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Please Note: These lists of resources are not comprehensive nor does inclusion imply endorsement. Information obtained should not be a substitute for consultation with your physician or healthcare provider.
AgeSource
Worldwide
AgeSource Worldwide describes clearinghouses, databases,
libraries, directories, statistical resources, bibliographies and reading lists,
texts, and Web "metasites" focused on aging or closely allied subjects. The
topics covered range from Alzheimer's disease to wills and estate planning.
Health and Medical Science Internet Web Links
Health Information
Provided by the National Institutes of Health. Has links to several types of
health information.
Health
and Wellness Resource Center
Available through InfoTrac.
An index of articles of which many are full-text, on
the following subjects: medicine, nutrition, public health, alcohol and drug
abuse, etc.
Covers from 1997 to the present.
Intellihealth
Provided by by Harvard.
Includes a link to Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary.
Includes a link to the Drug Resource Center.
MayoClinic.com
Health Oasis is your source of reliable health information
from Mayo Clinic.
This site is directed by a team of Mayo physicians,
scientists, writers and educators.
Updated each weekday to bring you the most relevant
health information.
MEDLINEplus
Provided by the U.S. government to provide full text
information and links to research.
AllRefer Health
Updated daily by health professionals.
Medical resource provides comprehensive and authoritative
information and news on diseases, symptoms, tests, surgery, injuries, nutrition,
medications, and poisons. Focuses on family and community health.
WebMD
Updated daily.
Health Topics A-Z. Includes: medical encyclopedia,
self-care advisor, drug reference, "Ask Our Experts," lesson guides for teachers
ThriveOnline [http://www.thriveonline.com], fitness, sexuality, nutrition, and
weight.
Alan Guttmacher Institute
The mission of The Alan Guttmacher Institute(AGI) is
to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men. Contains some current
events articles.
Alateen
A fellowship of young Al-Anon members, usually teenagers,
whose lives have been affected by someone's else's drinking.
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Juvenile Arthritis Organization
Adolescent
Health On-Line
Provided by the American Medical Association.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
One of the Foundation's main objectives is to provide
the best available data and analysis on critical issues affecting disadvantaged
children and families, as well as the knowledge and tools practitioners, policymakers,
and citizens need to advance their efforts on behalf of children.
Ask NOAH
NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health
information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.
They currently support both English and Spanish.
Provided by New York Online Access to Health, a group
on librarians.
The Aware Foundation
AWARE(Adolescent Wellness and Reproductive Education
Foundation) is dedicated to educating and empowering adolescents to make responsible
decisions regarding their wellness, sexuality, and reproductive health.
Adolescent and School
Health
Provided by the Division of Adolescent and School Health(DASH),
part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
CYFERnet
CYFERnet's website brings together the best, children,
youth and family resources of all the public land-grant universities in the
country.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Health
Health Internet Public Library Teen
Making the Grade
School health resources.
Making the Grade is a national grant program supported
by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Under this initiative, the foundation
has made $17.5 million available to support state-community partnerships to
establish comprehensive school-based health centers.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
National Clearinghouse
on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
The Clearinghouse is a national resource for professionals
seeking information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child
abuse and neglect and related child welfare issues.
National Organization of Adolescent
Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention
NOAPPP's mission is to provide leadership, education,
training, information and advocacy resources and support to practitioners in
adolescent pregnancy, parenting and prevention.
ReCAPP (The Resource
Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention)
"We want to serve as a bridge between front line educators
and the researchers who are analyzing how educational and youth development
programs can best make an impact on the rate of teen pregnancy. We want to help
make your efforts to reduce teen pregnancy as effective as possible."
SA\VE Suicide Awareness \
Voices of Education
The mission of SA\VE is to educate about suicide prevention
and to speak for suicide survivors.
Sex Etc.
A website by teens for teens.
SIECUS
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the
US.
Society for Adolescent
Medicine
A multidisciplinary organization of professionals committed
to improving the physical and psychosocial health and well being of all adolescents.
Suicide
If You Are Thinking About Suicide, Read this First.
Type 1 Diabetes
Provided by the American Diabetes Association.
Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN)
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI)
Alternative
Medicine Center
Provided by HealthWorld Online.
Alternative
Health Practices
Provided by the Texas Medical Association(TMA) Library.
Alternative Medicine
Homepage
Provided by Charles B. Wessel, Falk Library of the
Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.
AltVetMed
Alternative, Complementary and Holistic Veterinary
Medicine.
Ask NOAH About: Alternative (Complementary) Medicine
NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health
information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.
They currently support both English and Spanish.
Use the word alternative with subject desired (i.e: alternative and allergy)
Provided by New York Online Access to Health, a group on librarians.
