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Internet Resources for
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Disclaimer: This is a collection of Internet resources which support the academic study of health at Florida International University. It is designed for educational purposes only. If you have a medical problem, please contact your doctor or other healthcare professional.
See also: FIU Libraries: Databases for Health Services Administration
See also: FIU Libraries: Databases for Health Information Management
- Health Administration and Hospital Management
- Frequently updated links from the University of Pittsburgh's Falk Library of the Health Sciences.
- HealthWeb: Health Administration
- Includes links to sites for: health services administration, hospital management, health policy, and health research.
- Toolbox for Health Managers and Administrators
- This page done by Pam Pohly, a healthcare administrator and health administration graduate student, contains numerous links to relevant sites.
- Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy
- Accrediting Commission for Education in Health Services Administration
- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
- Clinical Information
- Includes links to AHCPR-supported Clinical Practice Guidelines, the text of Health Technology Assessment and Reviews (1990-2002), links to other sites related to medical treatment effectiveness, and more.
- American Academy of Medical Administrators
- American Association of Health Plans
- American College of Healthcare Executives
- American College of Medical Practice Executives
- American College of Physician Executives
- American Hospital Association's Resource Links for Hospital and Healthcare Leaders
- America's Best Hospitals (2003 Article from U.S. News and World Report Online)
- Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines Infobase
- From the Canadian Medical Association.
- CMS Data Compendium 2003
- CMS stands for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Prior to 2001, this was the Health Care Financing Administration.
- European Health Management Association
- Glossary of Health Care Terms
- Compiled by the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy.
- Health Insurance Data
- From the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Health News Links from Google
- Health Policy Gateway
- This site from Duke University's Center for Health Policy, Law and Management, has nicely organized links to health policy sites. Be sure to check out the link to Key Health Policy Issue Areas.
- Healthcare Intelligence Network
- Good set of links to relevant news headlines, plus a list of the top ten topics others are searching.
- Hospital eTool
- Nice guide to OSHA-related items in the health facility.
- Hospital Statistics via U.S. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
- HospitalWeb - Index of Hospitals on the World Wide Web
- Frequently updated links to hospital homepages (international in scope) provided by the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
- HSTAT (Health Services Technology Assessment Text)
- HSTAT provides access to the full-text of documents useful in health care decision making, including: clinical practice guidelines, AHCPR-sponsored evidence reports and technology assessment reports, treatment protocols, and much more.
- ICD-9 Coding Resources
- ICD-10-PCS Coding System and Training Manual
- JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)
- Medical Group Management Association
- National Association of Health Services Executives
- National Guidelines Clearinghouse
- Database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. This site is sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- National Health Policy Links
- Links to other state, federal, and national health policy sites -- from the Oregon Health Plan Policy and Research Administrator's Office.
- National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology
- New York Times Health Page
- Quality Resource Library
- Healthcare quality and resource management links from Brown-Spath and Associates.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Policies & Reguations
- Biological Warfare
- From the National Library of Medicine, this site provides full-text discussion of diseases, links to relevant websites, and lists of relevant articles (many full-text), and books.
- Chemical Warfare Agents
- From the National Library of Medicine, this site provides full-text discussion of chemical agents, government resources, links to relevant websites, lists of relevant books, and links to MedlinePlus full-text reports on bioterrorism and chemical weapons.
- MEL: Bioterrorism
- Links from the Michigan Electronic Library project.
- NewsBank Special Report on Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear Terrorism
- Terrorism and Public Health
- Detailed information provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
- American Journal of Public Health: Ethics
- AJPH site with abstracts of articles on ethics.
- Bibliography of Bioethics
- The library has the print version of this index in the Abstracts and Indexes section at R724.B5.
- Bioethics Abstracting Service
- Indexes publications on ethical, legal and public policy issues surrounding health care and biomedical research.
- Bioethics Databases (Johns Hopkins University)
- Two databases, ETHX on the Web, and Genetics and Ethics, are available to search for: books, book chapters, journal articles, bills, laws, court decisions, and news articles.
