Day: March 4, 2014

CDPH in the News

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CDPH in the News

Control program receives funds from the Santa Maria Times

Santa Barbara County’s Tuberculosis Control Program received the go-ahead from the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to use nearly $30,000 from the California Department of Public Health?s Tuberculosis Control Branch to continue investigations amidst a North County outbreak.

Riverside County Infant Dies from Whooping Cough, First in State This Year from the Murrieta Patch

A Riverside County child died of complications related to whopping cough, in the first known fatal case in the state this year, health officials said Friday. According to the County Department of Public Health, the 2-month-old tot had not been vaccinated for whooping cough, also known as pertussis, and apparently the infant’s mother had not received a booster shot while she was pregnant.

Water District Size Matters Significantly in a Drought from the Public CEO.com

The California Department of Public Health has identified 17 community water districts at risk of running out of drinking water this spring. This affects more than 40,000 people, most of them in normally water-rich Mendocino and Sonoma Counties. The 17 at-risk districts have three things in common: They are small, They have just one, or at most two sources of water, They lack physical connections to other water districts.

CDPH Problem Gambling Summit Focuses on Innovations in Treatment from the Imperial Valley News

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Office of Problem Gambling?s (OPG) fifth annual training summit will focus on innovative treatment methods for this disease and educating the public about its warning signs.

California Department of Public Health Reports Confirmed Flu Deaths Reported in State Reach 278 from the Sierra Sun Times

Dr. Ron Chapman, director of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and state health officer, announced today the number of confirmed influenza related deaths in persons under 65 years of age reported in the state has increased by 35 to a total of 278 confirmed deaths for the 2013-14 season. Six of the 278 are pediatric deaths. There are an additional 29 deaths under investigation, not yet confirmed.

Announcing the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Digital Archive

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The Bancroft Library is pleased to announce the publication of the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Digital Archive: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/jais/

The result of a two-year digitization project generously funded by the National Park Service as part of the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, the digital archive makes available nearly 100,000 original manuscript items from The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study initiated in 1942 at the University of California, Berkeley. This research project sought to document the mass internment of Japanese Americans by embedding Nisei social science students recruited from the Berkeley campus into selected internment sites.

The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Digital Archive website provides access to this massive collection of research materials through various means, including textual searches and browsing options, visual mechanisms such as GIS tagging and interactive maps, a timeline, and pointers to related resources. The collection comprises daily journals, field reports, life histories, extensive correspondence between staff, evacuees, and others, and secondary research materials collected and compiled by the research staff.

Richmond Training: Literature Searching: Beyond PubMed and More

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 10am-11:30am
Computer Training Room, P-1246
850 Marina Bay Parkway, Building P, Richmond, CA

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RSVP by Monday, March 10th to msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.

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PLEASE NOTE: This class is limited to 16 participants. A waiting list will be created, if necessary, for an additional class.

NON-BUILDING P OCCUPANTS: Please make sure to register so your name will be on the class participant list given to the Building P Security Desk for entry into Building P.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

* Are you interested in learning about databases besides PubMed where you can find articles and more?

* Want to know about sources of systematic reviews and grey literature?

* Want to practice using these databases with some hands-on exercises?

* Do you want to know how to search databases more effectively by using index terms (aka subject terms, thesaurus terms, descriptors)?

If you’ve answered “Yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Literature Searching: Beyond PubMed and More, Hands-on class!

Topics covered will include:
1. How to come up with a good topic for literature searching
2. The basics of indexing
3. Databases beyond PubMed, including sources for systematic reviews and grey literature
4. Critically evaluating what you find

It is recommended, but not required, that you have some experience or familiarity with searching PubMed.

Class Objective:
This class will cover the basics of topic formulation, and how a database index (a set of subject terms) works. You will also learn about databases to search besides PubMed, and will learn how to critically evaluate what you find in these databases.

These hands-on training sessions are free to CDPH employees. A certificate of completion will be available at the end of class for participants.

A schedule of other upcoming training sessions is available online.

Sacramento Training: Food/Nutrition Resources

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 1:30 – 2:30pm
Room 72.167
1500 Capitol Ave, Sacramento
(Turn left as you enter the building and
proceed through the double doors past the
Enterprise Training Room)

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RSVP by Monday, March 24th to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.

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* Need to find literature on food and nutrition and their relationship to health?

* Want to know the nutritive value of different kinds of foods, from broccoli to Big Macs?

* Interested in how many fruits and vegetables Californians eat daily and other statistical information?

* Need to keep updated on the latest foodborne outbreaks and recalls?

* Want to know about quality sources of food/nutrition information for consumers?

* Curious about what professional resources (e.g., free training courses) are available to you?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Food/Nutrition Resources class!

Some of the topics that will be covered:
1. Using bibliographic databases such as Agricola to find journal articles on food and nutrition topics
2. Resources for finding the nutritive value of foods
3. Finding statistics on food consumption
4. Information for consumers or for developing consumer material
5. Tools for professionals

Class Objective:
An introduction for CDPH staff to quality food and nutrition resources that are freely available online. Use of these resources will help staff locate statistics, policies/best work practices, and evidence-based information in support of their work. Professional tools can assist in staff skill development.

