National Public Health Week is April 4-10, 2022! 

Posted by Miles Dietz-Castel on April 6th, 2022 Posted in: Blog
Tags: National Public Health Week

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National Public Health Week is April 4-10, 2022! 

Did you know that many NNLM member organizations are public health departments and organizations? Membership is free. Members are eligible for: NNLM funding, access to training, partnership opportunities, educational and printed materials, NLM Traveling Exhibitions, and institutional recognition as a Network Member.  

Free resources for public health professionals include:  

Continuing Education Courses, such as:  

• How PubMed Works: Introduction, April 6, 2022
• How PubMed Works: Selection, April 8, 2022 
• Making Sense of Numbers, April 12, 2022 
• How PubMed Works: MeSH, April 12, 2022 
• How PubMed Works: ATM, April 15, 2022 
• Empowering Your Community: Using Health Literacy to Help Patients Become Their Own Health Advocate, April 19, 2022 
• Grants and Proposal Writing – On Demand 
• Health Literacy On Demand 

Full class catalog at https://nnlm.gov/training 

Databases:

MedlinePlus®
Consumer health information in English and Spanish including diseases, wellness topics, drugs, genetics, tests, herbs, supplements, news, and videos. Includes a collection of patient education materials in over 55 languages. 
https://www.medlineplus.gov 
Spanish: https://www.medlineplus.gov/spanish  

MedlinePlus Connect
Free service for health IT systems, patient portals, and electronic health records (EHRs) to link to targeted, consumer-friendly patient information from MedlinePlus.  
https://www.medlineplus.gov/connect  

PubMed®/MEDLINE®
Bibliographic database comprising over 32 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov   

PubMed Central®
Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/  

NLM Learning Resources Database
Collection of educational training materials created by NLM. Includes videos, tutorials, and webinars. Institutions can use the API to auto-populate NLM learning resources on their Web site. https://learn.nlm.nih.gov  

ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry and results database of publicly- and privately-supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world. 
https://clinicaltrials.gov  

DailyMed®
Searchable database of the most recent drug labels (also called package inserts) submitted to the FDA.  
https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/index.cfm   

HIVinfo®
Resource offering access to the latest, federally approved HIV/AIDS medical practice guidelines, HIV treatment and prevention clinical trials, and other research information for health care providers, researchers, people affected by HIV/AIDS, and the general public. 
https://hivinfo.nih.gov/home-page 
Spanish: https://hivinfo.nih.gov/es/home-page   

Bookshelf 
A collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly or from linked data in other NCBI databases. The collection includes biomedical textbooks, other scientific titles, genetic resources such as GeneReviews, and NCBI help manuals. 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books