CDC AND ATSDR ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES FOR HEALTH OFFICERS

This article catalogues some of the Centers for Disease Control and Pr evention's (CDC's) more important information resource offerings, whic h make public health information accessible via computer and automated telephone systems and on electronic media (diskette and CD-ROM). We r eview mechanism for (1) finding and retrieving CDC reports, (2) queryi ng CDC's numeric data files, (3) transmitting surveillance and other d ata files to CDC, (4) exchanging electronic mail with CDC staff, and ( 5) disseminating state and local public health information and data us ing CDC tools. Each resource is followed with a section on how to obta in access to these resources.