Info Rx for Australian Health Professionals

Consumer Health Information

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ABC Health and Wellbeing ABC Australia

* Better Health Channel [Victorian Department of Human Services]

* Beyond Blue: The National Depression Iniative [Australian]

* 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.

Consumers Health Forum of Australia

Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs)

Deciphering Medspeak
To make informed health decisions, you have probably read a newspaper or magazine article, tuned into a radio or television program, or searched the Internet to find answers to health questions. If so, you have probably encountered "medspeak," the specialized language of health professionals. The Medical Library Association developed "Deciphering Medspeak" to help translate common "medspeak" terms.

* DIPEx Database of Individual Patient Experiences - this website has been replaced by HealthTalkOnline and YouthHealthTalk

* Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse is a central access point for Australian multicultural health services, resources, research and projects , training, and events.

Healia
The Healia health search engine was developed over a span of more than four years under a multiyear competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, the focal point for health research in the United States.

HealthInsite [Australian]
HealthInsite is a Commonwealth Government of Australia initiative. It aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health. HealthInsite will provide Australians with a single entry point and provide "safe surfing" to quality information from leading health information providers, including peak health organisations, government agencies and educational and research institutions. Content is provided through Information Partnerships established between HealthInsite and selected organisations providing quality information and links to their sites. All material proposed by partners for access through HealthInsite is first considered by a highly-qualified editorial board.

* 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.

InsideRadiology - Radiology Information for all Australians
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR)

 

KidsHealth
KidsHealth is 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 they can use.

Lab Tests Online
The site is the product of a collaboration of professional societies representing the lab community.

MedlinePlus [US]
MEDLINEplus provides a gold mine of up-to-date, quality health care information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. MEDLINEplus is for anyone with a medical question. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate, current, medical information. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MEDLINEplus endorse any company or product.

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

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine [US National Institutes for Health]
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is the Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We are 1 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 [US]
The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) is 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

* Public Health Agency of Canada

QuackWatch

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Consumer / Carer Versions of Guidelines

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

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

* 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.

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