Health Class Resources
 

• Evaluate Your Sources
   

• Recommended General Sources
   

• Sources for Disease Project
   

• Sources for Drug & Alcohol Awareness
   

• Your Assignment
  
   

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Evaluate Your SourceS

Help in Finding Answers to Healthcare Questions
http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/rbpopmed.html

• Excellent list of "buzzwords" and precautions about using
  health information found online.

How to Evaluate Health Information on the Internet
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Information/internet

• 12 questions consumers should ask when evaluating
  medical and health information

HON Honor Code of Conduct for Medical and Health Web Sites
http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html

• The Health on the Net (HON) Foundation's s ethical standards for online health and medical information.  Search here for sites that abide by these principles. 
   
• You can also Use HON's Site Checker at: http://www/hon.ch/HONcode/HONcode_check.html

Health Insight:  Ten Questions to Ask
http://www.health-insight.com/ns/consumer1-5.html

• This site is part of a Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Risk Analysis project helps consumers evaluate health and scientific information .

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Recommended General Sources

CT Digital Library
Hopkins Library homepage - Databases

Health and Wellness Resources Center

A full-text database that includes a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, alternative medical encyclopedia, health organization directory, health news and links to other health information sites.  Follows the HON Code of Conduct.

Science Reference Center - EBSCOhost Web
A full-text database that includes science magazines and journals,

InfoTrac One File

Provides access to hundreds of full-text magazines and journals including Time, Newsweek, U.S. News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, Discover, Science News at others.

ICONN Newspapers

Provides access the full text of the New York Times(1980+), Christian Science Monitor (1985+), Hartford Courant (1992+), LA Times (1988+),  Wall Street Journal(1984+), and the Washington Post (1987+).

Consumer Health Resources on the Internet
http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/inters.html

Extensive directory of search tools, directories, e-journals and web sites compiled by Connecticut Consumer Health Information Network sponsored by the University of Connecticut Healthcare Library.  

Medline Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

Authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM),  the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.

Hardin M.D.  
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html

A directory of very useful sites and pictures arranged by subject cluster.  This “directory of directories” is sponsored by the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences,  University of Iowa. Follows the HON Code of Conduct to select site content.

Librarians Index to the Internet – Health and Medical Categories
http://lii.org/

Directory  of links to medical and health resources selected and rated by a committee of public, academic, and medical librarians. 

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Sources for DiseaseS Project

• Amedeo : Medical Literature Guide
  http://www.amedeo.com
   
• American Heart Association
  http://www.americanheart.org
   
• American Lung Association
  http://www.lungusa.org
   
• American Social Health Association
  http://www.ashastd.org/
   
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
  http://www.cdc.gov
   
• CDC National Prevention Information Network
  http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/std/index.asp
   
• Family Health International
  http://www.fhi.org/en/Topics/STI.htm
   
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/stds/
   
• Teen Health
  http://www.teenhealth.org
   
• World Health Organization
  http://www.who.org

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Sources for Drug & Alcohol Awareness

• FreeVibe.com
  http://www.freevibe.com/
   
• Go Ask Alice : Columbia University Health Education Program
  http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu
   
• Healthfinder : United States Department of Health and Human Services
  http://www.healthfinder.gov/
   
• NIDA : National Institute on Drug Abuse
  http://www.nida.nih.gov/
   
• Partnership for a Drug-Free America
  http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/
   
• Prevline : Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  http://www.health.org
   
• TeensHealth : Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media
  http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/
   
• Streetdrugs
  http://www.streetdrugs.org/

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NooDLe Tools Citation Maker

We subscribe to Noodle Tools, an online citation generator that will help you create citations in correct MLA format for your Works Cited page.  It is especially good for correctly citing online databases and WWW sites.  Find Noodle Tools under "Databases" at http://hopkinslibrary.net.

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This page last updated on 04/14/2008.
Questions or comments to: fprendergast@hopkins.edu