloadable catalogue. The web site is a
partnership project with Derwentside District Council who host the site as
part of their Infonet Project, which has the first on-line Job Centre in the
UK.


Inequalities

Author: Crisis
Title:  Crisis
URL:    http://www.crisis.org.uk
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Crisis is a national charity dedicated to the relief of poverty and distress
among single homeless people.  They aim to end street homelessness through
practical action. This website includes information about the charity and
it's work, discussion forum, and research and publications.

Author: National Institute of Social Sciences Information
Title:  Smart Library on Urban Poverty
URL:    http://www.societyonline.org/visitor/urbanpoverty/
Country of Origin:      United States of America

The Smart Library on urban Poverty contains information, articles and
research on urban poverty. The website aims to answer thousands of questions
about poverty, its causes and how to fight it, from the most important
scholarly work .


Nutrition

Author: Jean Fremont, RD, School of Kinesiology Simon Fraser University
Title:  Food and Nutrition on the Web
URL:    http://www.sfu.ca/~jfremont/
Country of Origin: Canada

"Food and Nutrition on the Web - Finding the Right  Stuff" is a guide for
health professionals, educators and the public. The website contains
information about and links to scientific nutrition information,  special
dietary needs, food science, food safety and more.


Pregnancy and Parenthood

Author: Healthy Kids magazine & PRIMEDIA
Title:  HealthyKids.com
URL:    http://www.healthykids.com/
Country of Origin: United States of America

HealthyKids.com is created by Healthy Kids magazine (the consumer
publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics/AAP) and PRIMEDIA. The
website is a parents' guide to raising happy, healthy children, and
addresses the developmental, nutritional and emotional development of
children and families. The website also contains chat and message boards.


Safety

Author: NTC Publications Ltd.
Title:  Risk Analysis Center
URL:    http://www.risk-analysis-center.com/
Country of Origin: United States of America

The Risk Analysis Center contains information about a wide variety of risks
including crime, disease, sports injuries, food, workplace accidents,
travel, and pollution. The site contains a searchable database of abstracts
of articles, however you need to register and log in to the database to
access this (free at the moment).



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HPiC Web pages: http://www.hea.org.uk/hpic. HPiC provides a Website Gateway
to health promotion related websites via the HealthpPromis database, which
also contains over 52,000 bibliographic references to health promotion
publications, resources and articles. The HealthPromis database may be
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content of links provided.