Collection of links to information for health consumers

   

• Better Health Channel [Victorian Department of Human Services]
• Better Health Channel Support groups
  An alphabetical list of all the support groups on the Better Health Channel.
• Beyond Blue: The National Depression Initiative [Australian]
• Canadian Health Network
• Consumers' Health Forum of Australia
• Deciphering Medspeak
  To make informed health decisions, you have probably read a newspaper or magazine article, tuned into a radio or television program, or searched the Internet to find answers to health questions. If so, you have probably encountered "medspeak," the specialized language of health professionals. The Medical Library Association developed "Deciphering Medspeak" to help translate common "medspeak" terms.
• Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse
  The Clearinghouse is a central access point for Australian multicultural health services, resources, research and projects , training, and events.
• Healia
  The Healia health search engine was developed over a span of more than four years under a multiyear competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, the focal point for health research in the United States.
• Health Matters
  Health Matters is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online gateway to health.
• HealthInsite [Australian]
  HealthInsite is a Commonwealth Government of Australia initiative. It aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health. HealthInsite will provide Australians with a single entry point and provide "safe surfing" to quality information from leading health information providers, including peak health organisations, government agencies and educational and research institutions. Content is provided through Information Partnerships established between HealthInsite and selected organisations providing quality information and links to their sites. All material proposed by partners for access through HealthInsite is first considered by a highly-qualified editorial board.
• KidsHealth
  KidsHealth is the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, the award-winning KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use.
• Lab Tests Online
  The site is the product of a collaboration of professional societies representing the lab community.
• MEDLINEplus [US]
  MEDLINEplus provides a gold mine of up-to-date, quality health care information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. MEDLINEplus is for anyone with a medical question. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate, current, medical information. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MEDLINEplus endorse any company or product.
• National Breast Cancer Centre [Australia]
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine [US National Institutes for Health]
  The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is the Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We are 1 of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• National Organization for Rare Disorders [US]
  The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) is a unique federation of voluntary health organizations dedicated to helping people with rare "orphan" diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them. NORD is committed to the identification, treatment, and cure of rare disorders through programs of education, advocacy, research, and service.
• NHS Direct [UK National Health Service]
  NHS Direct Online provides a gateway to good information and only links to high quality Internet information sources.
• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Consumer / Carer Versions of Guidelines
• Travellers' Health, including the Yellow Book [Centers for Disease Control in the US]