Consumer+Health+Resources

 Special resources for health professionals: **
 * How to find high quality health information online: **
 * ====[|Evaluating Health Information - a tutorial from the National Library of Medicine] Provides essential guidelines for laypeople seeking health information online.====
 * ====[|Medical Information on the Internet: a guide for health reporters and consumers] Comprehensive tutorial compiled by the Medical Library Association.====
 * ====[|A user's guide to finding and evaluating health information on the web] Also from MLA, this page compiles high-quality online resources. Includes the "Top Ten" most useful consumer health websites.====
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 * ====[|Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce] A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries; primary goal is to organize and deliver public health resources so they are easier to find and use.====
 * ====[|Health on the Net Foundation] HON is the leading non-profit, non-governmental organization promoting and guiding useful and reliable online medical and health information.====

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 ||= ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|National Institutes of Health]** ===

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||= ===<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Medpedia] ===

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<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">(public launch: Feb. 17, 2009) || ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|State Library of Ohio] <span style="text-align: center; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Health & Wellness: Reliable Web Resources] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||= ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|Medical Library Association]** ===
 * = <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Kids Health.org]

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||= ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|MayoClinic.com: tools for healthier lives]** ===
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">[|FDA for Consumers]

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|World Health Organization] || [| (from the University of Iowa)] ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Centers for Disease Control & Prevention] ||= ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|FamilyDoctor.org]** ===
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Virtual Hospital]

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|(American Academy of Physicians)] || ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Science.gov] ||= ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|HealthFinder]** ===
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|PubMed]

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|Information from the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion] || ||~ <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
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Alternative medicine <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||~ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (MedlinePlus)] ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Alternative Medicine Foundation] ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||~ <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|National Institute for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine]
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Diseases & Conditions <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||~ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Medline Plus] ||= ===<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|Health topics A to Z]** ===
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Deciphering Medspeak]

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Health-Related Information: Particular topics & issues ||~ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|African American Health Center (from NetWellness)] ||= ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|Senior Health]** ===
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Genetics Home Reference]

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || [| U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services] ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|American Diabetes Association] ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|American Academy of Pediatrics] ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="wiki_link_ext"> [|Womens Health]
 * = ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|**SIECUS**: Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States] ===

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Medicare] ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Doctor Finder] || ||~ <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
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Prescriptions & Medicines <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||~ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Consumer education: buying medicine and medical products over the Internet] ||= ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|Medline Plus Drug Information]** ===
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Buying prescription medicine online: a consumer safety guide]

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Tests & Procedures <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||~ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Guide to Diagnostic Tests] ([|from Harvard Medical School)] ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Deciphering Medspeak] || ||~ <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * = <span class="wiki_link_new" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Lab Tests Online] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
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Public Health <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||~ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||= ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|Google Flu Trends]** ===
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Centers for Disease Control & Prevention]

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> (click [|here] for more information) ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Medicare] || ||~ <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
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Local Resources <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||~ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|State Library of Ohio] ||= ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|Netwellness]** ===
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Ohio Web Library]

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Directory of Hospitals in Greater Cleveland] ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||~ <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Ohio Government Agencies]
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IS IT BAD INFORMATION? <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">⌘ tips and resources ⌘ <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||~ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Quackwatch] ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Urban Legends Reference Pages] ||
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Infomercials]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 151, 42);">Find more resources and information in these books:

 * **[|Consumer health informatics [electronic resource : informing consumers and improving health care / Deborah Lewis ... [et al.]...]]**
 * **[|Consumer health information source book / edited by Alan M. Rees]**
 * **[|Griffith's instructions for patients / Stephen W. Moore, with the assistance of Jo A. Griffith]**
 * **[|Introduction to reference sources in the health sciences / compiled and edited by Jo Anne Boorkman, Jeffrey T. Huber, Fred W. Roper]**
 * **[|Mosby's handbook of patient teaching / Mary M. Canobbio]**
 * **[|Working the web : a guide for nurses / Julie B. Bliss, Sandra DeYoung]**

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<span class="report_title">- from the [|Pew Internet and American Life Project]
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