Resources to Help You Learn More

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System - Training
<http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/training.htm>
CDC provides several training options from a 37-slide easy-to-understand Overview to a complete Operational and Users guide.

Glossary
<http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/glossary/default.asp?Letter=ALL&Language=English>
This glossary explains terms found on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services web site.

Glossary of Epidemiology Terms
<http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/EpiGlossary/glossary.htm>
Developed by CDC for the Internet. The Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2nd edition, edited by J.M. Last, was helpful in providing a number of the definitions, according to the web site.

Glossary of Terms
<http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/en/partner_glossary_e.html>
Canadian Institute for Health Information.

NCHS Definitions
<http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/nchsdefs/list.htm>
An alphabetical listing of many terms used at NCHS.

Online Trainings Available From The North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness
<http://www.sph.unc.edu/nccphp/training/training_list/>
Free short audio self-study tutorials are available on the following topics: Acute Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation, Biostatistics, Bioterrorist Agents, Emerging and Reemerging Disease Agents, Epidemiology Methods, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and a general section on Tools.

Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC)
<http://www.resdac.umn.edu/Index.asp>
Provides technical assistance to researchers interested in using Medicare and/or Medicaid data.

State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC)
<http://www.shadac.org/>
SHADAC, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, helps states monitor rates of health insurance coverage and to understand factors associated with uninsurance. SHADAC provides targeted policy analysis and technical assistance to states that are conducting their own health insurance surveys and/or using data from national surveys.

TOXNET Training Manual – SIS, NLM
<http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/manulas.html>