- Bioethics News from CNN
- Bioethics News from MSNBC
- Bioethics Organizations
- Bioethics Resources on the Web
- Compiled by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
- Bioethics: the Catholic Perspective
- Full-text materials compiled by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
- Bioethics Thesaurus
- Thesaurus of bioethics terms used when searching NLM databases, e.g., Medline.
- BioethicsWeb
- Hardin
MD: Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
- A "directory of directories", Hardin links to comprehensive resource lists in health-related subjects.
- Health.gov
- This is the U.S. government gateway to health sites.
- HealthWeb
- Excellent starting point with organized access to reviewed sites and useful annotations.
- MedWeb
- Biomedical Internet resources from Emory University Health Sciences Center Library. Search by country, region, keyword - lots of useful links - few annotations.
- MEL: Health Information Resources
- Very good site from the Michigan Electronic Library. Arranged by category - lots of useful links - many are annotated.
- OMNI: Browse Quality Medical Resources
- OMNI is a project of the University of Nottingham, England, to identify and organize health-related Internet sites. A particular goal of the group was to provide comprehensive links to sites originating in the U.K., but there are lots of outside links. Search by keyword or browse by broad topic arrangement or by MeSH term.
- Databases for Health and Medicine
- Extensive, annotated list of databases, many free to anyone, some only available to current FIU students and staff.
- MedlinePlus
- Full-text health information on diseases and conditions, preventive medicine, drugs, clinical trials, physician and hospital directories, a medical encyclopedia, medical dictionary, plus links to Medline citations. Also available in Spanish.
- Medline User Guides
- Bioethics Databases
- Two databases, ETHX on the Web, and Genetics and Ethics, index journal articles, book chapters, reports, court decisions, news articles, and more. Provided by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.
- Cancer.gov
- Links to the National Cancer Institute's PDQ database where you can search for information about cancer treatment, screening, supportive care, and current clinical trials. Also links to CancerLit, a database of citations and abstracts from over 4,000
different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses.
- CDC Wonder
- Search the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) website for reports, guidelines and public health data.
- CHEM ID PLUS
- This is a chemical dictionary file for over 336,000 compounds of biomedical and regulatory interest. Records include CAS Registry Numbers and other identifying numbers, molecular formulae, generic names, trivial names, other synonyms, and MeSH headings.
- CHID (Combined Health Information Database)
- CHID is an index to government-produced consumer health materials on about 20 health topics. It provides citations and references to these materials and frequently provides a link to a relevant website on the topic. It also contains summaries for some of the materials. It does not provide the full-text of any of the materials.
- CRIS (Current Research Information Service) from the USDA
- CRIS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry.
- FAOSTAT -- Food and Agriculture Organization Statistics
- FAOSTAT is an online, multilingual database covering international statistics in: production, trade, food balance sheets, food aid shipments, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forestry products, fishery products and population.
- Hazardous Chemical Database
- Provides chemical name, CAS, EINECS, RTEC, and UN numbers; formula, structure, description, chemical and physical properties, hazards and protection, fire-related info, health-related info, and shipping info.
- Ingenta
- Formerly called UnCover, this database is not specifically for medicine but extremely useful for health. This is an index to more than 27,000 journals in many disciplines. You can search by words in the title of articles or by the name of an author. You can also find the table of contents for a specific issue of a specific journal. It is very up-to-date and is especially useful for checking the tables of contents of journals not available at FIU.
- Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide Database
- Searchable by diagnosis, drug, pathogen. Includes a current news section and more in-depth features.
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
- This database is a searchable catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. It contains text, pictures, references, and links to related Medline abstracts.
- OVID Free Database of the Month
- You'll have to register, but it is free. Each month, database provider OVID will make one of their databases available for free searching. Not all of their databases are health-related.
- RxList - The Internet Drug Index
- Information on more than 1,300 drugs including full prescribing information and side effects. Includes a list of the 200 most prescribed drugs. Seachable by drug name, keyword, imprint code, NDC, and medical terminology.
- Sequence Analysis Reference Database
- Searchable database of bibliograpic records (citations to articles and papers, 1995-96) dealing with analysis of biomolecular sequences.
- USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
- Search by ONE keyword to display all items in the database with that keyword (including brandnames). In the resulting list, click on the product you want. Then select the quantity/weight you want and click on "report" to get the report of nutrient values.
