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- Al sitio en Español del Centro de Investigación del Cáncer Fred Hutchinson / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Spanish-Language Cancer Information
Este sitio en el internet tiene propósitos educativos y fue creado para proporcionar información a los hispanoparlantes sobre el cáncer, tratamiento de la enfermedad, temas de prevención e información sobre salud.
- American Cancer Society Statistics
Provides access to statistics on cancer occurrence, including the number of deaths, cases, and how long people survive after diagnosis.
- Cancer Mortality Maps and Graphs
The National Cancer Institute’s interactive site allows visitors to create maps, graphs, text, tables, and figures showing geographic patterns and time trends of cancer death rates spanning 1950-1994 for more than 40 cancers.
- Cancer Trends Progress Report 2007 Update
The report summarizes progress against cancer in relation to Healthy People 2010 targets. The report includes key measures of progress along the cancer control continuum and uses national trend data to illustrate where advancements have been made.
- HINTS: Health Information National Health Trends
HINTS monitors how Americans find and use cancer information.
- National Cancer Institute Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
Advancing understanding of the causes of health disparities and developing and integrating effective interventions to reduce or eliminate these disparities.
- SEER: Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results
SEER provides information on cancer statistics to help reduce the burden of this disease on the US population.
- Washington State Cancer Registry
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Child Care Health Program
Offers services to King County child care facilities including health policies, immunizations, communicable disease control, nutrition, child development and child behavioral issues.
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Kids Get Care Program (KGC)
KGC ensures that children, regardless of insurance status, receive early integrated preventive physical, oral, mental and developmental health services through attachment to a health care home.
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Other Child and Youth Health programs at Public Health
A list of Public Health - Seattle & King County's ABCD Child Dentistry Program, Children and Family Commission, Children with Special Health Care Needs, Youth Health Services, and more.
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- CDC National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
- Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Explores ways to strengthen the well-being of children and youth through effective health programs and health care services in schools.
- ChildStats: America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2005
Access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
- Child Welfare Information Gateway
Connecting professionals and concerned citizens to practical, timely, and essential information on programs, research, legislation, and statistics to promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families.
- CORE Child Health and Development
Promote and improve the health and well-being of children and women in developing countries through collaborative NGO action and learning.
- Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health
Allows users to search and compare data from the National Survey of Children’s Health (2003) and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (2001).
- Kids Count
A national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Allows users to create custom data reports, city profiles, and download related publications.
- Maternal and Child Health Data
US Department of Health and Human Services link to maternal and child health data, resources, and publications.
- Maternal and Child Health Library
The Maternal and Child Health Library, part of the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH), at Georgetown University, is a pathway to websites, databases, bibliographies, and related resources.
- Media Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active!
Media Smart Youth is an interactive website designed to help teach young people, age 11 to 13, “about the complex media world around them, and how it can affect their health--especially in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.”
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Healthy Youth
In addition to providing information on school health and youth oriented health topics, CDC’s interactive website allows visitors to compare data from the 1991-2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Data is available by location, across seven health topics, and allows comparison between two locations.
- Safe Schools Coalition
A public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth seeking to reduce bias-based bullying and violence in schools and to help schools better meet the needs of sexual minority youth and children with sexual minority parents/guardians locally, nationally and internationally.
- The State of Washington’s Children
Featuring statistics concerning the economic well-being, education, health, family and community, and safety and security of children in Washington State.
- VERB Youth Media Campaign
This national, multicultural, social marketing campaign, coordinated by the CDC, encourages young people ages 9-13 years to be physically active every day.
- Washington State Healthy Youth Survey and Report (2002 and 2004)
Identifies trends in patterns of behavior over time with regard to safety and violence, physical activity and diet, alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, and related risk and protective factors.
- WIC Works Resource Center
A source of nutrition service tools for health and nutrition professionals.
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- CDC Chronic Disease Prevention
CDC’s Chronic Disease portal links to program specific information on arthritis, cancer control, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and related diagnoses and campaigns. For state specific chronic disease data see the Washington State profile.
- CDC: Preventing Chronic Disease
Covers a wide range of prevention topics, including screening, surveillance, and population-based intervention for arthritis, asthma, cancer, depression, diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease.
- FDA Diabetes Information
Consumer health portal to information on diabetes, related medical devices, medications, and insulin products.
- FDA Information for Seniors
Articles, brochures and other publications with information for older people on a wide range of health issues, including arthritis, cancer, health fraud, and nutrition.
- Health Data Tools and Statistics Trends in Health and Aging
Customizable tables on trends in the health of older Americans showing data by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin.
- The Health of Washington State: Chronic Disease
Washington State specific data chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, asthma, cancer, diabetes, and arthritis.
- MedlinePlus: Seniors’ Health
- MedlinePlus: Coping with Chronic Illness
The National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health preeminent consumer health website provides an excellent series of links on senior health topics and coping with chronic illness. Also see the Health Topics list for specific diagnoses.
