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Resources

These resources can be utilized by policy makers, program managers, health planners, and researchers who are concerned with urban health.

  • U.S. Census Bureau is the premier source of information about the American people and the economy. This information shapes important policy decisions that help improve the nation’s social and economic conditions. Its activities involve survey and questionnaire design, geographic infrastructure update, and data collection, processing, and dissemination. The U.S. Census Bureau web address is: http://www.census.gov/.

  • The Guttmacher Institute aims to advance sexual and reproductive health through an interrelated program of social science research, policy analysis and public education. The Institute focuses on such topical areas as: abortion, adolescents, contraception, HIV and AIDS and STIs, men’s health, pregnancy, services and financing, sex and relationships, and technology and bioethics. The Guttmacher Institute web address is: http://www.guttmacher.org/index.html.

  • Harvard University, School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health conduct research and analysis of data for the website Diversitydata.org providing Metropolitan Quality of Life Data. This project identifies metropolitan area indicators of diversity, opportunity, quality of life and health for various racial and ethnic population groups. The project offers a scorecard comparing metro areas along verious metricssuch as: opportunities for good schools, housing, jobs, wages, health and social services, and safe neighborhoods, to compare achievement across metro areas and to make continuous changes to keep metropolitan life healthy for all populations. This project can be accessed at: http://diversitydata.sph.harvard.edu/.

  • The National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) is the national organization representing local health departments.  NACCHO supports efforts that protect and improve the health of all people and all communities by promoting national policy, developing resources and programs, seeking health equity, and supporting effective local public health practice and systems. NACCHO web address is: http://www.naccho.org/.

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CDC Wonder, is a wide-ranging online data for epidemiologic research.  It provides an easy-to-use, menu-driven system that makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large.  It provides access to a wide array of public health information, including: AIDS, births, infant death, mortality, cancer, population, tuberculosis, STI mortality, and vaccine adverse event reporting. These databases are available at: http://wonder.cdc.gov/.

  • National Cancer Institute. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End results program (NCI SEER Program), State Cancer Profiles. The SEER Program is an authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. SEER currently collects and publishes cancer incidence and survival data from population-based cancer registries covering approximately 26 percent of the US population. Interactive graphics and maps provide visual support for deciding where to focus cancer control efforts. The SEER program can be found at: http://seer.cancer.gov/.

  • The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a leader in health policy and communications, is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. Unlike grant-making foundations, Kaiser develops and runs its own research and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with other non-profit research organizations or major media companies.  It serves as a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. The Kaiser Family Foundation web address is: http://www.kff.org.

  • CityMatCH is a freestanding national membership organization of city and county health departments’ maternal and child health (MCH) programs and leaders representing urban communities in the United States.  It consists of four action groups: organization effectiveness, education and training, best practices and policy, and undoing racism. The CityMatCH web address is: http://www.citymatch.org/. 

  • National Association of Counties (NACo) is the only national organization that represents county governments in the United States. It provides essential services to the nation’s 3,066 counties. NACo advances issues with a unified voice before the federal government, improves the public’s understanding of county governments, assists counties in finding and sharing innovative solutions through education and research, and provides value-added services to save counties and taxpayers money. The focus areas of NACo include: community and economic development; environment, energy, and land use; health; housing; human services and education; and labor and employment. The NACo web address is: http://www.naco.org/.

  • PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity guided by the belief that individuals closest to the nation’s challenges are central to the search for solutions. PolicyLink highlights promising practices, supports advocacy campaigns, and helps to bridge the traditional divide between local communities and policymaking at the local, regional, state, and national levels.Equitable development is a central approach to the work of PolicyLink grounded in four principles: the integration of people and places; reduction of local and regional disparities; promotion of sound investments; and ensuring meaningful voice, participation, and leadership from community members. The PolicyLink web address is: http://www.policylink.org/default.html.

Also see the resources from the 2008 National Urban Initiative for Reproductive Health Summit:

  • See the wealth of information contained in the description of the 2008 Summit's 11 issue areas.
  • View the powerpoint presentation delivered by presenters 2008 Summit's 11 sessions.