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Disease Detectives: So You Think You're an Infectious Disease

From the Science Museum of Minnesota: Watch three infectious diseases compete for the title of Emerging Infectious Disease. Disease Detectives is a traveling exhibit created by the Science Museum of Minnesota, and made possible by a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) award from the National Center for Research Resources, a component of the National Institutes of Health.


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What is Public Health Law Research?

From Temple University's Public Health Law Channel: Scott Burris, director of Public Health Law Research at Temple University, explains what public health law research is, and what kinds of research PHLR supports.


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Climate Change: Mastering the Public Health Role

One of the principal challenges that the public health community faces is to communicate the health impacts of climate change and enhance public readiness to take actions that limit further warming. This guidebook, adapted from a six-part webinar series, brings a diverse set of experts together to bridge the gap between climate change science and the public health response. 2011, 82 pages. Download here . . .
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Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century

From the Institute of Medicine:

This classic report from the committee on the Quality of Health Care in America makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap, recommends a redesign of the American health care system, and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others.

It offers a set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system, a set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships, a suggested organizing framework to better align incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvement in quality, and key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems.

Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, this report also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.

Download the full report here.

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Modern Guide to Health (1947)

Animation short cartoon promoting general health awareness for the National Health Service in 1947. The film concentrates on four general health problems: correct posture; the value of exercise and fresh air; the importance of suitable clothes; how to avoid insomnia.


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Video Focus

Michael Pollan on The High Cost of Cheap Food

From the Daily Show: Michael Pollan wants Americans to recognize that cheap food comes with a high cost to their health and the environment.

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Public Health 101

The Global Health Education Consortium

A discussion of the global health challenges and the mission of the Global Health Education Consortium.
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    Epidemiology & BioStatistics

    Malnutrition and Gut Microbes

    From NPR's All Things Considered. This podcast and associate article explores how bacteria in a person's gut may lead to a deadly form of malnutrition, as first published in a February 2013 article in Science. Podcast and full article available here.



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    Health Behavior

    Smoking and the Health Belief Model

    Short student video applying the health belief model.

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    Health Services

    U.S. Health Care: The Good News

    In this PBS documentary, correspondent T.R. Reid profiles doctors and hospitals all over the U.S. that are finding ways to cut health care costs while still providing excellent care. Several low-cost, high-quality regions are examined to find out how they do it.


    Watch High Quality Care at Low Cost on PBS. See more from U.S. Health Care: The Good News.

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    Community Health

    Public Health Nursing

    Short profile of two public health nurses in San Diego County, CA.

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    Environmental Health

    Walkable 101

    Dan Burden from the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute shares the benefits of Walkability to a healthy community.

    Walkable 101: The Basics from Martin County CRA on Vimeo.

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    Global Health

    The Global Health Education Consortium

    A discussion of the global health challenges and the mission of the Global Health Education Consortium.
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