Medicine, Health, and Nursing: Web Resources

"This course describes the range of available health statistics, identifies their sources and helps you understand how to use information about their structure as you search."

A CDC site to document, monitor, and disseminate information about public health to help guide actions and policies to improve the health of the nation.

Date from the World Health Organization's member states. Offers wide geographic coverage and provides data that may be hard to find in other sources.

The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) is the primary state health agency for the state of Alabama.

CIDRAP, part of a consortium of programs and centers at the University of Minnesota, provides this authoritative, comprehensive site on a wide range of topics, including infectious diseases, bioterrorism and food safety.

Houston Cole Library's Emergency Management resource guide.

The objective of the website is to make information about culture, language, health, illness and community resources directly accessible to health care providers who see patients from different ethnic groups.

Comprehensive site that provides details on the impact of the 1918-19 epidemic on 50 U.S. cities.

The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Earth Institute of Columbia University works to understand and improve the nation’s capacity to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters.

U.S. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. Public health and emergency for a nation prepared.

ASNA is committed to promoting excellence in nursing

"The American Nurses Association (ANA) is the only full-service professional organization representing the interests of the nation's 3.1 million registered nurses through its constituent and state nurses associations and its organizational affiliates."

Promotes excellence in nursing education.

The National Student Nurses' Association mentors the professional development of future registered nurses and facilitates their entrance into the profession by providing educational resources, leadership opportunities, and career guidance.

NCCAM conducts and supports research and provides information about complementary health products and practices.

This website provides high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative medicine including dietary supplements and integrative therapies.

Flu information including prevention , treatment, news, and activity and surveillance maps, mobile apps, interactive data and much more.

Information on Zika virus including locations, symptoms and treatment and fact sheets and posters and much more.

From the National Library of Medicine, this site's objective is improving access to disaster health information. Topics include disaster type, emergency response tools, and librarians and disasters.

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.

Dedicated to improving the health and health care of Americans through funding of nursing research and research training.

The Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University is an interdisciplinary and multi-format collection on ethical issues related to health care, biomedical research, biotechnology, and the environment.

The Department of Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health has three research groups:
Research Ethics, Ethics and Genetics, and Ethics and Health Policy.

Resources for health-related careers, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration under the leadership of the American Association of Community Colleges

"The profiles featured here cover hundreds of occupations and describe What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more." From the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

The American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) is a professional organization open to everyone interested in the history of nursing.