About Public Healthy
Public Healthy was set up in June 2005. It is designed and written
by Dr Tom Porter. A sitemap is available
here.
The information on this site is intended for health professionals.
If you are a member of the public or a patient and have any queries about
specific health problems you are advised to see your General Practitioner or
call NHS Direct on 0845 46 47 (UK
only).
Frequently asked questions
An FAQ page is available here.
Before starting out in public health I found it difficult to discover
more about the speciality and training so I set up this site to help others
in my situation. My aim is to provide relevant up-to-date
information from the perspective of a Specialist Registrar in Public Health,
to assist people considering PH as a career and those already training or
practising in it. Let me know if you think I'm achieving my aims by
leaving some feedback! I've answered a few
questions about the website itself here.
We hope you enjoy using this website. If you have any comments or
criticisms please let me know. Some people
have been kind enough to praise the site - thank
you!
Thank you to my wife Fleur for her continuing encouragement and support
for the site.
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Healthy is accredited by the
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DOI is a way of referencing journal papers. The advantage over
the traditional author journal volume: pages method is that it can be
used for the increasingly common 'online first' or 'e-publication ahead of
print' documents which are otherwise difficult to reference. Because
the system is relatively new, not all publishers use it yet and there is
sometimes a delay in the link becoming 'live'. However it is likely
that this or an equivalent system will predominate in the near future.
To maintain constancy of links to papers (and other internet content) an
independent database holds the latest URL for the particular content.
Typing the DOI reference (e.g. 10.1126/science.1121586) into the
DOI page will automatically forward you to
the content, no matter where it is stored on the internet.
Public Healthy.com automatically forwards you via the DOI system to the
correct URL when a DOI is given in the reference.
More information on DOI
(International DOI Foundation, January 2006)
Public Healthy.com is copyright © T Porter 2008.
Material on the Public Healthy.com website is also covered by a
Creative
Commons Developing Nations licence (see icon, right).
Errors and omissions excepted. All information on Public
Healthy.com is provided to the best of my knowledge but should not be solely
relied upon in critical decision-making, and Public Healthy.com cannot
accept responsibility for any actions taken as a result of information
presented here. Trademarks are the property of their respective
owners. Public Healthy.com is not responsible for the content of
external websites. If you believe any sites are linked to in error or
your site is linked to and you would like the link removed, please
contact me.
Please feel free to link to Public Healthy.com.
This site was created in Microsoft Expression Web and tested for
compatibility with
IE7
and Firefox 3. If you have any problems viewing Public Healthy.com please
contact me. Pages are compliant with
XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.0.
Public Healthy is designed to be available to as many people as possible.
All pages feature a 'simple' layout option (see top right corner of each
page), and pages are designed using CSS which should aid visitors with
screenreaders. Both
IE7
and Firefox 3 allow you to
increase the size of the text visible on the page.