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Consumer Health Information

ABC Health & Wellbeing
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online gateway to health.

American Academy of Family Physicians

Better Health Channel (Victorian Government)

Beyond Blue, the National Depression Initiative

Centre for Health Communication and Participation (La Trobe University)
The Centre for Health Communication and Participation was established within the Australian Institute for Primary Care at La Trobe University in April 2009, springing from the work of the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group. The Centre's mission is to improve communication with and participation by consumers and carers, through evidence-informed policy and decision making.

Canadian Health Network

Child Health Library (PMH)

Consumer and Carer Involvement in Comorbidity Treatment Planning Package

Consumer and Patient Health Information Section of the US Medical Library Association CAPHIS Top 100 List of Web Sites You Can Trust

Consumer, Carer and Community Participation and Information (Victorian Dept of Human Services)
Includes information on how to write consumer health information resources.

Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs)

DIPEx Database of Individual Patient Experiences - this website has been replaced by HealthTalkOnline and YouthHealthTalk

Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse
A central access point for Australian multicultural health services, resources, research, training, and events. Funded by the NSW Government.

Healia
A high quality and personalized consumer health search engine that can be used to find reliable health information on the Web. Healia is engineered with consumers and patients in mind but health professionals and researchers may also find it to be a useful gateway to online health information. The health search engine was developed under a multiyear competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Cancer Institute, the premier cancer research agency of the United States.

Health Consumers' Council of Western Australia Inc
The Health Consumers' Council is an independent community based organisation, representing the consumers' 'voice' in health policy, planning, research and service delivery. The Council advocates on behalf of consumers to government, doctors, other health professionals, hospitals and the wider health system.

HealthInSite
An Australian Government initiative, funded by the Department of Health and Ageing. It aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health.

HealthTalkOnline
The information on healthtalkonline is based on qualitative research into patient experiences, led by experts at the University of Oxford. These personal stories of health and illness will enable patients, families and healthcare professionals to benefit.

Healthy Skepticism
Improving health by reducing harm from misleading drug promotion.

KidsHealth
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.

Lab Tests Online Australasia
The site is the product of a collaboration of professional societies representing the lab community and is designed to help the patient to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases.

MedlinePlus (US)
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.

Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA)
Provides national leadership in building greater awareness of mental health and suicide prevention amongst Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC) [Australia]

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
The Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and one 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 (NORD) [US]
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 Choices

*NHS Direct

*NHS The National Centre for Involvement

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Clinical practice guidelines to provide consumers and carers with evidence-based information about particular mental illnesses and appropriate treatment options.

Royal College of Psychiatrists
A series of leaflets for the general public on common mental health issues.

Travellers' Health, including the Yellow Book [US Centers for Disease Control]

Women and Newborn Health Library (KEMH)

YouthHealthTalk
This is a website about young people’s real life experiences of health and lifestyle. This is not just a website about the medical facts, this is about real people and real lives.

 

Page last updated / reviewed: 2 November 2009
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