Health Promotion and Health Education

Resources for health educators and health promotion specialists.

• Checklists Help Men and Women Stay Healthy at 50-Plus - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and AARP developed two new checklists that outline the steps men and women over age 50 need to take to stay healthy and prevent disease.

• Consumers & Patients - Information in English and Spanish on many health issues.

• Fact Sheets - Information on many health issues.

• Patient Safety Network - A web-based resource featuring the latest news and essential resources on patient safety. The site offers weekly updates of patient safety literature, news, tools, and meetings (“What's New”), and a vast set of carefully annotated links to important research and other information on patient safety (“The Collection”).

• Preventive Services - Access to scientific evidence, recommendations on clinical preventive services, and information on how to implement recommended preventive services in clinical practice.

• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence - Pathfinder page links to materials that help tobacco users quit.

• Asian Pacific Islander Cancer Education Materials Tool - Searchable online database of Asian language cancer materials.

• ACPM Practice Policy Statements - ACPM's Prevention Practice Committee coordinates the development of practice policy statements in areas of concern to College members. Practice policy statements provide guidance to clinicians.

• Get Ready - The Get Ready campaign includes a blog, fact sheets and podcasts to help the public prepare for a potential influenza pandemic and outbreaks of other emerging infectious diseases.

• Health Disparities Database - Sponsored by the American Public Health Association, this database contains projects and interventions provided by members of the public health community.

• Healthy You - Free public health materials from The Nation's Health newspaper. The materials are designed to be used with the public at health fairs, health departments or community meetings.

• Self-Help Group Sourcebook Online - A searchable database that includes information on over 1,100+ national, international and demonstrational model self-help support groups, ideas for starting groups, and opportunities to link with others to develop needed new national or international groups.

• Pathways to Public Health - Provides information and resources for talented young people interested in exploring careers in public health, and for the teachers, school counselors, and others who work with them.

• This is Public Health toolkit - ASPH has developed a "This is Public Health" toolkit to serve as a resource for anyone who is interested in educating others about public health issues or the field of public health.

• What is Public Health? - Describes the many areas of public health for prospective students or others who want to know more about the field.

• Salud en Accion - An initiative to address the burden of cancer disparities and stimulate behavior modification to improve public health in the Hispanic/Latino community.

• California Distance Learning Health Network - CDLHN promotes and provides access to continuing educational opportunities for healthcare workers at a time and a location convenient to where they live and work.

• Cancer Control PLANET - This PLANET portal provides access to data and resources that can help planners, program staff, and researchers to design, implement and evaluate evidence-based cancer control programs.

• The Rehabilitation Provider's Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born - Provides specific information on cultural perspectives of foreign-born persons in the U.S.

• BAM! - Health topics from the CDC of interest to youth.

• CDC en Español - CDC en Español is CDC's gateway for health and safety information in Spanish.

• CDC-TV - Online videos that cover a variety of health, safety and preparedness topics. The videos include single-topic presentations as well as series for children, parents and public health professionals. Most are short and all include captioning for the hearing-impaired.

• CDCynergy - CDCynergy is a multimedia CD-ROM used for planning, managing, and evaluating public health communication programs. This innovative tool is used to guide and assist users in designing health communication interventions within a public health framework.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Marketing - CDC's National Center for Health Marketing is responsible for creating, communicating and delivering innovative health marketing programs, products, and services that are customer-centered, high-impact, and science-based.

• Excite: Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology - CDC teaching materials to introduce students to public health and epidemiology.

• FASTATS A-Z - Listing and quick links for basic public health statistical data.

• Global Health Odyssey - CDC's museum's homepage with items of interest to children, teachers, and other CDC visitors.

• Health Promotion Campaigns - Health campaigns on a range of public health issues.

• Health Topics A to Z - Listing with quick links of health topics found on the CDC website.

• Healthier Worksite Initiative - Resource for workforce health promotion (WHP) program planners in state and federal government. Planners at non-government workplaces may also find this Web site useful in generating ideas for WHP in their organizations. The site provides information, resources, and step-by-step toolkits to help improve the health of employees.

• National Immunization Program - Childhood vaccination schedules and vaccine safety precautions.

• PHIL: Public Health Image Library - Public Health Image Library containing a collection of public domain images.

• Power to Prevent - Curriculum to help educate African American communities on how to prevent and control diabetes through healthy eating and physical activity.

• TB Education & Training Resources - A searchable, comprehensive database of materials from national and international organizations. At this "one-stop" site of tuberculosis (TB) education and training resources, you can search for materials by language, target audience, and format.

• Travelers' Health - Health information on specific travel destinations.

