Blog Excellent Content Award is presented to those
blogs whose content provides useful, instructive information, shows superior design and has achieved levels of excellence deserving of recognition. San Diego real estate blog
August 31, 2019 - International Overdose Awareness Day
It is hard to believe that it has been 20 years since I published the first webpages that turned into this Web site. Many thanks to the thousands of visitors who contributed millions of hits during the past 20 years, and for all the nice comments along the way. I will continue to strive to make this Web site a worthwhile place to spend your time and find credible public health and health information. Thank you so much!
August 24, 2019 - Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids, by type of Opioid, US 2000-2015
August 21, 2019 - Remembering the August 21, 2017 Solar Eclipse
Graphic source: http://eclipse2017.nasa.gov
Graphic created from: http://gatehouseprojects.com/eclipse/Solar-Eclipse/site/thetimesnews.com
Graphic source: http://earthsky.org/tonight/total-solar-eclipse-on-august-21
See the tiny black dot crossing the United States in this this animation of the August 21 solar eclipse? It�s only here that you can see a total eclipse of the sun. But everyplace within the much larger gray circle will see a partial eclipse
It is hard to believe that it has been 19 years since I published the first webpages that turned into this Web site. Many thanks to the thousands of visitors who contributed millions of hits during the past 19 years, and for all the nice comments along the way. I will continue to strive to make this Web site a worthwhile place to spend your time and find credible public health and health information. Thank you so much!
March 1, 2012 - THANK YOU!!!
February 1, 2012 - Betty C. Jung's Web site is a Healthy People Consortium Organization
I have always supported Healthy People's goals and objectives. Now, as a Healthy People Consortium Organization I will continue to do so in a more focused way.
"The Consortium is a diverse, motivated group of agencies and organizations committed to achieving Healthy People 2020 goals and objectives." http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/consortium/default.aspx
I will continue to add new links to and post pertinent updates on my Public Health Blog.
For starters, click on "Map-It" graphic for "MAP-IT: A Guide To Using Healthy People 2020 in Your Community." Also, check out: Healthy People 2020 program planning tools, a toolkit for program development!
All statistics to be updated can be found on all the Site Map Pages, the Web Site Statistics Page. This is done monthly, usually near the beginning of each month.
Academic Resources Your brain doesn’t recharge if you use your phone on break;
Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries;
Chronic Disease Index Multimorbidity-Weighted Index; The States with the Worst Eating and Exercise Habits in America; A Practical Approach to Low-Dose #Aspirin for Primary Prevention;
Health, United States Spotlight: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart Disease;
THE MESA APP-ESTIMATING YOUR RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE WITH AND WITHOUT CORONARY CALCIUM SCORE; MESA 10-Year CHD Risk with Coronary Artery Calcification;
Favorite Music Sites Does Listening to Music Stimulate Creative Thinking, or Stifle It?; Music can be a viable alternative to medications in reducing anxiety before anesthesia;
Public Health Sites O-Z How The 5 Steps Can Help Someone Who is Suicidal #BeThe1To; Teens are increasingly depressed, anxious, and suicidal. How can we help?; PAIN IN THE NATION: Building a National Resilience Strategy Alcohol and Drug Misuse and Suicide and the Millennial Generation — a Devastating Impact; Wellness culture's obsession with Fitbits, 23andMe and data isn't necessarily making us healthier;
Public Health Software Scribblemaps.com; National Geographic Mapmaker Interactive; Maptive.com; Zeemaps.com;
Research Resources on the Net People's motivations bias how they gather information. A person will gather less data before reaching a conclusion they wished was true all along; Randomization and Bias in Cancer Clinical Trials; Online demonstration tool that allows people to estimate how likely they are to be traced from anonymous data; Odds stacked against privacy, study shows. Giving personal data anonymously doesn’t mean you can’t be identified – in all probability;
Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database; The science that’s never been cited
Nature investigates how many papers really end up without a single citation; Citation Manipulation;
Statistical Procedures Odds stacked against privacy, study shows. Giving personal data anonymously doesn't mean you can't be identified. in all probability. Online demonstration tool that allows people to estimate how likely they are to be traced from anonymous data. ; Anonymised data isn't nearly anonymous enough – here’s how we fix it;
Scientists find thirdhand smoke affects cells in humans; Vaping is hurting teenage athletes, dashing their future in sports. "The moment I started using nicotine, it turned off my future goals completely."; Secondhand Vaping: What Risks Does Aerosol From E-Cigarettes Pose for Kids? Research finds parents more likely to vape around kids in the home and car, despite smoke-free policies; . Thirdhand Smoke Resource Center; UC Riverside Researchers Show Thirdhand Smoke Exposure Damages Human Cells; State-Specific Prevalence of Quit Attempts Among Adult Cigarette Smokers — United States, 2011–2017; Know the Risks: A Youth Guide to E-cigarettes; Vaping Tied to Rise in Stroke, Heart Attack Risk; Reasons for Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students — National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2016;
US Government Statistics Generation Z Characteristics: 5 Infographics on the Gen Z Lifestyle; Updated Budget Projections: 2019 to 2029 CBO.gov May 2019;
A Visual Summary of An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to 2029 CBO.gov August 2019;
Naloxone
Useful Sites 2020 CDC Yellow Book for International Travel; Flight Tracker Apps That'll Make Your Next Trip Less Stressful;
Writing Google Is Trying to Teach Kids How to Spot Fake News. The death of fake news might just be the birth of a generation that’s immune to it; New section: DeepFake; What Is a Deepfake, and Should I Be Concerned?; Lazy thinking, not political bias, drives fake news; Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their reliability; NewsGuard - Restoring Trust & Accountability; The 50 most overused business cliches;
Career Resources The Dunning Kruger Effect: Why Your Coworkers Believe They're Way Smarter Than They Actually Are;Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments; 110+ Free Resume Templates For Word;
Links to public health pages, SCSU Thesis/Special Project documents and forms, SCSU Public Health Alumni Pages - MPH Accreditation Committee, Scholarship Committee, Service Committee (Mentor, Speaker Programs) pages; MPH Alumni Record - Main, Accomplishments, Presentations, Professional organizations, Programs & Projects, Teaching, Written Works pages
Are you interested in keeping up with what's going with on in the world of Public Health? Subscribe now!!! Inaugurated 10/13/2000, E-News goes out on the 15th of every month!
The Public Health Jobs Electronic Mailing List is doing well. Anticipate approximately weekly listings of approximately 100 jobs arriving in your E-mailbox!
