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GENERAL HEALTH RESOURCES SITES

About.com, formerly The Mining Company, is an internet site that is a resource for many topics. The page links to several online sources for health topics. - http://about.com/health

A general medical site, with links to various resources - http://www.drkoop.com

RURAL HEALTH

National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health - NOSORH's purpose is to foster and promote legislation, information exchange, education, and liaison activities with all State Offices of Rural Health, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the National Rural Health Association, and other organizations. - http://www.ruralcenter.org/nosorh/

US Department of Health and Human Services Federal Office of Rural Health Policy- Information on grant funding, information on rural health policy and outreach efforts. - http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov

Rural Information Center Health Services (RICHS) is a joint project of the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP), Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Agricultural Library (NAL), United States Department of Agriculture. RICHS collects and disseminates information on rural health issues. http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/richs/

National Farm Medicine Center exists to improve the health of people involved with agricultural systems and products and provides a variety of research, education, outreach, consulting and testing services - all aimed at improving the health of those involved in agriculture. http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/nfmc/

TRAUMA

American Trauma Society - http://www.amtrauma.org

Emergency Medical Services for Children - http://www.ems-c.org

Clinical Data Management (CDM) - Provider of research-oriented quality assessment software, which is used by trauma centers, pediatric hospitals, surgical departments, anesthesiology departments and teaching hospitals all over the world. http://www.c-d-m.com

EMSystem - Software provider, one of whose products is an Internet based program that tracks diversion status of hospital Emergency Departments. http://www.EMSystem.com

HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

National Civic League Healthy Communities Programs - http://www.ncl.org/cs/services/healthycommunities.html

International Healthy Cities Foundation and Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities: These two organizations now share a web site. http://www.healthycommunities.org

Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) - http://www.nwu.edu/IPR/abcd.html

GOVERNMENT HEALTH AGENCIES

Ohio Department of Mental Health - http://www.mh.state.oh.us

Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services - The mission of the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services is to "...promote, assist in developing, and coordinate or conduct programs of education and research for the prevention of alcohol and drug addiction and for the treatment, including intervention, of alcoholics and persons who abuse drugs of abuse." - http://www.state.oh.us/ada/main.html

Ohio Health Dept. - http://www.odh.state.oh.us

Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) - Administers Medicaid, Medicare and Child Health insurance programs - http://www.hcfa.gov. Also features Medlearn, free computer-based learning programs for doctors, nurses and others who need training on Medicare and Medicaid issues. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medlearn/

• This site contains legislative information for the various governmental programs it oversees.

• The site also offers free downloadable interactive computer based courses that include Medicare billing training and ICD-9 coding for billing purposes.

National Institute of Mental Health - http://www.nimh.nih.gov

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - SAMHSA is the Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses - http://www.samhsa.gov

Government Information Locator Service - http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils/index.html

National Institutes of Health (NIH) - http://www.nih.gov

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) - http://www.cdc.gov

Health Resources and Services Administration - http://www.hrsa.gov

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - http://www.fda.gov

Department of Health and Human Services - http://ds1.psc.dhhs.gov/hhsdir/orgDetail.stm

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

National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

HOSPITAL COUNCIL LINKS

American Hospital Association - http://www.aha.org

Ohio Hospital Association - http://www.ohanet.org

GRANTS AND FUNDING

Agency for Health Care Planning and Research Funding - http://www.ahcpr.gov/fund

National Institute of Health Grant Information - http://www.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm

Centers for Disease Control Funding Information - http://www.cdc.gov/funding.htm

Health Resources and Services Administration - http://www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/grants.htm

The Federal Register - http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/index.html

Emergency Medicine Services for Children Funding Page - http://www.ems-c.org/funding/framefunding.htm

The Foundation Center Grantmaking Information - Links, Top U.S. Funders, etc. - http://www.fdncenter.org/grantmaker/index.html

TOBACCO

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Children and Tobacco Page - http://www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco.html

MEDICAL REFERENCE

Medical Encyclopedia - Lycos Health with WebMDhttp://webmd.lycos.com/encyclopedia

Medical Encyclopedia, Drug Search and Condition Search - http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/408/408.html

MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations - http://www.jcaho.org

American Medical Association - http://www.ama-assn.org

PUBLICATIONS

Journal of the American Medical Association - http://jama.ama-assn.org

American Medical Association Clinical Quality Improvement; newsletter, and other resources - http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2936.html

This publication describes various federal programs that support rural health care initiatives - http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/richspub/rural_pg.htm

Publications on the topic of healthy communities on the Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) site - http://www.nwu.edu/IPR/abcd.html

US National Library of Medicine - http://www.nlm.nih.gov

Publication by a local author for critical care nurses - http://www.criticareresources.com

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