Public Health Links and Resources

Links to Information-Rich Websites

Boston Public Health Commission
The public health department for the City of Boston. Website provides information on programs, press releases, reports in pdf format, a directory of Boston-area community health centers and links.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health
The Commonwealth’s public health department. Website provides statistics and publications in pdf format on Massachusetts public health issues, press releases, links and information on programs.

Massachusetts Community Information Profile --MassCHIP
An information service that provides free, online access to many health and social indicators. Provides community-level data to assess health needs, monitor health status indicators, and evaluate health programs.

Massachusetts Office of Health and Human Services
Website provides information on a wide variety of Massachusetts health policy issues, a searchable state provider database, as well as program and initiative information and press releases.

US Department of Health and Human Services
Website provides information, publications, research, and statistics on a wide variety of health and national health policy issues, as well as program information and press releases.

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Focuses on health care issues, particularly policy, public education, and health and development. Website provides a state-by-state searchable database of relevant statistics, pdf publications and news releases, and information on events, programs, and initiatives.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
RWJF makes grants to improve the health and health care of all Americans.

Kids Count
A national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States.

FedStats
The gateway to statistics from over 100 US Federal agencies.

Population Reference Bureau
A non-profit organization that provides objective information on US and international population trends. Website provides searchable population and health data, educator and journalist resource guides, ordering information on PRB publications, and information on events and programs. Some information in French and Spanish.

World Health Organization
The United Nations specialized agency for health. Website provides a WHO publications library database and health-related epidemiological and statistical information throughout the world.

Children’s Defense Fund
Advocates for the well-being and healthy development of children.

National Center for Health Statistics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Government agencies which provide information and news about health in America.

Child Trends, Inc.
A non-profit, non-partisan organization which conducts research and provides science-based information to improve decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and families.

Resources: Ways to Get More Involved

NeighborWalk

Health Care for All

Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers