Healthcare Videos

Resources

The following is a list of websites useful in the study and teaching of epidemiology and other public health topics:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sites and Publications
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Global Communications Center
*CDC Foundation
Healthy People 2010
Office of Communication: Media Relations
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Outbreak Investigations - A Perspective
Viral Hepatitis: What Every Teenager Needs to Know

Medical Journals and Epidemiology Publications
Communicable Disease Report Weekly United Kingdom
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
The Lancet
New England Journal of Medicine Scientific American Weekly Epidemiologic Record
World Health Organization

Science and Health
Access Excellence
National Health Museum
http://www.accessexcellence.org/index.html

Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs
http://www.aehap.org

Bad Bug Book
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~MOW/intro.html

Detectives in the Classroom
Montclair State University
http://www.montclair.edu/detectives/

Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease
American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic

Health Insight: Taking Charge of Health Information
Harvard University
http://www.health-insight.harvard.edu/

Health Science Curriculum Online
National Institutes of Health
http://science-education.nih.gov/homepage.nsf

Howard Hughes Medical Institute http://www.hhmi.org

Classroom Activities

The following lesson plans are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Cont'd)

• High school lesson plan topics - Hantavirus (Cont'd)
  • What Did You Say? How Hearing Works (PDF)
    This lesson serves as an extension of a unit on waves that links the science of sound to the way that we hear. This lesson also investigates the role of hearing loss prevention as a way to improve public health. Students will wear earplugs while taking notes on vocabulary words, and then take a short vocabulary quiz as an exercise designed to show students what it might be like to have hearing loss. Next, students will generate a model of the process of hearing, and then complete a short group presentation on one of several hearing-related topics. This lesson is designed to be embedded within a unit on waves. This lesson should be introduced after students have an appropriate amount of background knowledge about waves.
• High School Lesson Plans - Hearing loss
  • 1-3-6 Plan! Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Fan! (PDF|PPT)
    Students learn about the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (EHDI) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), build a simple ear model, and use the ear model to observe how otoacoustic emission (OAE) screening can detect some types of hearing loss. This lesson would be a good addition to a unit on how the ear works.

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