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