Public Health: Public Health Organization, Goverance, Policy, and Ethics

Directory of associations and information resources devoted to the topic of public health.

The Association aims to protect all Americans, their families and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States.

Helping the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public's health

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) is dedicated to achieving healthy communities through research, training, and technical assistance. For more than 40 years, this national, non-profit organization has been creating new information and helping health agencies and other community health organizations connect to and more effectively use information to manage and improve performance, understand and use data, and strengthen the workforce.

Documents on a variety of topics in the field of health policy.

Query the California Health Interview Study, view local statistics, or read reports. You may have to create an account, but the resource is free.

This organization promotes the rigorous use of evidence to support or change health policy. Lots of reports, training resources, and other links.

Economics is key to health policy decisions. Use this tutorial to learn how to find and use economic information. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine.