NALBOH HOME PUBLIC HEALTH ON THE WEB INDEX MEMBERS ONLY SECTION

ADA Technical Assistance Program
The ADA Technical Assistance Program provides informational resources that support the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA). The site contains information on local Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTAC), and links to publications, federal agencies, other sites of interest and the ADA.

Arc
The Arc is the leading national organization on mental retardation. It provides "organization support to affiliated chapters, and represents the membership on advocacy and programmatic issues pertaining to mental retardation." The have a really great list of Disability-Related Sites on the World Wide Web.

Links to Other Disability Resources
This site, from Syracuse University School of Education, arranges links to other disability-related web sites into the following categories: community living & inclusion; disability research, policy and practice; disability rights, self-advocacy, and identity; national and international disability organizations.

Health Consumer Alliance
"HCA is a partnership of consumer assistance programs operated by community-based legal services organizations. Our common mission is to help low-income people obtain essential health care." This site has consumer resources, advocate resources, publication, information on children & youths, managed care, disability, and pages in numerous foreign languages (e.g. Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Spanish). Although this program focuses on California, it may provide a useful tool for other states.

Health Poll Search
Health Poll Search is a searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues that allows users to know what Americans think about health issues, as well as what Americans have thought about health issues over time. Health Poll Search is the result of a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut. The Roper Center houses an archive of more than 350,000 public opinion questions dating back to 1935. The Health Poll Search archive covers 29 topics and more than 300 subtopics, and holds more than 60,000 questions on health issues from health care surveys that have included questions on health. These questions provide information on public perceptions of HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, health policy and health reform, Medicare and Medicaid, women's health, the uninsured, minority health, and children's health. Response percentages and source information are provided for all questions.

National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
Part of the US Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), the NIDRR "conducts comprehensive and coordinated programs of research and related activities to maximize the full inclusion, social integration, employment, and independent living of disabled individuals of all ages. Balanced between the scientific and consumer communities, NIDRR plays a unique role in federally funded research activities. In addition, NIDRR’s work helps to more fully integrate disability research into the mainstream of our nation’s policies regarding science and technology, health care, and economics."

To report broken or dead-end links or to suggest a link NALBOH's Public Health Directory, please contact the NALBOH Webmaster. The provision of these links does not constitute an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation by NALBOH with respect to such sites, their owners, or their providers. NALBOH encourages users to verify all information before using or relying upon the content contained in these web pages.