Prescription for Success: Consumer Health on the Internet Resources Health Literacy

Prescription for Success: Consumer Health on the Internet

Resources

1. 
   Health Literacy
   

1. 
   NAAL survey: http://nces.ed.gov/naal/
   
2. 
   Health literacy videos:
   

American College of Physicians Foundation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImnlptxIMXs

American Medical Association Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubPkdpGHWAQ

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Patient and Clinician Videos: http://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/patient-involvement/ask-your-doctor/videos/index.html

And: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PudB0uYnFU

3. 
   Toolkits and Resources:
   National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Health Literacy: https://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/hlthlit.html
   
4. 
   Evaluating health information on the Internet:
   

MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthywebsurfing.html

Evaluating Internet Health Information Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html

5. 
   MedlinePlus:
   

Tour: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/tour.html

Search cloud: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/cloud.html

Easy-to-read materials: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/easytoread/easytoread_a.html

6. 
   Clinical trials: Clinical Trials: www.clinicaltrials.gov
   
7. 
   NIHSeniorHealth: www.nihseniorhealth.gov
   
8. 
   Genetics Home Reference: http://www.ghr.nlm.nih.gov
   
9. 
   ToxTown: ttp://www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov
   
10. 
    Household Products Database: http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/
    

2. 
   Other Good Health Websites:
   

1. 
   American Academy of Family Practitioners: Familydoctor.org
   
2. 
   Healthfinder.gov
   
3. 
   Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: About Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products: http://www.mskcc.org/aboutherbs
   
4. 
   Drugs.com
   
5. 
   U.S. Food and Drug Administration: FDA.gov
   

Drug page: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/default.htm

6. 
   Cancer sites:
   

National Cancer Institute: http://www.cancer.gov

American Cancer Society: http://www.cancer.org

7. 
   Health Associations and organizations:
   

MedlinePlus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/organizations/all_organizations.html

Women’s health: https://www.womenshealth.gov/

8. 
   Lab Tests Online: http://www.labtestsonline.org