Nursing: Information Resources for Practitioners: Patient Education

"Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children, youth, and families by connecting child welfare, adoption, and related professionals as well as the public to information, resources, and tools covering topics on child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out-of-home care, adoption, and more."

What more can we say -- it's the CDC!! The best place in the world to get public health information, health statistics, ready-made patient education, educational programming ...

"CDC Vital Signs offers recent data on the important health topics of key diseases, conditions, or risk factors. Data is gathered from CDC's national monitoring systems to show progress in important areas of public health, and the ways people can increase their health, prevent or control disease. " VitalSigns is a growing collection, at present including information about smoking, adult obesity, colorectal cancer and breast cancer.

Find consumer-friendly information about the effects of genetic variation on human health.

"A government web site where you will find information and tools to help you and those you care about stay healthy." Available is information on over 1600 health-related topics, personal health tools, a quick guide to healthy living and directories to services and information.

The pre-eminent website for consumer health information. Consumers and health professionals can easily access credible information on diseases and conditions, drugs, clinical trials, etc.

Browse the A-Z list for health topics related to aging and older adults.

Another of the governmental "gateway" websites used to access a wide range of health information including consumer health and professionally-oriented resources for data, programs and initiatives.

Link through to information specific to substance abuse and mental health, including prevention, trauma & justice, military families, health reform, health IT, public awareness & support, data, outcomes & quality and recovery.

A website produced by the Office on Women's Health (US DHHS), featuring links to health topics, health organizations, publications and fact sheets, campaigns & activities, statistics and health tools. A "Health Professionals" section is provided that links to sites on cultural competence, medication safety, clinical trials, Healthy People 2010, etc.

Health Information Translations provides education resources in multiple languages for health care professionals and others to use in their communities. Resources are easy to read and culturally appropriate.

Browse health information in multiple languages, arranged by language.

Browse health information in multiple languages, arranged by health topic.

"Explore health information written for patients from the editors of JAMA, including easy-to-understand explanations of asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and more." Note: You can create a free account to download the topic pages.