Useful Web Links in Health, Exercise Science & PE Not all of these sites are acceptable for PE SLS assignments, as some .com sites are listed, and these are not allowed in the assignments. Please report problems with this page

Health Links: Part A: The most reliable, Goverment agencies, non-profit professional sites or major foundations Broad based topics Nutrition (& physical fitness) Rehabilitation, occupational & drug Complementary & alternative Condition & illness related organizations Fall Prevention Part B: Very reliable,  Non-profit professional sites Part C: General health information updates Part D: Indexes to health information Part E: Health Statistics		News sites and newsletter subscriptions: Health Physical therapy PE  teaching Exercise science Medical Dictionary Gray's Anatomy Merrian-Webster Online (Dictionary & Thesaurus) Unit Conversions Kinesiology Forum Excellent resource for Ex Sci/Kines/PE/ Departments, Prof Organizations, Gov Agencies, Institutes, News Groups, Discussion Lists Medical Reference for Non-Medical Librarians
Search the internet Exercise science links	PE teaching links Kids physical fitness	Misc. Links: |Health promotion | Image search engines & databases |  PowerPoint Help |

Shop around for books online. CheapestBookPrice.com, AllBookstores.com, Biblio.com, AbeBooks.com, A1Books.com, BookFinder.com, ValoreBooks.com and Textbook411.com are all good sites for this purpose. Amazon is also doing big business selling college text books, and there are some British book websites that offer science textbooks for about 40 percent off the domestic price (even when you factor in the cost of international shipping.) Don't buy your books before class starts. Go the first day and ask your professor if you can buy a prior edition and try to find it used. (Source:  http://clarkhoward.com/shownotes/2007/08/27/index.html#12584)

Search the Internet 

Excellent for specific searches, especially if you can narrow the search using multiple keywords. Excellent for general introductory searches. For advanced search page interface set: Return=500 results, Language=English to maximize results.  Results will be clustered by subtopics. Search strategy guide for the internet The Invisible web Pandia Metasearch & guide to retrieval tools Fast Infomine: Scholarly internet resource collections Librarians' Index to the Internet

Health News

• InteliHealth - General Health information. Headlines: see "Todays News" in column on right Subscribe to a newsletter: look  for "Free Health e-mail" link in column on right
• InteliHealth - Fitness and Sport Medicine Information. Headlines: see "News" Subscribe to a newsletter: look  for "Free Fitness e-mail" link near top right
• Mayo Clinic News Headlines: see "Today's News" Subscribe to a newsletter: click on the "Newsletter Sign-up" link on the list at the  bottom of to list on the left
• Dr. Koop Headlines: see "news" column Subscribe to a newsletter: look  for "newsletter subscribe" link on blue banner near top of page
• American Medical News - From the American Medical Association Headlines: see Top stories list Subscribe to a newsletter: see "e-mail alerts" on professional, social, economic & policy issues in health
• Health Scout Headlines: see "Today's News" Subscribe to a newsletter: look  for "Personalize" list near top of left column, and "Newsletters" choice under that.
• Harvard School of Public Health - World Health News Headlines: see front page stories. Subscribe to a newsletter: look  for "SUBSCRIBE" link near top of page.
• CDC Nutrition & Physical Activity Headlines Headlines: See all of page. Subscribe to a newsletter: None.

If you know of other sites that do a similar job to these ones please send me the address of those sites so that I can evaluate them for inclusion in the table, so other students can benefit. Thanks

(Gordon.Chalmers@wwu.edu)

PE Teaching News

• PE LINKS 4U News and Ideas: On page that opens. Subscribe to a newsletter: look in box in bottom left of page for newsletter subscription
• PE Central News and Ideas: click on button for topic of interest. Subscribe to a newsletter: Click on the link labeled "PEC newsletter" or click here.
• CDC Nutrition & Physical Activity Headlines Headlines: See all of page. Subscribe to a newsletter: None.

Physical Therapy News

• Advanced Physical Therapy Education Institute  News: None. Subscribe to a newsletter: See the "COMPLIMENTARY APTEI Library membership & in order to receive monthly e-Newsletters." box.  Note:  The newsletter comes out only 1 time per month, so do not expect a rapid response.
• APTA's PT Bulletin Online News: See list of headlines

Exercise Science News

• National Strength and Conditioning Association News: See center column of page. Subscribe to a newsletter: See "Sign up now to receive NSCA's news by email." on lower left side of home page.
• American Fitness Professionals & Associates News: None. Subscribe to a newsletter: Use form provided

HEALTH LINKS - Part A: The most reliable, Government agencies, non-profit professional sites or major foundations.

