Health Resources
College Student Health Information
The BACCHUS Network™ is a university and community based network focusing on comprehensive health and safety initiatives.
General Health Resources/Databases
A consumer health information web site from the
2. Mayo Clinic
This famous clinic's web site provides accessible health information and allows users to email questions to clinic physicians.
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This web site contains general health information, data, and statistics from the CDC research studies, publications, traveler's health information and more.
4. Intelihealth
Johns Hopkins web site full of general health information.
Discover your risk for the developing the 5 most common diseases and get personalized tips for preventing them.
Nutrition
1. American Dietetic Association
Nutrition information, resources, and access to Registered Dietitians provided by
Tobacco
1. Joe Chemo
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Links
1. Facts on Tap
This site contains ideas about moderate use of alcohol aimed at high school and college students.
2. National Institute on Drug Abuse
The federal government's site for research, publications, news and events alcohol and other drug use. This site contains fact sheets on psychoactive substances - both street drugs and prescription medications.
The Marin Institute is an alcohol industry watchdog and contains many solutions to community alcohol problems.
4. Center on Alcohol Marketing & Youth
CAMY monitors the marketing practices of the alcohol industry, particularly as it relates to the targeting of youth. The site contains great fact sheets, research papers, and a gallery of the marketing images used by the industry.
Substance Abuse Problems
1. Hazelden
A nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people recover from alcoholism and other drug addiction.
A nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people recover from alcoholism and other drug addiction.
Fitness Links
This site contains information about exercise and nutrition as a means of staying (or getting) in shape. The
An interactive guide to fitness shoe selection.
The premier website for all things related to heart health.
Mental Health Links
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A collection of short articles and pamphlets written for college student with practical tips on a wide variety of mental health and wellness topics such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, sexual orientation, etc. Great for basic information on a topic.
2. American Psychological Association
A site for those who are interested in psychology as a career or for those researching a psychological topic. Links to various searches for books and journals.
3. National Institutes of Mental Health
A general site for public mental health issues with information regarding medications, learning disabilities, depression, etc. Access the information by going to the section called "For the Public."
4. American Psychiatric Association
A site with links to informative pamphlets on a wide assortment of psychological and psychiatric issues.
5. Internet Mental Health Resources
A site with links to hundreds of other
resources for everything from AIDS, Alzheimer's, eastern psychology, loss/bereavement to Tourette's Syndrome, women's issues, and violence.
6. American Psychological Association Helping Series
For short articles of tips and help.
Body Image Eating Disorders
1. National Eating Disorders Association
2. www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
Miscellaneous Links
1. New York Times “Your Health Daily”
Interesting source of consumer health information in many different areas.
