Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 4 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to:
1. Encourage collaborations across communities and sectors.
2. Empower individuals toward making informed health decisions.
3. Measure the impact of prevention activities.
Patient education on many topics in many different languages. EthnoMed is an ethnic medicine website containing medical and cultural information about immigrant and refugee groups. EthnoMed is a joint program of the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries and Harborview Medical Center's Interpreter Services Department/Community House Calls Program (ISD/CHC).
This website features information, continuing education opportunities, resources, and more for health and health care professionals to learn about culturally and linguistically appropriate services, or CLAS. Launched in 2004, Think Cultural Health is sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
The Global Health Observatory theme pages provide data and analyses on global health priorities. Each theme page provides information on global situation and trends highlights, using core indicators, database views, major publications and links to relevant web pages on the theme.
