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)

• Middle School Lesson Plans - Child Development
  • Does Early Intervention Make a Difference (PDF)
    Students will analyze and describe graphs relating to early childhood development programs and use this analysis to formulate conclusions and inferences based on the data. Students will investigate risk factors for early childhood development and use this information to prepare a calendar of activities to enhance early development.
• High School - Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
  • Full Circle Advertising: A Look at Teen Alcohol Use and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome [PDF | PowerPoint Presentation1]
    This lesson introduces students to one consequence of alcohol abuse, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Students will also investigate alcohol advertisements and determine the impact these advertisements have on their behavior. Finally, the students will use what they have learned about advertising to develop new advertisements aimed at preventing FAS.
• Middle School Lesson Plans - Fetal alcohol syndrome
  • How to Change the World [PDF | PowerPoint Presentation1| PowerPoint Presentation 2]
    This presentation will talk about a very important topic – health. How can we improve the health of the public? We will talk about some examples of improvements, discuss how we figure out ways to improve health, and learn about prevention and intervention – the ways that we improve health. We’ll also learn about four tools for improving public health – health communication, policy development, providing services, and engineered solutions.
• Middle school lesson plan topics - folic acid
  • Folic Acid Health Campaign (PDF)
    In this lesson students learn about the importance of folic acid in birth defects prevention.  Students apply the information they gain through this lesson to design a public awareness campaign. They then present their designs to the class.
• High school lesson plan topics - Folic Acid
  • Human Embryo Development and Birth Defects (PDF and PPT - WinZip)
    Students will research the different stages of human embryo development. Next, the teacher will give a PowerPoint presentation about a category of birth defects known as neural tube defects (NTDs) and the relationship between NTDs and embryo development. Students then work in groups to research other birth defects and create and present a PowerPoint presentation to the class.
• Middle School Lesson Plans - Hantavirus
  • Rodent Borne Diseases: Getting the Facts Out There (PDF)
    In this lesson, students will research one aspect of either hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) or lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCMV). Students will use what they learn during their research to produce a public service announcement in the form of a brochure, poster, radio announcement or television commercial. This lesson is for use after students have covered the basics of viruses, viral infection, and immunology. Students should know what a virus is, the basic methods of transmission, and how the human immune system reacts to infection by a virus. This lesson is suitable for students in grades 6–10 and could be used in a science, health, or health science technology course
• High school lesson plan topics - Hantavirus
  • The Hantavirus Haunting: Solving The Case (PDF)
    This lesson is for a high school introductory biology class. Students will take part in a scientific investigation of a 1993 hantavirus outbreak and learn how to prevent hantavirus infection.
  • Cochlear Implants: The Complex Debate (PDF | PPT)
    In this lesson, students examine issues surrounding the use of cochlear implants as an intervention for infant hearing loss. They will represent the perspective of advocates, parents, audiologists, and physicians in a group discussion about a parent’s choice to have his or her child receive a cochlear implant. A cochlear implant is a surgically placed electronic device designed to stimulate hearing in children and adults who have severe to profound hearing loss and can derive little or no benefit from hearing aids. Through research and discussion, students will explore the social, medical, and psychological impacts of infant hearing loss and cochlear implant use.

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