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Title: News, Views and Web Sites

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Section/SPIG: Health Administration

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This section is intended to help you with news and Web sites that you can use in your work.

What's New(s) on...?

This section links you to Web sites that have information useful to those working in health administration. To visit the site, just click on the underlined link. Valuable resources all. These links will remain as part of the Newsletter. Keep in mind that some of the links might take a few seconds to load as they are doing searches of very large databases – and that takes time).

What's New on the APHA Web Site? <http://www.apha.org/news/>
What’s New on the AHRQ Web Site? <http://www.ahrq.gov/whatsnew.htm>
What’s New on the DHHS Web Site? <http://www.dhhs.gov/news/press/2004.html> DHHS Reference Collection? <http://www.dhhs.gov/reference/index.shtml>
What’s New in Medicine and Public Health on the National Academy Press Web Site? <http://books.nap.edu/v3/makepage.phtml?val1=subject&val2=ms>
What’s New at the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™? <http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/whatsnew/newthisweek.aspx>
What's New on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Web Site? <http://www.jcaho.org/news%2Broom/index.htm>
What’s New in the Grey Literature (New York Academy of Medicine)? <http://www.nyam.org/library/glrv5n4.shtml>
What's New in Health Administration on the Yahoo! Web Site? <http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Health_Administration/>
What's New in Healthcare Management on Google? <http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/Healthcare/Healthcare_Management/> New this month
What's New in PubMed on Organization and Administration in Public Health? <http://tinyurl.com/4tsnk>
Note: APHA's system may break this URL. Be sure to cut and paste all elements of the URL into your browser.

Reducing Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities

The National Business Group on Health, formerly the Washington Business Group on Health, has "developed an employer toolkit to provide companies with culturally competent resources, best management practices and assessment tools to reduce and eliminate health disparities."

The kit is divided into four sections full of information, pertinent findings and strategies that the Business Group will update and expand upon on an ongoing basis. The sections include the following: Overview; Key Facts and Information; Important Findings; and, Strategies and Solutions. The Overview section contains general information about the National Business Group on Health and the Business Group's Health Disparities Initiative, and the Initiative's Employer Council and Technical Advisory Board members. Two Issue Briefs and an analysis paper form the Key Facts section. The Findings and Strategies and Solutions section contain a variety of documents and surveys (and their results). Site URL: http://www.businessgrouphealth.org/prevention/employer_toolkit.cfm .

National Network of Public Health Institutes

Public Health Institutes are "nonprofit, multi-sector entities that rely upon partnerships and collaborations between federal, state, and local public health agencies, universities, foundations, and other health-related organizations to foster innovations that improve health." Get information about the NNPHI, a calendar of events, conferences and training, their monthly newsletter, reports, member list, partners, forums and a file library. Site URL: http://www.nnphi.org.

State Fact Sheets (ERS)

The ERS State Fact Sheets contain frequently requested data for each state and for the total United States. These include current data on population, per-capita income, earnings per job, poverty rates, employment, unemployment, farm and farm-related jobs, farm characteristics, farm financial characteristics, top agricultural commodities, top export commodities, and the top counties in agricultural sales.

The ERS State Fact Sheets have been updated with more recent data on Farm and Farm Related Employment. In addition, the Population, Income, and Employment data now reflect the June 2003 metro and nonmetro definitions.
Released Friday, April 2, 2004. Site URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/StateFacts/ .

Source: USDA ERS Update Monday, March 29, 2004 to Friday, April 2, 2004