{"id":13023,"date":"2023-02-28T13:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=13023"},"modified":"2023-02-28T13:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:30:03","slug":"national-public-health-week-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/national-public-health-week-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University Library Celebrates National Public Health Week 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A view of 121South Main Street. Photo by Ken Zirkel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In keeping with the theme of National Public Health Week 2023<\/a>, Centering and Celebrating Cultures in Health<\/strong>, below are some relevant projects, initiatives, and resources from the Brown University Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subscription resources available via the Library<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A search for \u201cpublic health\u201d as subject retrieves these results<\/a> in BruKnow, the Library catalog. You may use the filters on the left side to refine results by format, library, language, and more. Sign in with your Brown credentials to access or request any of the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key academic research databases, books, journals, and other resources for Public Health can be found here: libguides.brown.edu\/PublicHealth<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freely-available online resources for reliable health information<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation)<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nonprofit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. KFF develops and runs its own policy analysis, journalism and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with major news organizations. KFF serves as a nonpartisan source of facts, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MedlinePlus.gov<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Offers high-quality, relevant health and wellness information that is trusted, easy to understand, and free of advertising, in both English and Spanish. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is the world\u2019s largest medical library and a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EthnoMed<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

EthnoMed is Harborview Medical Center\u2019s ethnic medicine website containing medical and cultural information about immigrant and refugee groups. Information is specific to groups in the Seattle area, but much of the cultural and health information is of interest and applicable in other geographic areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More freely-available online resources can be found here: libguides.brown.edu\/ConsumerHealth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for Digital Scholarship projects<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about the Twitter projects on Black Maternal Health<\/a> and My Body My Choice<\/a> that the Library\u2019s Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) staff have collaborated on with faculty. Information about other CDS projects can be viewed on the CDS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Collections<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Request access to special collections materials at the John Hay Library on Alcohol and Addiction Studies<\/a>, ACT UP Rhode Island<\/a>, and more! Find information about many special collections holdings<\/a> and researching and access<\/a>ing special collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In keeping with the theme of National Public Health Week 2023, Centering and Celebrating Cultures in Health, below are some relevant projects, initiatives, and resources from the Brown University Library. Subscription resources available via the Library A search for \u201cpublic health\u201d as subject retrieves these results in BruKnow, the Library catalog. You may use the … Brown University Library Celebrates National Public Health Week 2023<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-biomed","category-home-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}