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Government Resources and Agencies
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Healthcare 411 (News Series from AHRQ)
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
CDC Growth Charts
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
The Cool Spot - The Young Teen's Place for Info on Alcohol and Resisting Peer Pressure
Division of Adolescent and School Health (within the CDC)
Emergency Medical Services for Children - A national initiative designed to reduce child and youth disability and death due to severe illness and injury. Medical personnel, parents and volunteers, community groups and businesses, and national organizations and foundations all contribute to the effort.
Girl Power! (through DHHS)
HealthierUS (Prevention Strategies)
Healthfinder (through DHHS) - Healthfinder (Spanish-language)
Health Resources and Services Administration (through DHHS)
Healthy People (through DHHS)
Immunization Works! - a CDC newsletter
InsureKidsNow.gov
Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) (through DHHS)
Child Health USA (child health stats and charts from the MCHB)
Material and Child Health Library
MEDLINEplus Health Information (through National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
National Asthma Education and Prevention Program
National Center for Education Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
National Commission on Children and Disasters
National Council on Folic Acid (through the CDC)
National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention
National Health Information Center (through DHHS)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Health
National Institute on Nursing Research
National Library of Medicine
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
National Women's Health Information Center
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) (through DHHS)
National Health Information Center (Health Observance Calendar from ODPHP)
Office of the Surgeon General
Office of the Surgeon General: Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (through CDC)
StopBullyingNow!
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (through DHHS)
"Thomas" - Federal Legislative Information
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
U.S. Senate
Health Related Sites
Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics, Inc.
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
American Academy of Dermatology
American Academy of Family Physicians and (Tar Wars)
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
American Academy of Ophthalmology
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
American Association of Orthodontists
American Association of Poison Control Centers
American Association on Mental Retardation
American Chiropractic Association
American College of Emergency Physicians
American Council for Drug Education
American Diabetes Association
American Heart Association (Council on Cardiovascular Nursing)
American Hospital Association
American Lung Association
American Medical Association
American Nurses Association
American Occupational Therapy Association
American Physical Therapy Association
American Psychological Association
American Public Health Association
American Red Cross
American School Health Association
American Social Health Association
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
Cardiac Arrhythmias Research and Education (C.A.R.E.)
Celiac Disease Foundation
Celiac Spruce Association
The Center for Health Care Strategies
Center for Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Children of Alcoholics Foundation
The Children’s Defense Fund
Children’s Environmental Health Network
Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO)
Consumer Healthcare Products Association
Council for Exceptional Children
Cross Cultural Health Care Program
Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
Epilepsy Classroom
Epilepsy Foundation of America
Every Child by Two
Exceptional Parent
Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network
Food Research and Action Center
Gay Lesbian International Search Engine
Gluten Intolerance Group of North America
Hepatitis Foundation International
Immunization Action Coalition
KidsHealth (The Nemours Foundation Center for Children's Health Media)
Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free
March of Dimes
Mayo Clinic
Medical-Legal Consulting Institute, Inc.
The National Academies
National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc. (Adolescent & School Health Initiative)
National Association of State Head Injury Administrators
National Center for Victims of Crime
National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics
National Crime Prevention Council
National Food Processors Association
National Foundation for Celiac Awareness
National Health Council
National Health Law Program
National Health, Lung and Blood Institute
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
National Kidney Foundation
National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
National Meningitis Association
National Mental Health Association
National Runaway Switchboard
National Scoliosis Foundation
Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases (PKIDs Online) & Pertussis resources from PKIDs Online
Periodic Paralysis Resource Center
Prevent Blindness America
Screening for Mental Health
See It and Stop It (The Family Violence Prevention Fund materials for teens on violence prevention)
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Spina Bifida Association of America
Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes Foundation
Vaccine Education Center (The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)
WHO CARES: Chronic Illness in America
Nursing Related Sites
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
American Nurses Association
American Nurses Foundation
Exceptional Nurse (Nurses with Disabilities)
National Board for Certification of School Nurses
National Council of State Boards of Nursing
National League for Nursing
National Nursing Staff Development Organization
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties
Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs
Organizations for Professionals and/or Agencies related to Education
American Association of School Administrators
American Camp Association
American College Health Association
American School Counselor Association
American School Health Association
American Federation of Teachers
Council of Chief State School Officers
National Alliance of Pupil Services Organizations
National Association of Elementary School Principals
National Association of School Psychologists
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Association of State Boards of Education (home of Healthy Schools: State-Level School Health Policies)
National Association of State School Nurse Consultants
National Athletic Trainers' Association
National Education Association Practice Resources
American Healthcare Institute
American Medical ID
American Nurses Association
Bandaides & Blackboards – When Chronic Illness or Some Other Medical Problem Goes to School
The Center for Health & Health Care in Schools
Education Development Center
International Association for Continuing Education and Training
National Association of State School Nurse Consultants
National Board for Certification of School Nurses
National Education Association
National Program for Playground Safety (by the University of Northern Iowa)
SchoolAsthmaAllergy.com
Office of School Health (from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center)
School Health Resources for Pediatricians (by AAP Section on School Health & COSH)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Specialty Nursing Organizations
Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
American Assembly for Men in Nursing
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses
American Holistic Nurses Association
American Nephrology Nurses’ Association
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
American Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgical Nurses, Inc.
Association of Camp Nurses
Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
Association of Women's Health, Obstetic & Neonatal Nurses
Dermatology Nurses Association
Developmental Disabilities Nurses Association
Emergency Nurses Association
Home Healthcare Nurses Association
Infusion Nurses Society
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
National Association of Hispanic Nurses
National Association of Neonatal Nurses
National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health
National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Assoc. & Practitioners
National Association of School Nurses for the Deaf
National Association of State School Nurse Consultants
National Black Nurses Association, Inc.
National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses
National Student Nurses Association
Oncology Nursing Society
Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates, Inc.
Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses, Inc.
Society of Urologic Nurses & Associates Inc.
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