• Latest information on Pandemic Flu from the United States Department of Health and Human Services:
  English: http://www.pandemicflu.gov
  Spanish:http://www.pandemicflu.gov/espanol/
  

• Better Health for Mother and Baby - Multicultural Health Handout
  http://multiculturalhealth.org/
  

• Dr. Koop’s Preventionnaire – personalized confidential interactive health risk appraisal survey
  http://www.drkoop.com/wellness/prevention/advice.asp

• Personal Health Guide: Put Prevention Into Practice
  http://www.ahrq.gov/ppip/adguide/

• Child Health Guide: Put Prevention Into Practice
  http://www.ahrq.gov/ppip/childguide/

• Medical Self-care for Common Health Conditions – Women’s health, men’s health, children’s health, first aid
  http://www.healthy.net/home/medicalselfcare.htm

• Vitality.com -- Self-care information for men and women, plus a daily wellness tip
  http://www.vitality.com

• American Medical Association Preventive Health Services by Age and Procedure for Adolescents and Young Adults
  http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1947.html
  

• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
  Ten Leading Causes of Death
  http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/factsheets/ChronicDisease/

• Accident Causes and Prevention
  http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/menu/topic/injury.html

• Ergonomic Guidelines – working with computers
  http://www.fiu.edu/~ehs/general_safety/general_ergonomics_video.htm

• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
  http://www.cpsc.gov

• American Red Cross
  http://www.redcross.org

• National Safety Council
  http://www.nsc.org

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  http://www.osha.gov

• Heat Emergencies
  http://www.drkoop.com/ency/93/000056.html
  

• Latest SARS Policy from American College Health Association
  
• Latest SARS Information (Important information from Dr. Dollinger, Robert)

All students who have arrived from an affected area who develop either fever of greater than 100.4 OR respiratroy symptoms (cough, shortness of breath) within the first 10 days of arrival, need to be seen by a medical practitioner -- either at the Health Care and Wellness Center (Mondays through Fridays from 8AM to 5PM), or at an ER or ambulatory clinic on weekends and after 5PM weekdays. All such students should call the HCWC in advance of their arrival to allow our staff opportunity to provide an isolated waiting environment for these students. If any students actually have symptoms according to the CDC case definition, they will be referred by our physicians to the Miami-Dade Public Health Department.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at (305)348-3080.
Thank you.

Robert Dollinger, M.D.
Executive Director, University Health Services
 

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sites:

Fact Sheets, Basic Information

SARS information in various languages (including Spanish, Chinese, and French)

Information for Travelers

Recommendations for Schools, Students

Isolation and Quarantine

Recommendations for the General Workplace Environment

Info for Clinicians

• World Health Organization (WHO) sites:

WHO SARS Website, features regular updates regarding cumulative SARS cases by country

WHO Travel Advisories

WHO Guidelines, recommendations and descriptions

WHO Media, Press Releases

WHO International Health Resources (includes the CDC, Health Canada, European Commission, and governmental health sites for China, Hong Kong, Singapore, France, Germany, and other countries)

WHO images (features cool photo of coronavirus)

• Other U.S. sites:

National Institutes of Health (General information, research)

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

American Medical Association

SARS information in various languages

• Fact Sheets for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Adolescents
  http://www.siecus.org/pubs/fact/fact0013.html
  
   
• Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
  http://www.glma.org
   

• Homosexuality: Choice or Fixed Orientation?
  http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_fixe.htm

• Online Sexual Disorders Screenings
  • For Women
    http://www.med.nyu.edu/Psych/screens/sdsf.html

• For Men
  http://www.med.nyu.edu/Psych/screens/sdsm.html
   

• Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
  http://www.healthy.net/library/books/healthyself/womens/pms.htm

• Sexual Orientation and Identity
  http://www.siecus.org/links/links.html#ORIE
  
   
• Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
  http://www.siecus.org

• Sexuality information from Columbia University "Go Ask Alice"
  • Sexual intercourse, abstinence, kissing, masturbation, etc.
    http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/Cat6.html
     

• Society for Human Sexuality

• Safer Sex
  http://safersex.org

• Youth Assistance Organization -- features information to help self-identifying gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth
  http://www.youth.org
  

• Safe Horizon
  

• American Social Health Association
  
   
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- general info on prevention and treatment
  http://www.unspeakable.com/truth.html

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases Prevention -- information from the CDC
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/disease_info.htm
  
   
• Unspeakable -The Naked Truth About STDs

• STD Quiz
  http://www.unspeakable.com/nph-survey.cgi?tag=std

• STD Risk Profiler -- take this simple test to see your relative risk of acquiring a STD
  http://www.unspeakable.com/profiler/profiler.html

• STD’s in Women -- from American Institute of Preventive Medicine
  http://www.healthy.net/library/books/healthyself/womens/std.htm

• Chlamydia
  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdclam.htm

• Human Papilloma Virus and Genital Warts
  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdhpv.htm

• Herpes
  http://www.cdc.gov/std/Herpes/STDFact-Herpes.htm

• Gonorrhea -- fact sheet
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dastlr/gcdir/gono.html

