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Healthy People 2020 Objectives: Now Available for Viewing and Implementation

from the Healthy People 2010 News and Announcements [HEALTHYPEOPLE@LIST.NIH.GOV] Healthy People 2020 Objectives: Now Available for Viewing and Implementation On December 2, 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unveiled the Nation’s new 10-year goals and objectives … Continue reading

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National Library of Medicine Website Redesigned

(National Library of Medicine – the world’s largest medical library) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ On January 11, 2011, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) released a new design and organization for its Main Web site. The NLM homepage (http://www.nlm.nih.gov) has an entirely new … Continue reading

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Launch of Healthy People 2020

Healthy People 2020 is being launched today.     “Assistant Secretary for Health Howard K. Koh will unveil Healthy People 2020 goals and objectives, the nation’s health promotion and disease prevention agenda. The event also launched the solicitation of ideas for a … Continue reading

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Be Part of Making Healthy People Come Alive for Americans

Announced from Health People 2020.   Healthy People 2020 Launch on December 2, 2010  |  11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST You have played an important role in developing Healthy People 2020. Now the real work begins! It is with great excitement … Continue reading

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Public Health Blogging From APHA’s 138th Annual Meeting

This is a special request from a fellow health blogger.     I pass this information along so that others can participate in the meeting in person or virtually. “Greetings fellow health blogger! Let me introduce myself: My name is Kim Krisberg … Continue reading

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Health Literacy & Social Media

The following was posted on the HealthLiteracy listserv by Geri Lynn Baumblatt.   “This is an interview with a pediatrician whose getting great results by connecting with her patients via texting and twitter. The short format has also forced her … Continue reading

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Two National Library of Medicine Websites Redesigned

  The Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) Web pages have a new look: http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov. The pages have been redesigned to enhance access to NLM’s many and diverse resources useful for disaster and emergency readiness, response, and recovery. Emergency responders … Continue reading

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Social Media Resources

The following was posted on the BHIC Blog.      I just gave a brief look at the Health Communicator’s Social Media Toolkit and found it to be very informative, well organized and very practical. The Health Communicator’s Social Media Toolkit http://bit.ly/amOmMIContinue reading

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WeAreVisible.com

I recently learned of this website through David Lee King’s blog.    There  is quite a story of the site’s beginning and unique purpose.    Our  homeless citizens have a resource devoted to them.    The tag line on the web site  – … Continue reading

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The Power of Mobile

http://bit.ly/bgt3xU by Susannah Fox Sep 13, 2010 Pew Internet & American Life Project ” A mobile device is the internet for many people.  Access isn’t the point anymore. It’s what people are doing with the access that matters.”

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