information that might improve the
health of San Francisco's population
The forces that determine our health are complex, but they're mostly local. What do we know about health in San Francisco? What might be done with this information to decrease the burden of disease and injury in San Francisco? Answers to these questions will be explored here. (San Francisco's innovative health care access program is the topic of another web site, Healthy San Francisco.)
| Current Projects | |
| Draft for site that will depict the Determinants of Health in San Francisco. This site also serves as a repository of information that is being used in creating the SF Dept of Public Health's Prevention Framework. | |
| African American health in San Francisco | |
| Guideline for the Treatment of Hypertension (created under the auspices of the Pharmacy Council of the Community Health Network of San Francisco) | |
| Draft site for the Community Health Promotion & Prevention Branch of the San Francisco Department of Public Health | |
| Finding Health Information on the Web, a handout and Web page from a training that is routinely given at the San Francisco Department of Public Health by Brian Katcher. | |
| Description of the San Francisco's Alcohol Deemed Approved Ordinance | |
| Web-based version (not PowerPoint) of What is Public Health? | |
| Resources | |
| Premature mortalily in Years of Life Lost for San Francisco by sex and ethnicity, 2003-4. Includes detailed methods. [PDF: "Calculating Expected Years of Life Lost to Rank the Leading Causes of Premature Death in San Francisco"] | |
| Farmers Markets (Mercados Agrícolas) in San Francisco (updated Summer 2006) | |
| Physical Activity resources in San Francisco [PDF, courtesy of California 5 a Day] | |
| Health Outcomes in San Francisco | |
| A broad perspective on health, recently published in the New England Jouranal of Medicine: Shattuck Lecture. We can do better--improving the health of the American people. | |
| Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce | |
| MEDLINE Interfaces and Related Resources (Appendix to MEDLINE Book) | |
| Moved, After Development Here | |
| "Looking Back at the Public's Health After the 1906 Earthquake & Fire" was moved to the San Francisco Department of Public Health's website and is being re-integrated into the new website design. | |
| The California Injury Prevention Network's Web site, developed by a state-wide group under the auspices of a grant to the SF Dept of Public Health and the SF Injury Center, is being taken over by the state. It will soon be moved. | |
| "San Francisco Pharmacists & Biological Threats" has been replaced with the SF Dept of Public Health's Communicable Disease Control & Prevention website. Another excellent local resource for preparing for biological threats is the Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. | |
last updated 1 May 2008
please send suggestions/comments to brian[replace with @-sign]healthysf.org