An Interactive Digital Knowledge Management System to Improve Public Health Practitioners' Access to Public Health Resource

Background. Public health practitioners rely heavily on a diverse body of knowledge in varied formats covering numerous domains and specialties. There is a multitude of critical public health information resources produced at local, state, national, and international levels--for example, vaccination guidelines, industrial effluent data, laws and regulations, legislative issues updates, etc. Public health practitioners need simple, rapid access to this information; however, relatively little of this critical information is published through standard channels. In contrast to clinical medicine, there has been much less organized effort to provide public health practitioners and policymakers with access to the kinds of information they need for their work.