• VERB Youth Media Campaign - National, multicultural, social marketing campaign that encourages young people ages 9–13 years to be physically active every day.

• Community Tool Box - The Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical information to support your work in promoting community health and development. This web site is created and maintained by the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas (U.S.A). Developed in collaboration with AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts, the site has been on line since 1995, and it continues to grow on a weekly basis.

• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health - Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. CCPH sponsors conferences, training institutes and customized consultation to strengthen community-academic linkages in public health. The CCPH website contains a wealth of resources on practice-based learning, community-based participatory research and community-engaged scholarship.

• Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library - Provides access to deployment health and family readiness information for service members, families and healthcare providers. This online library includes fact sheets, guides and other products on a wide variety of topics.

• Healthfinder - Health education information, resources, and organizations from reliable sources (in English and Spanish)

• HealthierUS.gov - The HealthierUS initiative is a national effort to improve people's lives, prevent and reduce the costs of disease, and promote community health and wellness. This Web site is part of a broad presidential agenda designed to help Americans, especially children, live longer, better, and healthier lives. The site provides credible, accurate information to help Americans choose healthier habits.

• PandemicFlu.gov

• Patient Reference Guide - Comprehensive patient reference guides from ECRI, an international independent nonprofit agency and Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization. ECRI is designated as an Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. ECRI's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare.

• Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Protection - The Higher Education Center's purpose is to help college and community leaders develop, implement, and evaluate programs and policies to reduce student problems related to alcohol and other drug use and interpersonal violence.

• Consumer Health Information for You and Your Family - This resource features timely consumer health stories on pressing FDA topics, provides links to its most requested information, and includes interactive content.

• FDA & You. News for Health Educators and Students - An educational newsletter intended for use by health educators, secondary school students and their parents. It contains news about medical products from each of FDA's five Centers

• FDA A-Z Index - An index of health topics available from the Food and Drug Administration.

• FDA Diabetes Information - The information found here will help a person manage their diabetes and live a healthy life.

• FDA Heart Health Online - This Web site provides reliable information about the products used to prevent, diagnose, and treat cardiovascular disease. It includes full descriptions and patient instructions for many medications, medical devices, and diagnostic tests for cardiovascular disease.

• FDA Kids' Home Page - A website filled with fun activities for kids.

• FDA Radiological Health Program - This website provides information about FDA's Radiological Health Program including its 2005-2010 plan to adapt to current public health needs.

• FDA's Drug Safety Initiative - Drug safety information for patients, consumers, and healthcare professionals.

• Food Safety for Moms-To-Be - Easy-to-understand information about foodborne illness for pregnant women. This site is in both in English and Spanish.

• Mammography - Information for mammography facility personnel, inspectors, and consumers about the implementation of the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 (MQSA)

• Medical Device Safety - A resource to educate and inform health care professionals on patient safety issues relating to medical devices.

• Medicines In My Home - An interactive and educational program about the safe and effective use of over-the-counter medicines.

• MEDWATCH: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program - MedWatch provides timely safety information on medical products and drugs regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). MedWatch also allows healthcare professionals and consumers to report serious problems with any FDA regulated product and any serious adverse event.

• Office of Women's Health - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Women's Health (OWH) serves as a champion for women's health both within and outside the agency.

• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Patient Care - Information about personal protective equipment (PPE) that is regulated by the FDA for use in patient care activities including surgical masks and surgical N-95 respirators, medical gloves, and surgical gowns.

• Spanish Language Publications from the FDA - Provides consumers with information on a variety of health related topics. Also provides regulated industry information on drugs, good and veterinary medicine

• Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) - The Center links educators and health professionals to the information essential to building effective school health programs, tests new school-connected strategies to achieve better health outcomes for children, and promotes awareness of successful new directions in school-based programming.

• Maternal and Child Health Library - Provides the Materal and Child Health community with accurate and timely information on a broad range of topics.

• Health Communication Partnership - Five institutions working together to strengthen public health in the developing world through strategic communication programs.

• Cultural Competence Resources for Health Care Providers - Highlights HRSA-supported projects on cross-cultural health care in areas such as assessment, culture and language, specific diseases, health professions, research, special populations, technical assistance, training, and web-based learning.

• Healthy Roads Media - This site contains free audio, written and multimedia health education materials in a number of languages.

• RE-AIM.ORG - RE-AIM stands for: Reach,Efficacy/Effectiveness, Adoption,Implementation, and Maintenance. RE-AIM provides a framework/model for planning, conducting, and evaluating health behavior interventions. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the RE-AIM Web site provides calculators, checklists, citations to health behavior intervention studies that have used the RE-AIM framework, and other tools and resources for both researchers and community leaders.