- National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
The NACDD “provides state-based leadership and expertise for chronic disease prevention and control at the state and national level”. Resources include a wide range of chronic disease links, project profiles, and reports.
- National Council on Aging: Chronic Disease
Chronic disease checklists, toolkits, fact sheets, brochures, manuals, guides, related links from the National Council on Aging.
- National Health, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Provides mortality maps by state for CVD (cardiovascular disease) including Coronary Heart Disease, Acute Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, Congestive Heart Failure) by gender, race (white or black), or combined, along with data from the top health service areas. Also provides state asthma mortality maps by gender, race (white or black), or combined, along with data from the top 100 health service areas.
- National Institute on Aging
The NIA provides leadership in aging research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs relevant to aging and older people.
- National Resources Center for Safe Aging
Online resources and best practices on senior safety, including fall prevention, pedestrian and motor vehicle safety, and prevention of elder abuse.
- WHO Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion (CHP)
Gateway to chronic disease programs at WHO, their topic list links to related websites on Asthma, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases.
- TranStat: Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study
The TranStat tool was locally developed to enable field personnel and researchers to enter and revise data from outbreaks.
- ZebraHunter.org
ZebraHunter.org is “the physician's on-line, evidence-based, medical literature search tool. Zebra Hunter retrieves expert documentation of complex and rare clinical case presentations from published case studies in medical journals.”
- Healia Search Engine
This search engine is designed to find authoritative, high quality online health information. Search results can be filtered according to gender, age, heritage (African, Asian, Hispanic, Native), and reading level.
- HealthWise
A consumer health information database sponsored by Group Health Cooperative.
- MayoClinic.com
Information on diseases and conditions, drugs and supplements, treatment decisions, healthy living, and health tools. Features include their Symptom Checker and First Aid Guide.
- MedlinePlus: Consumer Health Information
The National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health preeminent consumer health website includes over 700 topics on conditions, diseases and wellness, a drugs and supplements database, medical encyclopedia, and other useful resources.
- Puget Sound Health Alliance: Health in Plain Terms
Resources to help consumers get the health information they need and to help doctors and other providers talk about health in terms that make sense to their patients.
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Culturally competent care for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people
A health care provider's job is to care for the health of her or his patients. This necessarily requires that the provider understand important details about the patient's behaviors, and that the patient invests in the provider with a high degree of trust.
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Ethnicity and Health reports
Authored by Public Health - Seattle & King County, these reports cover a range of cross-cultural topics including racial and ethnic discrimination in healthcare, the health status of some ethnic groups, domestic violence in ethnic and hard to reach populations, and more. |
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- American Indian Health
National Library of Medicine’s portal for information on the health of Native Peoples of the United States.
- Asian American Health
National Library of Medicine’s portal for information on the health of Asian Americans in the United States.
- Asian Pacific Islander Cancer Education Materials Tool (American Cancer Society)
American Cancer Society cancer education resources in over a dozen Asian and Pacific Islander languages.
- Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources
The National Library of Medicine’s list of websites offering health information in multiple languages.
- Cultural Competence Resources for Health Care Providers
The Health Resources and Services gateway to cultural competence resources, including assessment tools, training opportunities, culture and disease specific information.
- CultureMed
Health materials in languages other than English
- Culture Clues
Tip sheets for clinicians, designed to increase awareness about concepts and preferences of patients from the diverse cultures served by University of Washington Medical Center.
- The Cross Cultural Health Program
Cross Cultural Health Program’s website provides cultural competency and medical interpreter training materials, links to national programs, and a resource library.
- EthnoMed
Information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US. Patient education resources are available in several languages.
- Health Information Translations
Offers a large collection of patient education materials on several topics and in many languages.
- Healthy Roads Media
Healthy Roads Media provides a range of health topics translated into several languages in a number of formats.
- Immunization Action Coalition
Immunization information in over thirty languages.
- Joint Commission: Hospital, Language and Culture Resources
The Joint Commission's very comprehensive list of groups addressing culturally and linguistically appropriate healthcare services.
- Non-English Language Information on Seattle.Gov
Service and community information in over 26 languages on topics such as civil rights, emergency preparedness, housing, utilities, and human services.
- Practicing Cross Cultural Communication
An online training module from the New York New Jersey Public Health Training Center. Explore their other training opportunities at www.nynj-phtc.org/default.cfm
- Quick Guide to Health Literacy
Factsheets, strategies, and related resources on health literacy for government employees, grantees and contractors, and community partners working in healthcare and public health fields.
- Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN)
RHIN has created a database of quality multilingual, public health resources for those providing care to resettled refugees. See their Documents link for a searchable database of translated health education materials.
- Rehabilitation Provider's Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born
Specific information on cultural perspectives of foreign-born persons in the U.S., especially recent immigrants. Public health providers may find this information helpful in addressing the needs of foreign-born recipients of health services.
- Salud in Acción
Seeks to address the community public health issues and needs of the Hispanic/Latino community.
- Seattle Public Library Languages Resources
The Seattle Public Library provides access to a wide range of online multilingual resources.
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