Online4PublicHealth
Data & Statistics
- CDC Data & Statistics—U.S. health/disease data and statistics, surveys, surveillance, interactive tools, vital statistics, publications, products
- Global Health Facts from Henry J. Kaiser Foundation
- MedLinePlus Health Statistics from National Library of Medicine
- National Public Health Performance Standards (NPHPSP) Online Resource Center—the only collection of resources designed to help public health systems and boards of health improve their performance related to Essential Public Health Services and the national standards.
- ProMed-mail—global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins
- U.S. State Health Facts from Henry J. Kaiser Foundation
- WHO Data and Statistics
- WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)—National statistics for 70 core indicators on mortality, morbidity, risk factors, service coverage, and health systems
- WHO Global InfoBase Online—Data on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO Member States
- Global Health Atlas—Standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels
- Regional statistics—Statistical information from WHO Regional OfficesInSTEDD—free and open source technologies combining the power of the Web and mobile computing reliable field collaboration in emergencies
Social Media
Social media software applications, as currently categorized and listed in Wikipedia, include:
Communication
- Blogs: Blogger, LiveJournal, Open Diary, TypePad, WordPress, Vox, ExpressionEngine, Xanga
- Micro-blogging / Presence applications: Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr, Jaiku, fmylife
- Social networking: Bebo, BigTent, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, Skyrock, Hi5, Ning, Elgg
- Social network aggregation: NutshellMail, FriendFeed
- Events: Upcoming, Eventful, Meetup.com
Collaboration
- Wikis: Wikipedia, PBwiki, wetpaint
- Social bookmarking (or social tagging Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google Reader, CiteULike)
- Social news: Digg, Mixx, Reddit, NowPublic
- Opinion sites: epinions, Yelp
Multimedia
- Photo sharing: Flickr, Zooomr, Photobucket, SmugMug, Picasa
- Video sharing: YouTube, Vimeo, sevenload
- Livecasting: Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, Stickam, Skype
- Audio and Music Sharing: imeem, The Hype Machine, Last.fm, ccMixter
Reviews and Opinions
- Product Reviews: epinions.com, MouthShut.com
- Business Reviews: yelp.com
- Community Q&A: Yahoo! Answers, WikiAnswers, Askville, Google Answers
Entertainment
- Media & Entertainment Platforms: Cisco Eos
- Virtual worlds: Second Life, The Sims Online, Forterra
- Game sharing: Miniclip, Kongregate
Information Aggregators
Formal Organizational Use of Social Media
- The White House Blog:New Media Round-up From Across the Administration
- Health & Human Services use of and guidance on using YouTube, Twitter, and other New and/or Social Media
- Centers for Disease Control: Social Media Tools used in social media campaigns for seasonal flu, novel H1N1 (swine) flu, peanut product recall
- Food and Drug Administration Public Hearing on Promotion of FDA-Regulated Medical Products Using the Internet and Social Media Tools
- Nation's Health (APHA), August 2009: Public health leaders using social media to convey emergencies: New tools a boon
- APHA and partners spring 2009 round table on Social Media and Risk Communication during Times of Crisis
Social Media Use for Public Health
- Social Bookmarking & Del.icio.us: A Personal and Professional Productivity Tool—slideset illustrates public health uses of website bookmarking technologies
- Connotea—Free online reference management for clinicians and scientists, with public health "tag"
- Twitter and Microblogging for Public Health—slideset illustrates public health uses of social networking technologies
- Vimeo videos re public health
- Flickr photos with public health tag
- BLOGS
Google searches show innumerable examples of social media used for public health:
- AddThis + public health
- 150+ SM are listed alphabetically with links in Preview at AddThis.com
- Bookmark + public health
- digg + public health
- facebook + public health
- myspace + public health
- twitter + public health
- rss + public health
- Google Bookmarks + public health
- Yahoo MyWeb + public health
- daily strength + public health
- delicious + public health
- jaiku + public health
- mixx + public health
- NewsTrust + public health
- newsvine + public health
- ping aggregator + public health
- plurk + public health
- podcast + public health
- reddit + public health
- Stumble It! + public health
- technorati + public health
- webcast + public health
- yahoo buzz + public health
Services, Technology, Communications
- Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals, Kaiser Family Foundation
- mHealth for Development: The Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World
- Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Knowledge Gateway—a simple and powerful tool for virtual Communities of Practice
- Gapminder--Unveils the visual beauty of comparative, time-trended statistics for a fact basedview ofworld development
- EpiSpider Map—online global mapping of reported diseases (e.g from ProMed) events
- HealthMap Global Disease Alert Map, GOOGLE sponsored unified, comprehensie, globalview map of infectious diseases reported from many sources
- GIS Related Internet Links of the ATSDR, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- InSTEDD—free and open source technologies--web with mobile computing reliably provide communication, data, & coordination for teams working in emergencies.
- InSTEDD Mesh4X—an adaptive integration platform lets teams share critical data reliably, selectively, and securely, with anyone, using any device, from any database, over any network.
- InSTEDD Evolve—a suite of analytic, machine-learning, and visualization services that let teams of experts collaborate around multiple streams of information to detect emerging events and generate actionable information.
- InSTEDD GeoChat is a dynamic communications system that lets teams coordinate around events as they unfold, linking field, headquarters, and the local community in a unified effective response.
- TrackerNews.Net is news for an increasingly uncertain world, a unique information service providing the humanitarian community with an in-depth, multi-disciplinary perspective on complex problems.
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