BROAD BASED HEALTH INFORMATION

• MEDLINE SEARCHES Biomedical journal citations, 1966 to present. Hint:  For general introductory searches, try the Vivisimo Clustering Search engine advanced search page interface for PubMed.  Set: Sources=PubMed@NIH (deselect the "web" sources"), Return=500 results, Language=English.  Results will be clustered by title, Abstract words, & Mesh Heading (or other Medline field categories you select).
• Medline Plus National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer health information.
• healthierus.gov, from the Office of the President and the Department of Health and Human Services
• The NLM Gateway  Search multiple retrieval systems at the National Library of Medicine (MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSRProj, and MEDLINEplus)
• Combined Health Information Database (CHID), from the health agencies of the U.S. Goverment
• Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
• Department of Health and Human Services
• NIH - National Institutes of Health
• The National Health Information Center (NHIC), a health information referral service from the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• nutrition.gov
• Canadian Health Network
• HEALTHFINDER
• Healthy People 2010
• The National Acadamies- Institute of Medicine
• World Health Organization
• World Health Organization - Library & Information Networks for Knowledge
• Food and Drug Administration
• MedWebPlus.  This commercial index appears to provide selective links to reputable health information sources (their objective).  Use with caution and be sure for yourself that the sources are, in fact, reputable.
• KaiserEDU gives health policy students and faculty easy access to data, literature, news and developments regarding major health policy topics and debates.
• Healthy Canadians
• Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, Your Disease Risk
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

NUTRITION (& Physical Activity) HEALTH INFORMATION 

• National Cancer Insitutue - Eat 5 A Day program
• Food and Nutrition Information Center - National Agricultural Library
• USDA Interactive Healthy Eating Index
• USDA Nutrient Database
• FoodSafety.gov
• MyPyramid.com (USDA)
• Nutrition.gov
• Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity
• President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
• Tufts Nutrition Navigator
• IFIC Foundation
• The Nutrition Source. Harvard School of Public Health
• Nutrition database

REHABILITATION, OCCUPATIONAL & DRUG HEALTH INFORMATION

• Disability and rehabilitation research databases. REHABDATA, produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center. CIRRIE, for published materials conducted outside of the United States
• OSHA - Occupational Safety & Health Administration
• Physician Desk Reference Drug Information

COMPLEMENTARY & ALTERNATIVE HEALTH INFORMATION

• NIH - National Center for COMPLEMENTARY and ALTERNATIVE  Medicine
• NIH - Database of Complementary and Alternative  Medicine research articles.  (Subset of MEDLINE database)
• Complementary and Alternative  Medicine information within the Combined Health Information Database (CHID), from the health agencies of the U.S. Goverment (select the "Complementary and Alternative  Medicine" database to search)

CONDITION & ILLNESS RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

• American Heart Association
• American Cancer Society
• National Cancer Institute
• American Institute for Cancer Research
• American Diabetes Association
• Arthritis Foundation
• Arthritis National Research Foundation

Fall Prevention

• PROFANE (Prevention of Falls Network Europe)
• stopfalls.org
  • Video demonstrations of assessments of balance is available at the top of the web page (FAB Scale, Berg Balance Scale, Multidirectional Reach Test).  FAB (Falls Behaviour) scale instruction manual.

Evidence on the impact of physical activity and its relationship to health

• At least five a week, UK Department of Health

Health Links-Part B: Very reliable, Non-profit professional sites. 

• Tufts University Nutrition Navigator - Access to sound nutrition information on the web
• H.E.R.E. in Washington - the Health Education Resource Exchange for WA state
• American Dietetic Assoc. - Weight Control / Nutrition
• Medem - Healthcare information partnered with the nation's leading medical societies
• IFIC - International Food Information Council

Health Links-Part C: General health information updates. 

• Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
• Berkely Wellness Letter
• IntelliHealth - John Hopkins Health Information

Quackwatch-Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions

Health Links-Part D: Indexes to health information. 

• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
• The Virtual Hospital patient information
• Medical Matrix
• Health on the Net Foundation An international initiative, Health On the Net Foundation (HON) is a not-for-profit organisation. Among HON's features are several widely-used medical search engines, including MedHunt, and the HON Code of Conduct for the provision of authoritative and reliable medical information.
• The main OMNI gateway service OMNI is a gateway to Internet resources in medicine, biomedicine, allied health, health management and related topics, providing comprehensive coverage of the UK resources in this area, and access to the best resources worldwide.

Health Links-Part E: Health Statistics. 

Exercise Science 

Kids Physical Fitness 

• Take10 - for teachers of K-grade 5
• KIDNETIC - Communicates healthy eating and active living information in meaningful and relevant ways to kids aged 9-12 and their families
• BAM - Created by the CDC to answer kids' questions on health issues and recommend ways to make their bodies and minds healthier, stronger, and safer. BAM! also serves as an aid to teachers, providing them with interactive activities to support their health and science curriculums that are educational and fun.
• Physical activity programs for kids

Physical Education Teaching 

ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education	Library-in-the-Sky	Schoolhouse
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators	PE Central. The ultimate Web site for physical education teachers.	Washington Education Association
	Sport Media  (to be replaced by SportaPolis in the future)	International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education
BAM - Created by the CDC to answer kids' questions on health issues and recommend ways to make their bodies and minds healthier, stronger, and safer. BAM! also serves as an aid to teachers, providing them with interactive activities to support their health and science curriculums that are educational and fun.	Take10 - for teachers of K-grade 5	President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
PE links 4 U

Health Promotion 

• Nutrition Conversation program, to provide health professionals with ideas for communicating effectively with consumers.
  Comprehensive Strategies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention - Gateway to Related Internet Sites, with emphasis on workplace health promotion
• Wellness Councils of America  - Worksite Health Promotion
• ILSI Center for Health Promotion