Topics beginning with 'C'

Child health and development Chronic disease and healthy aging Communicable diseases Consumer health Correctional health

• CDC National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
  
  
• Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
  Explores ways to strengthen the well-being of children and youth through effective health programs and health care services in schools.
  
  
• ChildStats: America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being
  Access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
  
  
• Child Welfare Information Gateway
  Connecting professionals and concerned citizens to practical, timely, and essential information on programs, research, legislation, and statistics to promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families.
  
  
• Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health
  Allows users to search and compare data from the National Survey of Children’s Health and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs.
  
  
• Kids Count
  A national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Allows users to create custom data reports, city profiles, and download related publications.
  
  
• Maternal and Child Health Data
  US Department of Health and Human Services link to maternal and child health data, resources, and publications.
  
  
• Maternal and Child Health Library
  The Maternal and Child Health Library, part of the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH), at Georgetown University, is a pathway to websites, databases, bibliographies, and related resources.
  
  
• Media Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active!
  Media Smart Youth is an interactive website designed to help teach young people, age 11 to 13, “about the complex media world around them, and how it can affect their health--especially in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.”
  
  
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Healthy Youth
  In addition to providing information on school health and youth oriented health topics, CDC’s interactive website allows visitors to explore Youth Risk Behavior Survey data by location, across seven health topics.
  
  
• Safe Schools Coalition
  A public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth seeking to reduce bias-based bullying and violence in schools and to help schools better meet the needs of sexual minority youth and children with sexual minority parents/guardians locally, nationally and internationally.
  
  
• U.S. Variations in Child Health System Performance: A State Scorecard
  This report examines variations among states' child health care systems, focusing on 20 performance indicators of access, quality, costs, equity, and the potential to lead healthy lives.
  
  
• VERB Youth Media Campaign
  This national, multicultural, social marketing campaign, coordinated by the CDC, encourages young people ages 9-13 years to be physically active every day.
  
  
• Washington State Healthy Youth Survey and Report (2010)
  Identifies trends in patterns of behavior over time with regard to safety and violence, physical activity and diet, alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, and related risk and protective factors.
  
  
• WIC Works Resource Center
  A source of nutrition service tools for health and nutrition professionals.

• Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
  Supports work on the legal, ethical, and policy implications of problems in health, environment, and the life sciences.
  
  
• National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
  A non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public and healthcare professionals about the causes, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.
  
  
• Network on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus Aureus
  Network of basic scientists, clinical microbiologists, and clinical investigators that focus on S. aureus and other staphylococcal species that exhibit antimicrobial resistance.
  
  
• Northwest Mosquito and Vector Control Association (NMVCA)
  NMVCA'S objective is to enhance public health and quality of life, and to increase awareness and promote education on the importance of integrated vector management.

• TranStat: Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study
  The TranStat tool was locally developed to enable field personnel and researchers to enter and revise data from outbreaks.

• Healia Search Engine
  This search engine is designed to find authoritative, high quality online health information. Search results can be filtered according to gender, age, heritage (African, Asian, Hispanic, Native), and reading level.
  
  
• HealthWise
  A consumer health information database sponsored by Group Health Cooperative.
  
  
• MayoClinic.com
  Information on diseases and conditions, drugs and supplements, treatment decisions, healthy living, and health tools. Features include their Symptom Checker and First Aid Guide.
  
  
• MedlinePlus: Consumer Health Information
  The National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health preeminent consumer health website includes over 700 topics on conditions, diseases and wellness, a drugs and supplements database, medical encyclopedia, and other useful resources.
  
  
• Puget Sound Health Alliance: Health in Plain Terms
  Resources to help consumers get the health information they need and to help doctors and other providers talk about health in terms that make sense to their patients.
  

• Academy of Correctional Health Professional
  
  
• American Correctional Association
  
  
• American Correctional Health Services Association
  
  
• CDC Correctional Health Homepage
  Fosters collaboration between public health organizations and the criminal justice system by providing information on correctional health care issues to health care providers, the people they serve, and the general public.
  
  
• National Commission on Correctional Healthcare
  Committed to improving the quality of health care in jails, prisons, and juvenile confinement facilities.
  
  
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
  The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of the more than 185,000 criminal justice publications housed in the NCJRS Library collection.
  
  
• National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System
  Expanding access to community based services for adults diagnosed with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders at all points of contact with the justice system.
  
  
• Society of Correctional Physicians