• Syphilis
  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdsyph.htm
  

• National Sleep Foundation
  http://www.sleepfoundation.org

• Better Sleep Council
  http://www.bettersleep.org

• American Sleep Disorders Association
  http://www.asda.org

• CDC Page on Smoking and Health: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
  http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco

• Do You Smoke? Do You Want to Quit? -- Consumer Information on Smoking Cessation
  http://www.ahrq.gov/path/tobacco.htm

• Clearing the Air: How to Quit Smoking … and Quit for Keeps
  http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_Pub_Interface/Clearing_the_Air/clearing.html

• The Great American Smoke-out – American Cancer Society -- interactive site
  http://www2.cancer.org/gas

• Quitting Smoking -- American Cancer Society
  http://www2.cancer.org/zine/index.cfm?fn=004_11181999_0

• American Lung Association Tobacco Control
  http://www.lungusa.org/tobacco/index.html

• Truth: The Facts about Tobacco – fun, interactive site
  http://www.wholetruth.com/asp/truth/truth.asp

• Cancer Facts and Figures – Tobacco Use 1997
  http://www.cancer.org/statistics/cff99/tobacco.html

• Smoking and Cancer – Oncolink from the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
  http://oncolink.upenn.edu/

• Smokeless Tobacco – CDC
  http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/factsheets/smokelesstobacco.htm

• Tackling Tobacco – from drkoop.com – site by the former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everette Koop
  http://www.drkoop.com/ency/93/002032.html

• The site is based on the character Joe Chemo, an anti-smoking parody of
  Joe Camel. The site is highly interactive and allows visitors to test their "Tobacco IQ," get a personalized "Smoke-o-Scope," and send free Joe Chemo E-Cards. There is also extensive information for teachers, anti-smoking activists, health care providers, journalists, and smokers who wish to quit.
  http://www.joechemo.org

• Stress Assess -- three internet assessment tools developed by the National Wellness Institute at the University of Wisconsin – Steven’s Point
  http://wellness.uwsp.edu/Other/stress/

• Stress Free NET
  http://www.stressfree.com/index.html

• Stress Busters
  http://www.fitnesslink.com/mind/stress.htm

• LessStress – a Learn-Well Distance Learning course from Griggs University
  http://www.learnwell.org/stress.htm

• Thoughts to Reduce Your Work Stress!
  http://stressrelease.com/strssbus.html

• How to Master Stress
  http://www.psychwww.com/mtsite/smpage.html

• Stress Facts for Young Adults – from the American Academy of Family Physicians
  http://familydoctor.org/handouts/278.html

• Stress at Work – from the CDC
  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/stresswk.html

• American Institute of Stress
  http://www.stress.org

• Medical Self-Care: Stress – Information from the American Institute of Preventive Medicine
  http://www.healthy.net/library/Books/Healthyself/stress.htm

• How to Survive Unbearable Stress, by Steven L. Burns, M.D.
  http://www.teachhealth.com

CLUB DRUGS

• http://www.clubdrugs.org
• http://www.trendydrugs.org
• http://www.drugabuse.gov
• http://www.ecstasy.org
• http://www.druguniversity.com
• http://www.smartbasics.com
• http://www.dea.gov
   
• BACCHUS and Gamma Peer Education Network
  
   
• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
  http://www.health.org

• Partnership for a Drug-free America -- most comprehensive site on different types of drugs
  http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/

• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) – U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
  http://www.samhsa.gov/Matrix/matrix_treatment.aspx

• D.A.R.E. -- Drug Abuse Resistance Education
  http://www.dare-america.com/index2.htm

• Project Know -- drug information from perspectives of kids, parents, and experts
  http://www.projectknow.com

• National Institute on Drug Abuse
  http://www.nida.nih.gov

• Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
  http://www.edc.org/hec

• Safe and Drug-free Schools Program – U.S. Department of Education
  http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/index.html

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  http://www.samhsa.gov

• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
  http://www.ncadd.org

• Information on Psychoactive Drugs, including photographs and uses
  http://www.erowid.org
  
   
• Marijuana self-assessment -- an excellent tool to determine how the use of marijuana is influencing your health as well as your academic, work, and social life.
  http://interwork.sdsu.edu/etoke/
  
   
• This comprehensive web site features a list of online references for the general public and health care professionals on the following topics:
  Addiction, addiction treatment, alcohol addiction, substance abuse addiction, street names for recreational drugs of abuse, prescription drug addiction, smoking addiction, eating disorders, and rehab programs.
  http://www.addiction.com/
  
  
• United State Department of Justice – Methamphetamine Awareness
  
  Methamphetamine abuse has become a tremendous challenge for the entire Nation. Education, prevention, and community involvement are key parts of our National Strategy to reduce the demand for meth. People who know about the destructive effects of meth on the user and the community, are far less likely to use meth. This web site features a description of methamphetamine, with color photos, a description on how meth is made and its affects on the user and on everyone else. This is an excellent reference source for the general public as well as health care professionals.
  
  http://www.usdoj.gov/methawareness/