High School Health

BCPS Office of Health Education

General Health Resources

  • Centers For Disease Control & Prevention ..."CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States"
  • Dept. of Health & Human Services ..."The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves"
  • Dept. of Health & Human Services ..."Health Care Information Resources makes information about health and disease accessible in the belief that the informed consumer is a more satisfied consumer of health care."
  • Health World Online ..."HealthWorld Online is your 24-hour health resource center--a virtual health village where you can access information, products, and services to help create your wellness-based lifestyle."
  • Healthfinder ..."healthfinder® is a free guide to reliable consumer health and human services information, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
  • National Health Information Center ..."The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers."
  • National Institutes of Health ... "Begun as a one-room Laboratory of Hygiene in 1887, the National Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the U.S."
  • Virtual Hospital ..."The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients."

Online Research Modules

  • Anti-Drug Campaign...Students research to determine the impact of drugs on the individual, family, and the community.
  • Suicide Awareness...Students research information about suicide and analyze the data to answer questions on the topic.