LCDC lauches website :
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc
Information dissemination took a new turn at the Laboratory Centre for
Disease Control (LCDC) with the launch of the LCDC World Wide Web site on
the Internet October 24. It is part of Health Canada's Canadian Health
Network website.
The purpose of the site is to provide public health information to LCDC's
clients around the world, around the clock. The site contains an organized
collection of disease surveillance documents, including publications, disease
prevention guidelines, travel health advisories and facts and figures on various
disease conditions. Information on LCDC programs, projects and events, and
links to other sites and partners are presented in an easily navigable format.
The site will be updated regularly, so the most current information on emerging
issues will be accessible.
All material on the website is available in both English and French; there
are links on every page to the other language. There are also plenty of hot
links to other national and international sites. This means you simply click
your mouse on an icon or a highlighted word, and you are automatically connected
to the chosen site. Material from all over the world will be available this
way.
LCDC regular publications presented are the newsletters CHIRPP News,
Farm Family Health and Measles Update; the scientific journals
Canada Communicable Disease Report and Chronic Diseases in Canada;
and the quarterly and annual AIDS in Canada reports.
Along with CHIRPP News, the Child Injury Division has posted various
previously published injury reports and the brochure CHIRPP: A unique source
of child injury information. There are also plans to present other related
information on injury. You can get to the Child Injury Division information
directly at http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/brch/injury.html
Those who do not want or cannot get this electronic access need not worry:
there are no plans to discontinue publishing CHIRPP News and other
injury documents in printed form. However, with the electronic dissemination
of health information, we have achieved what was impossible with printed information.
We now have the ability to quickly distribute a vast array of timely information
to millions of public health partners worldwide.
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