HPiC WEBSITE NEWS
16th August 1999 - Issue 24
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.
Environment
Author: The EHS Network
Title: Environmental Health and Safety Internet Gazette
URL: http://www.ehsn.com/
Country of Origin: United States of America
EH&S Internet Gazette is a monthly newsletter targeted toward the
Environmental, Health, & Safety Professional. Each issue includes a feature
article, new EHS product reviews and updates and links to new EHS sites.
This site has a North American focus.
Author: Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Title: Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
URL: http://www.cieh.org.uk/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is a non-governmental
organisation which aims to promote environmental health and disseminate of
knowledge about environmental health issues for the benefit of the public.
This website provides information about the organisation and it's work.
Author: World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Title: Draft Charter on Transport, Environment and Health
URL: http://www.who.dk/london99/transporte.htm
Country of Origin: Denmark
This website provides the full-text of the WHO Draft Charter on Transport,
Environment and Health. The Charter was adopted at The Third Ministerial
Conference on Environment and Health which took place in London from 16-18
June 1999, which was attended by over 70 ministers of health, environment
and transport from 54 countries.
Author: United Nations Environment and Development UK Committee
Title: UNED-UK homepage
URL: http://www.oneworld.org/uned-uk/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
UNED-UK has as its primary objective "the promotion of global environmental
protection and sustainable development , particularly through support of the
UN Environment Programme, the UN Development Programme, the UN Commission on
Sustainable Development, and all other relevant UN and inter-governmental
institutions". This website provides information about the organisation and
it's work.
Health
Author: GLOBALHEALTH2000
Title: GLOBALHEALTH2000
URL: http://www.GLOBALHEALTH2000.com
Country of Origin: United States of America
GLOBALHEALTH2000 is an health portal for healthcare professionals ,
consumers and patients. The site links to databases including Medline ,
Aidsline , Healthstar and Cancerlit, contains news and members are provided
with complementary email facilities. The site is free to access but requires
registration.
HIV / AIDS and Sexual Health
Author: Camden and Islington Community Health Services Trust. Health
Promotion Service
Title: Thinking it through: a new approach to sex, relationships and HIV
for gay men
URL: http://www.thinking-it-through.co.uk/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The "Thinking it through" website outlines a harm minimisation approach to
HIV and STD prevention which looks at the implications for gay men of not
using condoms with regular partners This is the website version of a booklet
that was first published in paper format.
Author: Sex Education Forum
Title: Sex Education Forum
URL: http://www.ncb.org.uk/sexed.htm
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The Sex Education Forum, aims to promote the teaching of effective and
appropriate sex education. It is an umbrella body bringing together 39
national organisations representing children, health, education, religion
and parents. This website contains information and news of the organisation,
the Sex Education Matters newsletter, fact sheets and publications.
Nutrition and Food Hygiene
Author: The Soil Association
Title: The Soil Association
URL: http://www.soilassociation.org
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The Soil Association is the UK's leading campaigning and certification body
for organic food and farming. The association aims to develop and provide
practical and sustainable solutions which combine food production and
environmental protection and human health. This website includes information
about the organisation, a library, information about organic food, and
campaigns.
Author: Royal Society of Arts & Waitrose
Title: RSA Focus on Food Campaign
URL: http://195.212.30.27/@school/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The RSA Focus on Food Campaign, which is supported by WAITROSE@SCHOOL aims
to increase
awareness of the importance of food education. This website provides
information on key features of the Focus on Food Campaign, including Focus
on Food Week, The Cooking Bus mobile resource, The RSA/WAITROSE Endowed
Research Fellowship, and the Supporting QCA¹s Whole School Policies
initiative. The site also provides resources to support food education for
teachers involved in the primary and secondary National Curriculum.
Pregnancy and Parenthood
Author: Amanda Formaro / Thefamilycorner.com
Title: The Family Corner
URL: http://www.thefamilycorner.com/
Country of Origin: United States of America
This website contains information about families, geared mainly towards
parents. It is run by parents for parents to share information. Topics
covered range from relationships to family food menus and health
tips relating to seasons of the year.
Professional Development
Author: Wisdom Centre for Networked Learning
Title: A resource pack for clinical governance
URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/wrp/index.html
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The WISDOM project delivers networked professional development (NPD) for
primary health care, using Internet technologies for information sharing and
communication. The project currently promotes NPD in a number of areas,
including: Health Informatics, Evidence-based Practice, Primary Care Group
Organisation, Change Management and Clinical Governance and Quality
Assurance. The web site supports discussion groups, and also contains
Virtual Conferences, Learning Resources, Portfolio Learning, The Electronic
Library and a What's New section.
Author: Health Promotion European Learning Network & The Wolfson Institute
of Health Sciences
Title: Health Promotion European Learning Network
URL: http://www.hpeuro.tvu.ac.uk/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The Health Promotion European Learning Network project grew out of two
meetings held in 1996 with representatives from seven Higher Education
Institutes (HEIs) from five EU member states interested in working
collaboratively to create open and distance learning Masters level programme
for professionals working in the field of health promotion. This website
outlines the project.
Research
Author: Mailbase
Title: sys-review
URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/sys-review/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Sys-review is a new mailbase discussion list has been set up to support
researchers in the health promotion / public health community undertaking
systematic reviews. The mailbase website provides details on how to join.
Safety
Author: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Title: Kerbcraft: smart strategies for pedestrian safety
URL: http://www.roads.detr.gov.uk/roadsafety/rs2/index.htm
Also http://www.roads.detr.gov.uk/roadsafety/index.htm
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The Kerbcraft road safety scheme was developed and evaluated by Strathclyde
University, and is based on a road safety education scheme originally run in
Drumchapel, a peripheral housing estate in Glasgow.
The scheme aims to teach three pedestrian skills to 5-6 year old children
over a 12-18 month period (depending on starting dates), and this website
provides the resources to run the scheme.
Smoking
Author: University of Geneva
Title: Systeme-expert Stop-tab@c
URL: http://www.stop-tabac.ch/
Country of Origin: Switzerland
This website is developed by the University of Geneva, Institute of Social
and preventive Medicine. It is a smoking cessation program which consists
of 2 elements: firstly individual counselling reports, based on the users
answers to a questionnaire, and secondly a series of six leaflets for
smokers and ex-smokers.
Social Issues
Author: Partnerships Online
Title: The neighbourhoods online game
URL: http://www.partnerships.org.uk/nolgame/
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The neighbourhoods online game has been designed by partnerships online, to
help people explore ways in which they can use the Internet to benefit their
local community.
Author: United Nations
Title: United Nations Human Development Report 1999
URL: http://www.undp.org/hdro/index2.html
Country of Origin: N/A
The United Nations Human Development Report 1999 is now available online as
a PDF document. The theme of the report is globalisation, and chapters
include: Human development in this age of globalisation, New technologies
and the global race for knowledge, The invisible heart-care and the global
economy, National responses to make globalisation work for human
development, and Reinventing global governance-for humanity and equity.
Statistics
Author: Glasgow University
Title: Sources of Medical Statistics
URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Library/Depts/MOPS/Stats/medstats.html
Country of Origin: United Kingdom - Scotland
This web page from Glasgow University Library pulls together lot statistical
sources from around the world.
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