HealthWWWeb: Choices for Health
Naturopathic
Physicians Online
Find a Naturopathic physician by location, or browse
their library.
Oncolink:
Complementary Treatments [for cancer]
Provided by the University of Pennsylvania.
Richard
and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine (Columbia
University Medical Center)
Provides links to scientific research and laws.
Anatomy of the Human
Body
"The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the
Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic
1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from
the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn."
American Cancer Society
Provides much information about cancer and how to adjust
to it.
Cancer.gov
Provided by U. S. Government.
Oncolink: Complementary
Treatments [for cancer]
Provided by the University of Pennsylvania.
Occupational
Therapy
Go to the following sections:
Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Provided by the National Library of Medicine.
Spell Checker by Spellex spelling software.
Your Link to Nutrition and
Health
Provided by the American Dietetic Association.
The Diet Channel
Award winning site featuring weight loss, diet analysis,
nutrition information, and more.
Provided by the American Dietetic Association.
AMA
Physician Select
This is a directory only; does not provide information
on quality.
Directories
by MEDLINEplus.
Directories of physicians, dentists, other healthcare
providers, hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities and services.
SciCentral
A nice collection of good links, reported in The Scout
Report SciCentral. "SciCentral will appeal to a wide variety of users interested
or working in science or medicine. The site is first and foremost a gateway
to thousands of online resources, grouped by science area (Biological, Health,
Engineering, Physical & Chemical, etc.) and then subdivided by resource type
(directories, specialized resources, databases, special reports, articles).
SciCentral also features a number of diverse Special Features, including Academic
Programs, K-12 Science, The Media Room, and a Bulletin Board, among others.
A current awareness resource, with links to current research highlights, breaking
science news, and new articles from an impressive range of sources. In addition,
the site has recently introduced a free customizable weekly science email update
service, which allows users to select from over 120 topics."
Published
criteria for evaluating health related websites
Review by Paul Kim, Thomas R. Eng, Mary Jo Deering,
and Andrew Maxfield. BMJ 1999; 318: 647-649.
American Board of Medical
Specialties(ABMS) Public Education
"Program's Physician Locator and Information Service:
This free service contains the following information about physicians who have
been certified by one or more of the 24 member boards of the ABMS: board certification
status of the physician; location by city, state, and specialty; telephone number,
address; hospital and health plan affiliations; links to physician and hospital
web pages. This site also features a complete list of all medical disciplines.
Directories
by MEDLINEplus.
Directories of physicians, dentists, other healthcare
providers, hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities and services.
Docfinder
Provided by the Association of State Medical Board
Executive Directors as a service in locating licensing information on physicians
in participating states.
Onhealth
How many calories have you burned? An interactive tool
from Onhealth helps you figure it out. Just select your activity and its duration,
then enter your weight, and this handy calculator will tell you right away how
many calories you burned. (Scroll down past chart).
Genetics Home Reference: Your
Guide to Understanding Genetic Conditions
National Library of Medicine's website for consumer
information about genetic conditions and the genes responsible for those conditions.
Online Mendelian
Inheritance in Man(OMIM)
This database is a catalog of human
genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Victor A. McKusick and his
colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide
Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The researcher
can find textual information , pictures , reference information , links to
NCBI's
Entrez database of MEDLINE articles, and sequence information. RANGE: current
information only. UPDATES: continually.
Directories
by MEDLINEplus.
Directories of physicians, dentists, other healthcare
providers, hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities and services.
Hospital
Web
Links to hospital websites world wide.
Quality
Check
Provided by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations. Directory of nearly 18,000 healthcare organizations.
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)
Health Topics A to Z provides full-text information
on disease and health.
Current announcement, events, and calendar.
Health information on specific destinations. What you
should know before you go.
CHID(Combined Health Information
Database)
"CHID is a bibliographic database produced by health-related
agencies of the Federal Government.
This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability
information for health information and health education resources.
CHID lists a wealth of health promotion and education
materials and program descriptions that are not indexed elsewhere.
New records are added quarterly and current listings
are checked regularly to help ensure that entries are up to date and still available
from their original sources. Some older records are retained for archival purposes."
MEDLINEplus
Published by the National Library of Medicine.
MEDLINEplus will direct you to information to help
answer health questions.
MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative
information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government,
non-profit and other health-related organizations.
Health
and Wellness Resource Center
Available through InfoTrac.
An index of articles of which many are full-text, on
the following subjects: medicine, nutrition, public health, alcohol and drug
abuse, etc.
Covers from 1997 to the present.
Familydoctor.org
Health information for the whole family.
Published by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Merck &
Company, Inc.