- Vermont SIRI Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) Collection and Search Engine
- Material Safety Data Sheets are required by OSHA to be made available by the manufacturer. Each MSDS contains information related to risks and safety requirements for a product. This database is searchable by: manufacurer name (or partial name), CAS number, NSN number, and product name. You can also search for toxicology reports on products by: chemical name, trade name, CAS or RTECS number.
- Biomedicine
and Health in the News
- This site provided by the University of Connecticut Health Center Library
provides access to the biomedical, scientific, and health journal literature
referenced in articles appearing in the New York Times, especially articles that announce
new research findings and refer to current or forthcoming publications. Links to the cited journals
are given when available. Also links to a similar service for articles appearing in the
Minnesota Star. Updated four times per week.
- CNN - Health
- Medical Breakthroughs
- Updated daily to bring you the latest in medical breakthroughs. Includes a searchable archives. You can even sign up to receive email notification of the latest breakthroughs.
- MSNBC: Health
- News.Google.Health
- Links to full text health-related articles from more than 4,500 news sources.
- Reuters - Health
See also: FIU Libraries: Databases for Nursing
Many of the following links are recommended by medical librarian Peg Allen, a consultant to CINAHL. In this section, annotations provided by Peg are identified in quotes.
See also: FIU Libraries: Databases for Dietetics and Nutrition
- American Dietetic Association
- American Dietetic Association Food and Nutrition Information
- Links to full-text resources.
- American Dietetic Association Journal
- American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition
- American Society for Clinical
Nutrition
- Arbor Nutrition
Guide
- ASK the Dietician
- Takes a while for the pages to load but it's worth the wait. Includes:
questions and answers by category.
- Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition
- CRIS (Current Research Information Service) from the USDA
- CRIS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry.
- Diagnosis and Management of Foodborne Illnesses: a Primer for Physicians
- FAOSTAT -- Food and Agriculture Organization Statistics
- FAOSTAT is an online, multilingual database covering international statistics in: production, trade, food balance sheets, food aid shipments, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forestry products, fishery products and population.
- FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
- Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC)
- Food and Nutrition Topics (FNIC)
- Food Guide Pyramid: a Guide to Daily Food Choices
- Food Laws and Regulations
- Current links maintained by the Institute of Food Technologists.
- Food Safety.gov
- This is the gateway to U.S. Government information on food safety.
- Foodborne Disease Control: a Transnational Challenge
- This article is from Emerging Infectious Diseases October-December 1997.
- Foodborne Illness
- Full-text info and links from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
- Global Health Micronutrient Malnutrition
- Guide to Herbs and other Dietary Supplements
- From the U.S. Food and Nutrition Information Center.
- HealthWeb: Nutrition
- Be sure to check the list of links by category.
- Martindale's Virtual Nutrition Center
- MayoClinic.Com: Food and Nutrition Center
- MedWeb's Nutrition Links
- Nutrition and Food - Finding the Right Stuff
- This site compiled by Jean Fremont, RD, of the School of Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada has lots of useful nutrition links for nutrition professionals, consumers, and teachers. Brief annotations.
- Nutrition & Food Science (full-text access)
- Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of Foodborne Illnesses
- State of the World's Children 1998 (focus on nutrition)
- USDA Economics and Statistics Section Collection by Subject:
Food
- USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
- Search by ONE keyword to display all items in the database with that keyword (including brandnames). In the resulting list, click on the product you want. Then select the quantity/weight you want and click on "report" to get the report of nutrient values.
- Links to other food composition pages
- US Dept. of Agriculture Economics and Statistics System
- Provides access to data and full-text reports on many areas of U.S. and international agriculture, food and related areas, including: production, expenditures, consumption, trade, weather, conservation, prices, and population projections.
- Virtual
Hospital: Iowa Health Book: Dietary
- Nutrition information for the patient.
- World Bank: Food and Agriculture Issues
- World Health Organization Links to Food Safety Sites
- Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- American Industrial Hygiene Association
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Safety and Health Statistics
- Access to info and statistics on illnesses, injuries, and fatalities on the job.
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
- CDC National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
- Critical Appraisal of Environmental and Occupational Health Literature
- Directory of Sites in Occupational & Environmental Health
- Nice links from the University of Edinburgh.
