Tag: New Public Health Resources

Do you need to find the infant natality or mortality rates by race? The percent of babies who are breast fed? The ten leading causes of death? The percent who smoke, or who are obese? All this and much more can be found in the newly released 2016 edition of Health, United States.

This year’s report features a chartbook of long-term trends in health and healthcare delivery over the past 40 years. From declines in cigarette smoking and increases in prescription drug use to changes in expenditures for hospitals and home health care, the annual report also explores population changes that have affected patterns of disease, as well as healthcare access and use since 1975.

You’ll find the latest Health, United States report on the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics web page.

All Americans, at some point in their lives, are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Some people are more affected by climate change than others because of factors like where they live; their age, health, income, and occupation; and how they go about their day-to-day lives. Understanding the threats that climate change poses to human health can help us work together to lower risks and be prepared.

EPA has developed communication materials that summarize key points from the U.S. Climate and Health Assessment for eight different populations that are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts. The agency is providing these materials for use and modification for anyone seeking to communicate the health impacts of climate change to a range of audiences.

You can read the interagency report The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment that these communication sheets were drawn from online as well.

Are you interested in measuring the core features and qualities of the built environment that affect health, especially walking, biking, and other types of physical activity? Could you use a tool to help you assess a core set of the most relevant features? Then check out this online guide!

The manual was developed by ICF International through a contract with the CDC’s Division of Community Health. It includes the DCH Built Environment Assessment Tool, instructions, and a data coding and scoring table.

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

1. Toxic safety: flame retardants, chemical controversies, and environmental health. By Alissa Cordner. New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.
Call number: TD428.F57 C67 2016
See the table of contents, a description, reviews, and a sample chapter at the publisher’s website.

2. Qualitative research design: an interactive approach. By Joseph A. Maxwell. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 2013.
Call number: Q180.55.M4 M39 2013
Read a description, table of content, reviews and sample chapters at the publisher’s website.

and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press:

4. Exploring Shared Value in Global Health and Safety: Workshop Summary. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016.

5. Reaching and Investing in Children at the Margins: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Open Society Foundations; and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA).The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016.

6. The Nation’s Medical Countermeasure Stockpile: Opportunities to Improve the Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Sustainability of the CDC Strategic National Stockpile: Workshop Summary. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016.

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.

The Public Health Library has the following new books available:

1. Methods in field epidemiology. By Pia D. M. MacDonald. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning; Washington, DC: APHA Press, 2012. Call number: RA652.2.C55 M33 2012.

2. Human toxicology of chemical mixtures: toxic consequences beyond the impact of one-component product and environmental exposures. 2nd ed. By Harold I. Zeliger. Amsterdam; Boston: William Andrew/Elsevier, 2011. Call number: RA1219.3.Z45 2011.

3. Tolerance to environmental contaminants. By Michele Romeo, et al. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011. Call number: QH545.A1 T65 2011.

4. Chemical food safety. By Leon Brimer. Nosworthy Way, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK; Cambridge, MA: CABI, 2011. Call number: RA1258.B75 2011.

5. Testing baby: the transformation of newborn screening, parenting, and policy making. By Rachel Grob. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011. Call number: RJ255.5.G76 2011.

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.

Here you can find links to information from FEMA, the American Red Cross, US DHHS, and the CDC among others. There are links to information on emergency responders, hospitals, cleanup safety, chemical emergencies and epidemiologic surveillance among much more. There are a few pre-done PubMed searches including ones for disasters and hazardous chemicals, disasters and waster management and molds and mildew.

To access it, please go to our Environmental Resources web page at:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/environment.html