Access Arkansas
Arkansas.gov
http://www.accessarkansas.org/
The State of Arkansas website where local government, community, and education resources are available.

Act 1220
DHHS
http://www.healthyarkansas.com/advisory_committee/pdf/act1220.pdf
An Act to create a Child Health Advisory Committee; to coordinate Statewide efforts to combat childhood obestiy and related illnesses; to improve the health of the next generation of Arkansans.

Act 13 of 2006
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/acts/2006S1/public/act13.pdf
An Act to Protect Children Restrained in Child Passenger Safety Seats in Arkansas from Secondhand Smoke; and for Other Purposes.

Act 8 of 2006
http://www.arcleanair.com/pdf/act8.pdf
An act to protect workers in arkansas from secondhand smoke in the workplace, and an act to protect the citizens of arkansas from secondhand smoke in public places.

Arkansas Code
ARKLEG
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/NXT/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=blr:code
The code that is provided on this site is an unofficial posting of the Arkansas Code. The files making up this Internet version of the Arkansas Code do not constitute the official text of the Arkansas Code and are intended for informational purposes only.

Arkansas Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool
CHIP
http://www.chiparkansas.org/
The Arkansas Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool was created by Act 1995, No. 1339 as a state program that was intended to provide an alternative market for health insurance for certain uninsurable Arkansas residents and to provide the acceptable alternative mechanism as described in the HIPAA for providing portable and accessible individual health insurance for federally eligible individuals.

Arkansas eNews Room
Arkansas.gov
http://www.accessarkansas.org/government_pr.php
Read the latest news releases from Arkansas. Sort by date, agency, or title. Set up eMail notifications to stay informed! Get the fast news on your mobile devices.

Arkansas Government Agencies
Arkansas.gov
http://www.accessarkansas.org/government_name.php
Complete alphabetical list of all Arkansas state government entities including departments, boards, and commissions.

Arkansas Institute for Economic Advancement
UALR
http://www.aiea.ualr.edu/
The institute (IEA) provides specialized services which support the economic advancement of Arkansas and are available to businesses, governmental units, labor organizations, communities, and private individuals throughout the state.

Arkansas Legislative Bill Tracking System
Information Network of Arkansas
http://www.arkansas.gov/lobbyist/
This Internet service combines bill tracking, interactive monitoring and a reports generator with full text of bills available in one application.

Bureau of Justice Statistics
US Department of Justice
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Federal statisics on crime, law enforcement, and the justice system.

Business and Law Literature Databases
UAMS Library
http://www.library.uams.edu/resources/databases.aspx
NOTE: UAMS Site
Use the Ebsco access to search the business and law literature databases. The database contains full text for more than 250 scholarly law journals and full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
CMS
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
Provides links to all topics of interest about Medicare and Medicaid.

CLAS Act
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Health Care
http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/ohpp/clasact.asp
This resource offers information on how to structure a cultural competence training program, as well as resources to assist in setting up a training program, to identify qualified trainers, and to assess the cultural competence of organizations and their personnel.

Community Guide
CDC
http://www.thecommunityguide.org/
Includes direct links to research tested intervention programs and product examples from the National Cancer Institute's Research-Tested Intervention Programs in cancer, nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco sections.

Core Public Health Journals in Health Services Administration
PH/HA Medical Library Association
http://info.med.yale.edu/eph/phlibrary/phjournals/v2/subject/6/index.html
The Core Public Health Journals project is to identify a list of core public health journals that should be in all libraries serving public health organizations in any or all of the specialty areas covered. The Public Health and Health Administration section of the Medical Library Association supports this project.

Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/index.shtm
The Dartmouth Atlas Project works to accurately describe how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project offers comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians, in order to provide a basis for improving health and health systems.

Division of Health Rules and Regulations
DOH
http://www.healthyarkansas.com/rules_regs/rules_regs.htm
This site was developed to provide easy access to all State Board of Health rules and other pertinent legal documents.

Federal Register
GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.

Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)
AHRQ
http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/
HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States. Use HCUPnet (free) to query HCUP data directly and to view ready-to-use tables of commonly requested information.

Healthy Arkansas Program
DHHS
http://www.arkansas.gov/ha/home.html
Healthy Arkansas is a comprehensive effort to clearly define specific areas where behavioral changes can lead to healthier citizens.

kaiserEDU.org
Kaiser Family Foundation
http://kaiseredu.org/
Kaiser designed to provide students, faculty and others interested in learning about health policy easy access to the latest data, research, analysis, and developments in health policy.

Legislation and Regulations on Rural Health
Rural Assistance Center
http://phpartners.org/legis.html
A list of tools and resources dealing with legislative issues in public health.

National Health Interview Survey: Race and Hispanic Origin Information
NCHS
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhis/rhoi/rhoi.htm
The site is intended to be a resource for policy makers and federal agencies that wish to learn about the NHIS' experiences with collecting data on race and Hispanic origin. It is also a research tool that will assist researchers using NHIS in understanding the evolution and complexity of the race and Hispanic origin data in the NHIS.

PH Partners: Legislation and Policy
PH Partners
http://phpartners.org/legis.html
Resources to support legislative advocacy at the state and federal levels.

Policies and Regulations
DHHS
http://www.hhs.gov/policies/index.shtml
An updated list of policies, guidelines, and laws related to issues from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Public Health Law Program
CDC
http://www2a.cdc.gov/phlp/
In 2000, CDC formally recognized the important role of law in public health by establishing the CDC Public Health Law Program. The mission is to improve the health of the public through law.

Racial and Ethnic Classifications Used in Census 2000 and Beyond
Census.gov
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/racefactcb.html
The purpose of this document is to provide information about changes to the questions on race and Hispanic origin that have occurred for the Census 2000. These changes conform to the revisions of the standards for the classification of federal data on race and ethnicity promulgated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in October 1997.

Rural Health Policy
HRSA
http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/policy/
Congress charged the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) with informing and advising the Department of Health and Human Services on matters affecting rural hospitals, and health care, co-ordinating activities within the department that relate to rural health care, and maintaining a national information clearinghouse.

THOMAS
Library of Congress
http://thomas.loc.gov/
THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public.

United States House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/

United States Senate
http://www.senate.gov/