{"id":1425,"date":"2018-02-24T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T00:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:12:10","slug":"public-health-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/2018\/02\/24\/public-health-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"

State agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dept. of Public Health (DPH)<\/a><\/p>\n

Dept. of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS)<\/a><\/p>\n

Dept. of Developmental Services (DDS)<\/a><\/p>\n

Office of the Healthcare Advocate (OHA)<\/a><\/p>\n

Office of Health Strategy (OHS)<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CT Healthcare Affordability Index<\/a><\/o>
\n <\/p>\n

State boards, commissions, and task forces<\/strong><\/p>\n

Council on Medical Assistance Program Oversight<\/a><\/p>\n

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Advisory Board<\/a><\/p>\n

Palliative Care Advisory Council<\/a><\/p>\n

Task Force to Study the Voluntary Services Program Operated by the Dept. of Children and Families<\/a><\/p>\n

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Federal government<\/strong><\/p>\n

National Institutes of Health (NIH)<\/a>, including the National Library of Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n

Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC)<\/a>, including the\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics<\/a><\/p>\n

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)<\/a><\/p>\n

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Other organizations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n

Mayo Clinic<\/a><\/p>\n

Urban Institute Health Policy Center<\/a><\/p>\n

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Other online resources<\/strong><\/p>\n

Expanding Access to Care<\/a> – Legislative Library research guide from the 2020 OLR Issues Conference<\/p>\n

Detox bed availability<\/a> – from DMHAS; “real-time” updates on bed availability for addiction services in Connecticut<\/p>\n

Healthy People 2030<\/a>\u00a0– from the federal\u00a0Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; includes health topic summaries, leading health indicators, data, webinars, and more<\/p>\n

MedlinePlus<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 from the National Library of Medicine; definitions, articles, illustrations, and videos about diseases and conditions, drugs, treatments, and other health topics<\/p>\n

PLACES<\/a>\u00a0– from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation; includes an interactive map of various health data measures by geographic areas such as Census tracts.<\/p>\n

RAND Corporation research on public health<\/a><\/p>\n

Research guides by the Judicial Branch Law Libraries:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connecticut law about commitment (voluntary\/involuntary)<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connecticut law about drug crimes<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connecticut law about funerals and cremation<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connecticut law about health care<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connecticut law about involuntary medication<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connecticut law about medical malpractice<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connecticut law about medical marijuana<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connecticut law about quarantine<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connecticut law about smoking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State agencies Dept. of Public Health (DPH) Dept. of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) Dept. of Developmental Services (DDS) Office of the Healthcare Advocate (OHA) Office of Health Strategy (OHS) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CT Healthcare Affordability Index   State boards, commissions, and task forces Council on Medical Assistance Program Oversight Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Advisory Board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8752,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/8752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/lib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}