- Hazardous Chemical Database
- Provides chemical name, CAS, EINECS, RTEC, and UN numbers; formula, structure, description, chemical and physical properties, hazards and protection, fire-related info, health-related info, and shipping info.
- Health, Environment, and Work
- Good links to websites on occupational and environmental health, and interactive tutorials.
- Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (2003)
- The second annual report from the CDC assessing the U.S. population's exposure to environmental chemicals.
- Industrial Hygiene and Safety Web Sites
- Compiled by the American Industrial Hygiene Association
- Introduction to Applied Toxicology
- MedWeb: Occupational Health and Safety
- NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)
- National Library of Medicine Toxicology Tutorials.
- National Safety Council
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- OSHWeb Directory of Occupational Safety and Health Sites
- Report on Carcinogens (2002)
- Latest edition of the U.S. Government's biennial report on carcinogens.
- Searching, Appraising, and Citing Environmental and Occupational Health Information on the Internet
- Tox Town
- Primarily for the layperson, this is an interactive website from the NIH to guide the average person through a typical town to discover common locations of toxic substances. Includes links to relevant information.
- Toxicology and Environmental Health
- U.S. government gateway to numerous toxicological and environmental databases, Internet resources, hazardous chemical maps, and consumer health resources.
- Toxicology Glossary
- TOXNET
- Databases on toxicology, environmental health, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
- Vermont SIRI Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) Collection and Search Engine
- Doctor Koop: Drug Checker
- This searchable database allows you to search for possible interactions between two or more drugs.
- MedlinePlus Drug Information
- RxList - The Internet Drug Index
- Information on more than 1,300 drugs including full prescribing information and side effects. Includes a list of the 200 most prescribed drugs. Seachable by drug name, keyword, imprint code, NDC, and medical terminology.
- Virtual
Library: Pharmacy
- Links to pharmacy schools, pharmaceutical companies, listserv info, journals, conferences, and more.
See also: FIU Libraries: Databases for Public Health
See also: Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety
- AMA Physician Select Doctor Finder
- Searchable directory of more than 690,000 doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine, including "virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions".
- AMA Style for Citing References
- The print edition of the American Medical Association Manual of Style is available in the Reference section of the Biscayne Bay Campus at Reference R119.A533 1998. At University Park, it is available in the Reserve Room at R119 .A533 1989.
- American Dental Association Member Directory
- You may have to accept their disclaimer first, but then you can search for ADA member dentists by name, speciality, or geographic location.
- American Hospital Directory - Comparative Hospital Data, Statistics, Information
- America's Best Hospitals (2003 Article from U.S. News and World Report Online)
- Changing America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-being by Race and Hispanic Origin -- Health Chapter (1999)
- Complete Home Medical Guide (3d edition, 1995)
- From the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
- Diagnostic Procedures (from NOAH)
- Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (3rd edition)
- The above site is for the basic dictionary. For a future site with more enhancements keep checking at this site.
- Glossary of Health Care Terms
- Compiled by the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy.
- Health United States 2003 with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans
- This is one of the major sources for U.S. health statistics - over 400 pages (in pdf format) with an index and a very useful table of contents. Covers a variety of topics, including: morbidity, mortality, health care expenditures, health care access and utilization, health behavior, and much more. Earlier editions (1975 - 2002) are available
at the bottom of this page.
- Health United States 2002 with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans
- Health United States 2001 with Urban and Rural Chartbook
- Health United States 2000 with Adolescent Health Chartbook
- Health United States 1999 with Health and Aging Chartbook
- Health United States 1998
- Socioeconomic Status and Health Chartbook - 1998
- Hosford Muscle Tables
- Human Anatomy Online
- Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
- This regularly updated site provides links to author instructions for more than 3,500 journals in the health sciences.
- Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide Database
- Searchable by diagnosis, drug, pathogen. Includes a current news section and more in-depth features.
- Martindale's Virtual Medical Center
- Medical Schools of the U.S. and Canada
- MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary
- MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
- MedWeb:
Educational Resources
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (1999)
- Merck Manual of Geriatrics (3rd edition - 2000)
- Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary (1997)
- Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
- Muscles Tutorial
- Pictorial
Periodic Table
- Searchable and it includes links to chemical and physical properties
of the elements, as well as links to scores of other periodic tables designed
for various purposes. Another periodic table is available here.