• RN Barr Library - Provides resources of interest to the public health community, including links to hot topics, publications and news resources.

• Healthy Vision Community Programs Database - Searchable collection of community-based eye health education programs from U.S. states and territories.

• Public Health Excellence at NICE - Provides guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health.

• Helping Older Adults Search for Health Information Online: A Toolkit for Trainers - Training materials to help older adults find reliable, up-to-date online health information on their own. The training features two websites from the National Institutes of Health -- NIHSeniorHealth.gov and MedlinePlus.gov.

• Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free - Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free, a coalition of Governors' spouses, Federal agencies, and public and private organizations, is an initiative to prevent the use of alcohol by children ages 9

• NIH Curriculum Supplement Series - Interactive teaching units that combine cutting-edge science research discoveries from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with state-of-the-art instructional materials. Each supplement is a teacher's guide to two weeks of lessons on science and human health.

• American Indian Health - An information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of American Indians

• Household Products Database - Health & Safety Information on Household Products.

• MedlinePlus - MedlinePlus provides extensive information from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and other trusted sources on over 600 diseases and conditions.

• ToxTown - An interactive guide to commonly encountered toxic substances and environmental health risks.

• DIRLINE - Directory of health organizations and other resources in health and biomedicine.

• Multilingual Consumer Health Information - Web site contains a list of links that contain consumer health information. Each link also contains a list of languages that are available for the resource.

• Native American Connections - Provides culturally appropriate resources for Native Americans and special needs populations.

• Take Care New York - Contains Take Care New York Action Steps to improve your health, with specific things you can do, along with Additional Resources to help you follow through.

• Health Communication Activities - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's Web site brings together work on the Healthy People 2010 Health Communication Focus Area, the Prevention Communication Research Database, and consumer and patient e-health.

• Prevention Communication Research Database - Searchable collection of audience research conducted or sponsored by HHS agencies. The database was developed to highlight key prevention research findings that may not be widely known or published in peer-reviewed journals.

• Quick Guide to Health Literacy - Provides an overview of health literacy concepts and techniques for improving health literacy. Designed for government employees, grantees and contractors, and community partners working in healthcare and public health fields. The tools can be applied to healthcare delivery, policy, administration, communication, and education activities aimed at the public.

• Public Health Foundation Learning Resource Center - High quality training and health promotion materials that include information on preparedness; immunization; epidemiology; diabetes; infectious diseases; performance management; asthma and allergies; and health disparities. Materials are available in a variety of formats, including print, computer-based, and video.

• Public Health Indicators and National Data - A web-based resource for community-level social indicators of health, with links to community specific sites, indicators and comparisons.

• HealthComm Key - HealthComm Key is a searchable database containing comprehensive summaries from published peer-reviewed studies related to health communication.

• Rural Assistance Center - The Rural Assistance Center (RAC) is a national resource on rural health and human services information. Information specialists are available to provide customized assistance for rural topics and funding resources, links users to organizations and furnish relevant publications from the RAC resource library.

• USA - Mexico Border Health - Resource for residents along the U.S.-Mexico border and others seeking information on health and human services for border communities.

• Health Disparities and Social Inequities: Framing a Transdisciplinary Research Agenda in Health Education - View panel presentations and the setting of a research agenda on the role of health education in eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities. Webcast by the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation.

• National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs, 2007 - The National Directory is a listing of Federal, State, local and private facilities that provide substance abuse treatment services.

• Iowa Public Health Information - Address the information needs of Iowa public health professionals by creating an easy-to-use web site that emphasizes local and state resources and provides links to National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resources.

• Unite for Sight - Unite for Sight works to build healthier communities through disease prevention, eye health promotion and health education. This organization works nationally and internationally to develop sustainable solutions to reduce health disparities.

• United Health Foundation - UnitedHealth Group established the United Health Foundation in 1999 as a nonprofit, private foundation with a mission to support the health and medical decisions made by physicians, health professionals, community leaders and individuals that lead to better health outcomes and healthier communities.

• Hawaii Public Health Information Virtual Emporium - Provides public health professionals hands-on training in the use of local and web-based health databases, and with a website which can furnish them with timely, convenient access to information resources to help them improve the health of the public they serve.

• American Social Hygiene Posters, ca.1910-1970 - This site offers a searchable and browsable database of posters on a variety of social issues such as dance, family, hygiene, mental health, reproduction, sexual abstinence, and more. From the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

• Outbreak at Watersedge - A Public Health Discovery Game - An interactive computer game developed by the University of Minnesota Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health that is designed to introduce high school students to the field of public health.