Contains selections from the Merck Manual of Medical
Information, as well as brief articles on a variety of medical topics.
Merck & Co., Inc. is a manufacturer of human and animal
health products and services.
NOAH: Men's Health
"NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health
information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased."
They currently support both English and Spanish.
Provided by New York Online Access to Health, a group of librarians.
Duke University Health (for students)
Healthfinder: Men's Health.
Healthy Man Center by HealthWorld Online.
Mayo Clinic Men's HealthCenter
American Dietetic Association
Your
Link to Nutrition and Health.
Office of
Dietary Supplements
Provided by the National Institutes of Health.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
National Organization of Adolescent
Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention
NOAPPP's mission is to provide leadership, education,
training, information and advocacy resources and support to practitioners in
adolescent pregnancy, parenting and prevention.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
ReCAPP
The Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.
"We want to serve as a bridge between front line educators
and the researchers who are analyzing how educational and youth development
programs can best make an impact on the rate of teen pregnancy.
We want to help make your efforts to reduce teen pregnancy
as effective as possible."
American Public Health Association
Provides links to public health news and guidelines.
Provides links to many local, national, and international
health organizations.
Public Health Infolinks
Provided by Emory University
Links to local, State, United States, and international
agencies.
Links to some abstracts and full-text journal articles
Links to photographs and videos
SA\VE (Suicide Awareness\Voices
of Education)
Educate about suicide prevention
Speak to suicide survivors.
YourSurgery.Com
An expanding multimedia database of operative procedures
designed to educate average individuals about their surgery.
This site will explain the most commonly performed
surgeries, using simple diagrams and cutting edge animation.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Occupational
Therapy
Go to the following sections: "Cultural Medicine,"
"Cultural Mental Health," "Dictionaries" and "Miscellaneous: Culture Section."
American Dietetic Association
Excerpts from Dieting for Dummies. Search
with "dummies."
The Diet Channel
Award winning site featuring weight loss, diet analysis,
nutrition information, and more.
Weight
Management
Provided by Harvard.
ivillage Health
Provided by the women's organization iVillage.
Ask Noah
NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health
information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.
They currently support both English and Spanish.
Search using the word women.
Provided by New York Online Access to Health, a group
of librarians.
Women's Health Center
Provided by the Mayo Clinic.
This site is directed by a team of Mayo physicians,
scientists, writers and educators.
This site is updated each weekday to bring you the
most relevant health information.
Healthfinder
just for you:Women
Co-sponsored by the National Women's Health Information
Center(NWHIC) of the Public Health Service's Office on Women's Health.
Health
Topics
Provided by the American Medical Women's Association.
National Women's Health Information
Center
Provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.
A one-stop gateway for women seeking health information,
whether you're a consumer, a health care professional, a researcher, an educator,
or a student.
Provides comprehensive information in English and Spanish.
Access to dictionaries and journals; some journals
are fulltext and free, some have fees.
BODY COMPOSITION: BODY MASS INDEX One of the accepted approaches to weight assessment is a technique developed by the National Center for Health Statistics called body mass index (BMI). To find your BMI, follow these steps:
Annual
Reviews
Full text 1996+, tables of contents 1984-1995. Earlier
volumes of several series available in Simpson Library; check library catalog
for holdings.
Annual reviews in the fields of biomedical sciences,
physical sciences, and social sciences.
American
Journal of Nursing
Full text 1996 - present.
American
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Full text 1993 - present.
Anesthesia
& Analgesia
Full text 1995 - present.
Anesthesiology
Full text 1995 -present.
AORN
Journal
Full text 1995 - present.
Cancer
Nursing
Full text 1996 - present.
Clinical
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Full text 1996 - present.
Computers
in Nursing
Full text 1996 - present.
Geriatric
Nursing
Full text 1996 - present.
Heart
& Lung: Journal of Acute & Critical Care
Full text 1995 - present.
Health
and Wellness Resource Center
Available through InfoTrac.
An index of articles of which many are full-text,
on the following subjects: medicine, nutrition, public health, alcohol and
drug abuse, etc.
Covers from 1997 to the present.
JOGNN
- Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing
Full text 1996 - present.
Journal
of Advanced Nursing
Full text 1995 - present.
Journal
of Emergency Nursing
Full text April 1995 - present.
Journal
of Nursing Administration
Full text 1996 - present.
N
& HC Perspectives on Community
Full text 1995 - present.
Nurse
Educator
Full text 1996 - present.
Nursing
Research
Full text 1996 - present.
Please Note: These lists of resources are not comprehensive nor does inclusion imply endorsement. Information obtained should not be a substitute for consultation with your physician or healthcare provider.
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