For the past 125 years, the American Public Health Association (APHA) has influenced the policy-making process at the local and national level in its efforts to prevent disease and promote health. Some of the organization's primary interests include issues such as environmental health, professional education in public health, and lobbying for a smoke-free society. The Association's main...

Diarrhea has long challenged world health workers. From 1980 to 1995, Healthlink Worldwide published _Dialogue on Diarrhoea_, an international newsletter that provided health workers and managers with practical advice on treating and preventing diarrheal diseases. Produced by the Rehydration Project, this website contains all 60 issues and 16 supplements of the publication over its 15-year run. In...

The National Library of Medicine has the world's largest collection of poster art dealing with questions of health in the United States, so it would stand to reason that it would be able to sponsor a fine online collection of the various ways in which visual culture has been used to inform the general public about a number of health concerns ranging from lead poisoning to tuberculosis. Visitors to...