Health Sites
Updated 11-8-06
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[Fitness]
[Lesson Plans]
[Nutrition]
[Pregnancy]
[Psychology]
[Questions]
[Sexually Transmitted Diseases]
[Substance Abuse]
[Tobacco and Health]
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AIDSinfo
(On 4-03 Teacher Bulletin List)
- This site provides access to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HIV/AIDS resources and publications for patients, health care providers, students, and researchers. It includes information on HIV guidelines, anti-HIV drugs, and clinical trials on HIV/AIDS-Related Terms (in English and Spanish).
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Depression Central
- This site is a "central clearing house for information on all
types of depressive disorders and on the most effective
treatments for individuals suffering from Major Depression,
Manic-Depression (Bipolar Disorder), Cyclothymia, Cysthymia
and other mood disorders."
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Dr. Koop
- Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop heads up a deep and diverse site with health
news and resources that includes dozens of specific health topic areas. Drug Checker
allows you to check drug interactions or drug-food interactions.
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InteliHealth
- Johns Hopkins' site has a drug resouce center that features an index of drugs
by brand and generic names, and an ask-the-pharmacist section. Also check out the
medical dictionary.
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Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
- The site mixes news with in-depth features on topics as diverse as cochlear inplants and Alzheimer's disease.
There are also centers on men's, women's and children's health, as well as on cancer, heart disease, nutrition, and more.
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TeensHealth
- Created by the Nemours Foundation. Nemours, established in 1936 by philanthropist Alfred I. duPont, is dedicated to improving the health and spirit of children.
Family
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The Whole Family Center
- This site is an award winning interactive site which addresses
the concerns of modern families. It features an online
magazine and separate marriage, parenting, and teen centers.
Sensitive topics like inferitlity, anorexia, infidelity and
teen suicide are discussed.
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The Fitness Files
- How much exercise is required to get fit? What's the right
activity? What's the best way to prevent injuries? What foods
are healthiest? Find out the answers to these and other
fitness questions by exploring the quizzes, self-tests, and
other pages in this site.
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Shape Up America
- The site provides updated information on weight management and
physical fitness through surveys, press releases, and more.
Students can determine their Body Mass Index (BMI), a ratio
between weight and height that correlates with body fat.
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Health and Physical Education Lesson Plans
- This is a list of sites that contain lesson plans for Health
and Physical Education.
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Discovery Health and Fitness
- Some lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
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Reconstructors Solve Medical Mysteries (On 9-03 Teacher Bulletin List)
- Medical Mysteries is an interactive online game. Students solve mysteries and in doing so learn how infectious diseases are spread. Missions teach the fundamentals of microbiology, infectious diseases, and epiudemiology including virtual labs and are aligned with National Science Education Content Standards. Teacher Pages contain lots of downloadable resources.
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Calorie Control Council
- An online calorie counter for your diet.
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The Food and Nutrition Information Center
- Find everything you ever wanted to know about food here.
Includes searchable databases on food and nutrition software,
healthy school meals, foodborn illness education materials,
and nutrition education materials. There are also food safety,
food composition, dietary guidelines, food guide pyramid,
healthy eating index, and site list sections.
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Fast Food Facts
- Food Finder provides nutritional information about fast food
items. Students could use this site to find the fat content of
their favorite burger or list low calorie items from one or
more restaurants.
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Campaign for our Children
- This multiple award-winning site offers statistics, stories,
teacher resources, and more to help combat the problem of
teenage pregnancy.
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The Digital First 9 Months
- A visually elegant Web site that actually does justice to the wondrous journey of pregnancy and birth.
It chronicles the changes that individual days, weeks, and months, of pregnancy bring in vivid words and pictures.
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Cognition and Brain Sciences
- Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit … lots of fascinating Applied
Psychology experiments described.
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British Psychological Society
- Look up frequently asked questions and information on careers in Psyshology.
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School Psychology Resources on the Internet
- Resources for Psychologists, Parents and Educators - Research learning disabilities, ADHD, functional behavioral assessment, autism, adolescence, parenting, psychological assessment, special education, mental retardation, mental health, and more.
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Social Psychology Network
- A very comprehensive selection of sources… excellent for ideas,
experiments, descriptions, evaluations, results, etc.
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American Psychological Association
- Large, comprehensive … heaps of ideas here!
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Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide
- Drama Therapy … great ideas for students here.
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Go Ask Alice
- This site features an interactive health question and answer
service. Includes Q&A on sexuality, relationships, alcohol and
other drugs, fitness and nutrition, emotional well-being, and
general health.
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The OFCN Health and Wellness Center
- Post a question on one of the clinic pages, and get an answer
from an expert. Clinics include, Biomedical Ethics,
Cardiology, Dermatology, Dental, Digestive Disorders, Ear,
Nose and Throat, Eye, General Medicine, AIDS, Cancer,
Pediatric, and Plastic Surgery.
Contributed by Mr. Setzler
- Chlamydia
- Center for Disease Control
- Georgia Department of Human Resources
- Crabs
- Center for Disease Control
- eMedicineHealth.com
- eMedicineHealth.com is a first aid and consumer health information site. There are more than 5,500 pages of content written by physicians for patients and consumers.
- Genital Herpes
- American Social Health Association
- Genital Warts
- New York State Department of Health
- Gonorrhea
- New York State Department of Health
- PID - Pelvic Inflamatory Disease
- West Penn Health System
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
Take the Test Your Sexual Health Know-How challenge from Teenwire.com.
- Scabies
- New York State Department of Health
- New Zealand Dermatological Society
- Syphilis
- National Women's Health Information Center
- New York State Department of Health
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California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (ADP)(On 9-03 Teacher Bulletin List)
- The Resource Center maintains a comprehensive collection of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug information for use by California communities and schools free of charge. There is also a library of videos that can be borrowed.
http://www.drugabuse.gov/
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National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Check out this site for fact sheets on caffeine, tobacco,
amphetamines, cocaine, ecstacy, heroin, cannabis, alcohol,
hallucinogens, and volatile substances.
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Just Say No! An Alcohol Awareness Website for Grades
9-12
- This site educates teenagers about the dangers and the
consequences of alcohol. It can be used by students as an
information site, as well as by classroom teachers as a
resource for classroom activity ideas.
- National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
- This is the information service of the Center for Substance
Abuse Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. It is the world's largest resource for current
information and materials concerning substance abuse
prevention.
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National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- Sections include publications, databases on facts and
medicine, research programs, FAQs, and links to related
organization's sites.
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Children and Tobacco
- This site has press releases, fact sheets, and regulations of tobacco sales to children.
This U.S. FDA web site has a lot of information related to laws and regulation relating to tobacco.
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Cigarette Pack Collectors Association Location
- If you would like to see how cigarette packaging has changed through history, this web site offers a very
interesting exhibition and story to go with it. Use the images to document reports.
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Tobacco Issues
- Since 1904, the American Lung Association (ALA) has been a leading source of information and public education on
lung health. This section on their web site has been designed to give easy access to information on smoking and tobacco
control, lung disease and related diseases.
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Tobacco Leaf
- The International Tobacco Growers' Association is the voice of thousands of tobacco farmers all over the world.
Includes the facts and figures about the production of tobacco.
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Fact Sheet on Cigarette Smoking
- From The World Health Organization, all the statistics related to tobacco and smoking for the countries of the world are organized and available here. Just do a search for tobacco. The site is thorough and comprehensive.
