For additional information on hospital-acquired infections, please refer to the following two articles submitted to the Commission by William R. Jarvis, MD from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

         http://www.lhc.ca.gov/lhcdir/pubhealth/Jarvis.pdf
         http://www.lhc.ca.gov/lhcdir/pubhealth/JarvisEditorial.pdf
 

The following web site, a product of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and ASTHO affiliates, provides information on state public health models.  Washington and Minnesota are two states ASTHO noted as models to learn from.  Others have cited Alabama, Texas, Oregon and Pennsylvania. The web site is designed to facilitate the dissemination of basic state-based public health information.

http://www.statepublichealth.org

The Institute of Medicine has published an update to its 1988 report The Future of Public Health.  The report, The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century, can be read online at:

http://www.nap.edu/books/030908704X/html/

The Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal of the CDC issued an article on border surveillance in its January 2003 issue titled, The U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project: Establishing Bi-national Border Surveillance.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no1/pdfs/02-0047.pdf

Health Officers Association of California (HOAC).  By clicking on their "issues" button, articles of interest may be found, for instance, on Israel's approach to public health preparedness.

http://www.calhealthofficers.org/

RAND's health web site is another good resource for those interested in further reading.

http://www.rand.org/health/

Further links can be accessed via HOAC's home page by clicking on the "links and references" button at http://www.calhealthofficers.org/.

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