North Carolina Health Information ~ International Health Information
Abortion Law Homepage is an award-winning site which provides links to all areas of abortion law, case law, federal and state statutes, etc.
Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality - AHRQ, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services.
U.S. Bureau of Census Data sites, for those who need demographic
information in conjunction with health information.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC Homepage
ChildStats.gov - offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment,and education.
CRISP - searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects
Environmental Health Information Service - Environmental Health Perspectives magazine and others, some full text free, all abstracts offered free, subscription required for unlimited access
Health and Human Services Department - information about HHS, press releases, and other HHS publications. Includes a very important Patients' Bill of Rights in Medicare and Medicaid document.
Health Resources
and Services Administration - HRSA assures the availability
of quality health care to low income, uninsured, isolated,
vulnerable and special needs populations. Searches can be
implemented using the Resources
and Referral Database, and a useful HRSA
Data and Statistics site is available.
Insure Kids Now is
another HRSA program which appears to be the new site
for the "SCHIP" program. Also a State
Programs Links site for "Insure Kids Now".
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - formerly the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), this is now the umbrella agency for Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments). Includes a very important Medicare and Medicaid Program Instructions - Manuals site, with full text links.
Official Medicare Site - with a comprehensive Nursing Homes section with Nursing Homes Comparisons, and a Medicare Eligibility, Enrollment, & Premiums Overview site.
Official Medicaid Site - The Center for Medicaid and State Operations Internet Information. Includes the very important State Medicaid Programs links site.
Healthfinder - The National Institutes of Health gateway to consumer health information
Mental Help Net - non-government, mental health site with definitions of mental health problems, sources of counseling and more
National Council on Disability - disability issues discussed, with brochures and publications for parents and students
National Institutes of Health - primary federal agency for all biomedical research, with links to over 25 NIH agencies and institutes. The NIH Health Information Index is an excellent A-Z subject guide to research information, publications and pamphlets of the NIH
National Institute of Nursing Research - supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across the life span. Includes a Publications site, and a Links site, with a useful Nursing Organizations list which even includes links to major nursing journals.
Bureau of Health Professions Nursing Resources - a wide variety of online reports concerning nursing education, employment, statistics, grants, and many other useful topics. Includes the very important Preliminary Findings: 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses.
National Library of Medicine - the world's largest medical library, a division of the National Institutes of Health
Office For Human Research Protections and Office of Human Subjects Research - the primary federal agencies which set policy for the use of human subjects in research
The Surgeon General's Reports - Lists virtually all such reports, dating from 1964 to the present, covering topics such as HIV/AIDS, smoking and tobacco use, violence, and nutrition . ONLY those from 1994 onward are available online, full text. Earlier reports may be found in the Government Documents Department of the Jackson Library.
