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High School Health
BCPS Office of Health Education
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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.
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