From larsson@u.washington.edu Wed Nov 17 07:47:50 1999 Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA25668 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:47:49 -0800 Received: from homer15.u.washington.edu (larsson@homer15.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.16]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA16018 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:47:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (larsson@localhost) by homer15.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA114862 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:47:46 -0800 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:47:46 -0800 (PST) From: Laura Larsson To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Subject: Website of Interest Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Friends: I cannot remember if this site was mentioned on this list, but the World Health Organization, Communicable Disease Surveillance and response page, has a lovely set of GIS-public health related links that look quite useful for giving public health practitioners an overview of GIS and what it can do in public health. It also links you to HEALTH-GIS, an electronic discussion group that I'm sure many of you subscribe to already. The list is sponsored by HealthMap, a decision-support tool for PHPs. Links to Tools and Resources, Collaborating Partners, Interactive Maps, and so on are also linked. The link: http://www.who.int/emc/healthmap/healthmap.html Regards, Laura Larsson Health Services, University of Washington listowner: PHNUTR-L, PHNURSES, PNWHEALTH, PHSW, HSR-L + http://depts.washington.edu/hserv/hshome.html http://depts.washington.edu/hsic/hshome.html "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. " Alvin Toffler .