Specific populations
Caregivers
Caregiving.com
Aimed at those who are caring for an aging relative, this web site offers tips, advice, online support groups, and more.
Caring Connections
Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer and community engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life, supported by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA)
Intended as an online resource for long-term care, the Family Caregiver Alliance offers factsheets (many in Spanish, and some in Chinese Big5 Format), news, information on supprt resources, statistics, policy information, and features a monthly interview.
Healthfinder.gov: Caregivers
This government gateway site provides selected links on caregiving topics.
National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA)
By providing information and education; support and validation; public awareness and advocacay, NFCA strives to minimize the disparity between a caregiver's quality of life and that of mainstream Americans
End of Life Issues
Growth House
Growth House's search engine offers access to the most comprehensive online collection of reviewed resources for end-of-life care
National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
The National Hospice and Palliative Care organization is committed to improving end of life care and expanding access to hospice care.
Disabled Persons
ABLEDATA
Sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research of U.S. Department of Education, ABLEDATA is a federally-funded project to provide information on assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources to consumers, organizations, professionals, and caregivers within the U.S.
Cornucopia of Disability Information (CODI)
CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas. The information addresses local (Buffalo & WNY), state, national and international audiences.
Family Village : A Global Community of Disability-Related Resources
Family Village is a community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support.
WheelchairNet
A product of the University of Pittsburgh's RERC (Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center), WheelchairNet's purpose is to serve the information needs of anyone interested in wheeled mobility. However, its primary audience is the end user - the person who uses a wheelchair.
Infants and children
American Academy of Pediatrics
Features the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), headquartered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Posts a membership FAQ, the AAP publications catalog, contact details, and a directory of chapter membership. Offers information on AAP departments, the Office of the Executive Director, member benefits, travel services, professional education programs, and research and advocacy activities. Provides access to a pediatric referral service and a parent resource guide.
Family Doctor: health information for the whole family
All content on this website is written or selected by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Information comes in a variety of formats and groupings (self-care flowcharts, senior health topics, medications, etc.), but is uniformly reliable and understandable.
Healthfinder.gov Kids
This is the kids' section of the Office of Disease Promotion and Prevention's comprehensive Healthfinder web site.
Kid's Home Page (US Food & Drug Administration)
This is the kids' section of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA)'s web site.
KidsHealth
Sponsored and produced by the Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth features hundreds of articles and features, with different sections for parents, kids and teens.
NYU Children's Health
This web site presents the latest information on NYU Medical Center's pediatric services and programs, as well as pertinent information for both families and physicians.
Men
Medem: Men's Health
Information on various topics relating to men's health from the member medical societies of Medem.
MEDLINEplus: Men's Health
General men's health links that have been selected and organized by MedlinePlus.
Men's Health (FamilyDoctor.org)
Clear and simple patient handouts, fact sheets, and self-care flowcharts on men's health topics, from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Men's Health (NOAH)
New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) provides selected, organized links to information on men's health topics.
Multicultural Health
Ethnomed
Seattle, Washington's Harborview Medical Center presents EthnoMed, a web site containing information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants.
MEDLINEplus: African-American Health
The MedlinePlus web site brings together a selection of links on African American health, organized by topic.
MEDLINEplus: Asian-American Health
The MedlinePlus web site brings together a selection of links on Asian American health, organized by topic.
MEDLINEplus: Hispanic-American Health
The MedlinePlus web site brings together a selection of links on Hispanic American health, organized by topic.
MEDLINEplus: Native American Health
The MedlinePlus web site brings together a selection of links on Native American health, organized by topic.
Health Information in Other Languages
Spanish
Centros para el Control & la Prevencion de Enfermedades (CDC)
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) offer a Spanish-language version of their site.
Healthfinder: en Espanol
Healthfinder espanol contiene fuentes de informacion seleccionadas en espanol que le pueden servir de guia para tomar decisiones con relacion a su salud. (Healthfinder's Spanish language section contains selected links to information in Spanish which can guide you in making health care decisions.)
Los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (NIH)
Esta pagina le ofrece una coleccion de publicaciones de NIH, organizada por orden alfabetico, segun el tipo de problema medica o enfermedad. (This page offers links to a collection of NIH publications, organized in alphabetical order, according to type of medical problem or illness.)
Manuel Merck de Informacion Medica para El Hogar
The Merck Manual Home Edition has a Spanish Language version, available fulltext online.
MEDLINEplus en Espanol
The National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus web site provides selected, organized links to Spanish language health information.
Russian
MedInfoRus : Medical Information in Russian
Chinese
SPIRAL: Patient Information by Language: Chinese
Multilingual
Healthy Roads Media
A multimedia, multilingual site that features easy to read information on a variety of common health topics. Information is available in English and Spanish as well as 7 other languages. Information may be accessed in several different formats: written, audio, video, or a combination of these.
Seniors
AARP: Health
The AARP Webplace provides a wealth of information and resources for those 50 and over, including health and wellness information.
Administration on Aging
The Administration on Aging (AoA) web site includes information designed for older Americans and their families as well as those concerned about providing the opportunities and services to enrich the lives of older persons and support their independence.
Aging Well Village : A Health & Wellness Village for Mature Adults
The New York State Office for the Aging presents Aging Well Village, a health and wellness village for mature adults. Featured are articles, factsheets and other information on nutrition, fitness, self care and more, all presented in large print for better readability.
ElderWeb
ElderWeb includes over 6,000 reviewed links to long term care information, as well as an expanding library of articles and reports, news and events.
FamilyDoctor.org: Seniors
Patient handouts, fact sheets, and self-care flowcharts for seniors from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Medicare - the Official U.S. Government Site for Medical Information
The official U.S. goverment site for people with Medicare. This site features search tools, Medicare basics, health information, helpful contact information and more.
NIHSeniorHealth.gov
Developed by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIH Senior Health makes current, reliable aging-related health information easily accessible with features like text enlargement and a 'talking' function that reads text aloud.
Women
FamilyDoc.org: Women
Clear and simple patient handouts, fact sheets, and self-care flowcharts on women's health from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
HealthyWomen.org
The National Women's Health Resource Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women make informed decisions about their health. Their web site, Healthy Women, provides information that is comprehensive, objective, and supported by an advisory council comprised of leading health and medical experts.
Women's Health (NOAH)
New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) provides selected, organized links to information on womens' health topics.
WomensHealth.gov
The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) is a service of the Office on Women's Health in the Deparment of Health and Human Services. The NWHIC provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's health information resources.
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