A certificate of completion will be given to those who pre-register and attend the class.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

These training sessions are free to CDPH staff. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.

If you are interested in other training classes we offer please go to the library training page for more information.

Professional Development: Free Online Courses for Those Working with Community Health

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The Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas has created the Community Tool Box. Here you’ll find lots of free materials such as online courses, toolkits, a training curriculum, and a database of best practices to support core skills in community work. These free online resources were developed for state and local health departments, hospital staff, community benefit programs, and community leaders and members.

The courses offered here will support your community health assessment and community health improvement work. The 8 courses are offered through TRAIN, a service of the Public Health Foundation. Free login required.

The 8 modules in the online courses include:
*Assuring Engagement in Community Health Improvement Efforts
*Identifying Community Health Needs and Assets
*Conducting Community Health Assessments
*Setting Community Priorities Based on Identified Issues
*Developing a Logic Model for Community Health Improvement
*Developing a Strategic Plan for Community Health Improvement
*Developing an Intervention
*Assuring Collaboration During Implementation

Be In the Know II: Social media for public health webinars free from the CDC

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In the Know is a live, interactive webcast series designed to provide the latest in social media to support public health success. Join:
In the Know II: What’s New in Social Media?
on Thursday, March 6 at 2 PM ET by registering for the webcast.

The webcast will offer public health practitioners a look at the latest features, functions, and practices on popular and emerging social media channels.

Learn more about:
* Latest updates from popular social media channels
* New and emerging social media sites

Use hashtag #sm4phExternal Web Site Policy on Twitter to follow the conversation and ask questions. You can also submit questions to info@cdcnpin.org.

View archived presentations on other social media topics such as Twitter, Gaming and Mobile, and Measurement and evaluation here. These are available as video recordings and slides.

The CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is the U.S. reference and referral service for information on HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB).

Online registration is available for this webinar.

View the previous webinars to learn about other social media tools.

New Books!

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The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:

1. An introduction to global health ethics. By Andrew Pinto and Ross Upshur. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2013.
Call number: RA441 .I58 2013.

2. Privacy, confidentiality, and health research. By William W Lowrance. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Call number: R864 .L69 2012.

3. Lecture notes. Epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and public health. By Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Sara Brookes, Matthew Hickman, et al. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
Call number: RA651 .F375 2013.

and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press (free registration required to download pdf):

4. Microbial Ecology in States of Health and Disease: Workshop Summary (2014). By Eileen Choffnes, LeighAnne Olsen, and Alison Mack, Rapporteurs; Forum on Microbial Health; Board on Global Health; Institute of Medicine.

5. Sustainable Diets: Food for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet: Workshop Summary (2014). By Leslie Pray, Rapporteur; Food Forum; Food and Nutrition Board; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Institute of Medicine.

6. Including Health in Global Frameworks for Development, Wealth, and Climate Change: Workshop Summary (2014). By Suzanne Landi, Rapporteur; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Institute of Medicine.

Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.

You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).

If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.

Vendor visit: ProQuest (pastry is involved)

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Representatives from ProQuest will be paying a visit on Tuesday, March 11 from 9:30-11 in 212/218 Doe Library. Here’s how they describe their visit:

Drop in for Coffee/Pastry and a chance to find out what?s new at ProQuest.

Account Manager Karen Bosserman and Western Regional Sales Director Brad Roades  will have literature and will provide individual demos for those interested in exploring some of the new Products PQ has to offer in the Humanities and Social Sciences and discuss some of spring promotions!

Come take a look at:

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: We are offering a special limited-time spring promotion on ProQuest Historical Newspapers for academic libraries worldwide! Come and see some of the great Newspapers we have to offer.  Including the newest Collections ?Historic Chinese Newspapers & South China Morning News?

Art & Architecture Archive: Country Life Now Added, Exclusive to ProQuest: We are proud to announce  Country Life magazine is now available in Art & Architecture Archive (AAA). This UK title, selected as the keystone of AAA based on student and researcher demand, adds primary source research material useful for late 19th and early 20th century British history and social studies.

Trench Journals and Unit Magazines: The Real History of the People?s War. Through the digitized pages of more than 1,500 magazines  written and published by service personnel involved in the Great War, Trench Journals provides scholars with unique perspectives to contract official histories of the conflict.  For libraries this rare and unique collection is a pertinent and high profile acquisition at a time of intense research interest in the 100th anniversary of the First World War.

This is just a sample of what is new!

Primary Sources: Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Digital Archive

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The Bancroft Library is pleased to announce the publication of the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Digital Archive.

The result of a two-year digitization project generously funded by the National Park Service as part of the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, the digital archive makes available nearly 100,000 original manuscript items from The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study initiated in 1942 at the University of California, Berkeley. This research project sought to document the mass internment of Japanese Americans by embedding Nisei social science students recruited from the Berkeley campus into selected internment sites.

 The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Digital Archive website provides access to this massive collection of research materials through various means, including textual searches and browsing options, visual mechanisms such as GIS tagging and interactive maps, a timeline, and pointers to related resources. The collection comprises daily journals, field reports, life histories, extensive correspondence between staff, evacuees, and others, and secondary research materials collected and compiled by the research staff.

Margo Padilla
Digital Project Archivist
The Bancroft Library