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- The Community Guide - Provides health professionals and community leaders with information needed for informed decision making on the most effective public health strategies, policies and programs for their communities.
- Community Health Councils in Wales - Community Health Councils - The Patient's Voice in Wales The Association of Welsh Community Health Councils (AWCHC), the national body for all CHCs in Wales. They provide support to the 20 CHCs across Wales, who act on behalf of patients who receive treatment from the NHS. Sotes provides usefule information on the workigs of CHC's, latest news , links to local CHC sites, and contact details.
- Community Voices - Health Care for the Underserved is a five year national health initiative. Working from the community level up, aims to improve the quality and access of health care for the underserved.
- Journal of Health Communication - Tables of contents and submission information for quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on interpersonal health communication and public health campaigns.
- Community Tool Box - Guidance in improving community health and development. Offering specific, skill-building information on a variety of community topics.
- Health-Related Quality of Life, CDC - Information about CDC's use of health-related quality of life measures to track population health and identify health disparities in population subgroups, and in state and local communities.
- Central District Health Department - Boise, Idaho - A Public Health Resource site. One of Idaho's seven independent public health districts, providing community health services to Ada, Boise, Elmore, and Valley Counties.
- Centretown Community Health Centre - A community-based, multi-service health centre that provides integrated social and health services. Services, facilities information, newsletters. [English/French]
- Local Government Planning for Health and Wellbeing - Provides information to support local governments in positively influencing the health and wellbeing of their communities. Health Act, Environments for Health framework, programs, conferences, urban design, and community health plans.
- Managing Community Health Services - A resource for those working at the community level to improve health. Tools, discussion boards and related links.
Wikipedia Articles
- Community health - Community health, a field within public health, is a discipline that concerns itself with the study and betterment of the health characteristics of communities. While the term community can be broadly defined, community health tends to focus on geographic areas rather than people with shared characteristics.
- Community Mental Health Act - The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (CMHA) (also known as the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act) (Public Law 88-164) was an act to provide Federal funding for community mental health centers. It led to considerable deinstitutionalization.
- Community Health Services and Facilities Act - The Community Health Services and Facilities Act is one of the important factors of the 1965 Community Health Centers Act was that it mandated appropriate mental health services for the younger population.
- Association for Community Health Improvement - The Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI) is the premier national association for community health, healthy communities and community benefit.
- Community Health Center - A Community Health Center is committed to improving the health of its community. Health is broadly defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not simply the absence of disease or infirmity.