- RxList - The Internet Drug Index
- Information on more than 1,300 drugs including full prescribing information and side effects. Includes a list of the 200 most prescribed drugs. Seachable by drug name, keyword, imprint code, NDC, and medical terminology.
- Univ.
of Arkansas Medical School Department of Anatomy - Anatomy Tables
- Virtual Hospital: Iowa Health Book -- Patient Information
- Virtual Hospital:
Information for Healthcare Providers
- Virtual Hospital: University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook (2001)
- American Hospital Directory - Comparative Hospital Data, Statistics, Information
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Safety and Health Statistics
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Data and Statistics
- Changing America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin -- Health
- Directory of (U.S.) Health and Human Services Data Resources
- FAOSTAT -- Food and Agriculture Organization Statistics
- FAOSTAT is an online, multilingual database covering international statistics in: production, trade, food balance sheets, food aid shipments, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forestry products, fishery products and population.
- Health Care Financing Administration: Stats and Data
- The title of this agency has been changed to "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services".
- Health United States 2003 with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans
- This is one of the major sources for U.S. health statistics - over 400 pages (in pdf format) with an index and a very useful table of contents. Covers a variety of topics, including: morbidity, mortality, health care expenditures, health care access and utilization, health behavior, and much more. Earlier editions (1975 - 2002) are available
at the bottom of this page.
- Health United States 2002 with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans
- Health United States 2001 with Urban and Rural Chartbook
- Health United States 2000 with Adolescent Health Chartbook
- Health United States 1999 with Health and Aging Chartbook
- Health United States 1998
- Socioeconomic Status and Health Chartbook - 1998
- International Health Data Reference Guide (1999)
- Kids Count 2003 Data Online
- Searchable database of statistics on the health and welfare of children in the United States. You can view data by state or nation as a whole. And you can download data into your own software -- or create graphs, maps, and ranking lists -- and view them online.
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- The Internet version of this weely statistical review of U.S. reportable diseases and conditions includes links to the current issue as well as links to previous issues back to 1982. Use the search feature to search by keyword, volume, or date. Includes a link to the other MMWR sections: Recommendations and Reports, Surveillance Summaries, Supplements, and Summary of Notifiable Diseases.
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Center for Health Statistics: FaStats
- This site provides quick facts on a small selection of health topics. If you don't find what you need here, try Health United States for more complete coverage of health statistics for the United States.
Health U.S. is one of the major sources for U.S. health statistics - over 400 pages (in pdf format) with an index and a very useful table of contents. Covers a variety of topics, including: morbidity, mortality, health care expenditures, health care access and utilization, health behavior, and much more. Earlier editions of Health U.S. (1975-2001) are available
at this site.
- University of Chicago's Intro to Health Statistics
- Note the links on the left side of the page to guides for statistics on specific topics. Each guide contains an introduction, lists of: books, journals, and Internet sites, and other data sources. Note that while the information on books and journals applies to the collections of the University of Chicago Libraries -- the FIU libraries will have many of those sources. Check the FIU Library Catalog to verify their availability and location.
- University of Michigan's Links to Health Statistics on the Internet
- US Dept. of Agriculture Economics and Statistics System
- Provides access to data and full-text reports on many areas of U.S. and international agriculture, food and related areas, including: production, expenditures, consumption, trade, weather, conservation, prices, and population projections.
- WHO (World Health
Organization) Statistical Information System -- WHOSIS
- This is a guide to health-related statistics from the World Health Organization. You can browse the WHO links by topic, or search the entire WHO database by keyword. Some links lead directly to online statistics or reports, other links lead to information about the statistical source or to the webpage for the WHO unit with responsibility for that topic.
- World Health Report 2003
- Previous reports from 1995 - 2002 are available here.
Criteria for Selection:
Sites were chosen based on content, organization, frequency
of updates, unrestricted access, ease of use, and potential relevance to FIU students and faculty. The content and organization of this page will continually evolve -- i welcome your comments and suggestions. If you didn't find what you wanted on this page please
let us know.
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