The Public Health Information Data Tutorial, is a new tool designed to help the public health workforce effectively locate and use health information.

It is produced by the National Library of Medicine, University of Michigan Public Health Library & Informatics Division, and Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce.

The tutorial is made up of four modules:
Staying Informed
Health Education Resources
Health Statistics
Evidence Based Public Health

"In these modules, users can learn how to build a plan to stay informed about developments and events related to public health, find reliable and authoritative consumer-oriented materials to support health education goals, retrieve statistical information, access data sets relevant to public health, and use information in support of evidence-based practice," commented Marjorie A. Cahn, head of the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), NLM's lead office in the creation of the tutorial.

The Public Health Information and Data Tutorial captures these critical strategies employed by information specialists in the field to locate and manage public health information in an easily accessibly online format.

For more information check out http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/phitutorial.html