Internet Resources
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- Health Education Lesson Guides
Provides a comprehensive, sequential K-12 health education curriculum that consists of almost 300 lesson guides.
- Children's Hospital and Medical Center
A wealth of material, but you have to spend time learning how to navigate this site. For example, if you want to find, Asthma Management Plan (with the red, green and yellow zones) go to Programs and Services, then Other Departments and Programs, then Clinical Paths, then Asthma, then scroll down to Asthma Management Plan. If you want to find the Center for Children with Special Needs, you start at home page, click on Medical Staff, then Other Resources, then Center for Children with Special Needs.
- OSPI Website - Health Services
For Publications/Reports, you will find the following:
- Washington State Department of Health (DOH)
For information from Community and Family Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs, Family Planning and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS and Environmental Health. For information on immunizations, go directly to the Immunization home page: http://www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/immunize/
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people. It has excellent information on everything from anthrax to flu vaccine to the latest statistics and much more.
- Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network
For specific information on dealing with food allergies in schools, go to: http://www.foodallergy.org/school.html
- The Center for Children with Special Needs
Click on a county from the map to view its resource list or scroll down to see a list of all counties in Washington State.
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- Healthy Schools Washington
This website has been developed by a healthy schools team in Washington state to identify resources to help students, parents, school and district officials, and community members work together to make it easier for children to choose health-promoting foods, be physically active, and be ready to learn at school.
- USDA Food and Nutrition Service
Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity.
- Comprehensive Health Education Foundation
For research based prevention curricula.
- Action for Health Kids
Is about creating health-promoting schools that support sound nutrition and physical activity as part of a total learning environment.
- Steps to a Healthier US
This is the home site of The Steps grants that is a 5-year cooperative agreement program that funds States, cities, and tribal entities to implement chronic disease prevention efforts focused on reducing the burden of diabetes, overweight, obesity, and asthma and addressing three related risk factors: physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use. To find information about how the Steps grant is being implemented in North central Washington State see North Central Washington Steps Grant.
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- Medline Plus
Includes health and drug information, an Encyclopedia (especially good for visuals), news by topic and across disciplines, directories of providers and facilities and links to organizations, databases and libraries.
- PubMed
Includes 15 million citations to journal articles on all aspects of health (medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary, allied health, financing, health services research, basic sciences, molecular biology) from1953 to present. Contains abstracts for 80% of articles (1975-present) and links to full text of many articles.
- National Library of Medicine
Includes PubMed, Medline Plus, National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology, TOXNET (toxicology and environmental health), research programs and grants.
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