2008 National Health Observances Calendar
5-2-1-Amost None Campaign — Nemours Health & Prevention Services
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Action on Smoking and Health — resources for anti-smoking activists
Alan Guttmacher Institute — information on sexual and reproductive health
Adult Data on Behavioral Risks — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Cancer Society
American Diabetes Association
American Dietetic Association
American Heart Association
American Institute of Stress
American Journal of Health Behavior
American Legacy Foundation — Fighting for a Tobacco Free Future
American Lung Association
American Public Health Association (APHA)
APHA Health Education Section
Arthritis Foundation
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Bayhealth Medical Center, Milford and Dover
Beebe Medical Center, Lewes
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) — searchable database of behavioral risk factors.
Behavioral Risk Factor Survey data from Delaware
Be Healthy Delaware — website of the Healthy Delaware Foundation and the Center for Health Promotion
Cancer Control Planet — links to cancer control resources.
Cancer Information from Delaware — Division of Public Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Choose Respect — youth campaign against sexual violence
Christiana Care Health System
Coalition of National Health Education Organizations — source of a Code of Ethics for the health education profession (see two versions below).
Code of Ethics for Health Education: Long Version — downloadable as a portable document file (.pdf)
Code of Ethics for Health Education: Summary Version — downloadable as a portable document file (.pdf)
Community Guide, The — evidence-based recommendations for behavior change programs (from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Community Tool Box — a tool kit for community health promotion planning
Cooper Institute — for research on physical activity
Creative Walking — Cross-country walker Rob Sweetgall promotes physical activity
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Delaware Academy of Medicine — consumer and professional library services
Delaware Bicycle Council
Delaware Cancer Consortium
Delaware Cancer Information — from the Division of Public Health
Delaware Data — The University of Delaware's site for youth data on alcohol, tobacco and other drug use
Delaware Dietetic Association
Delaware Division of Public Health
Delaware HIV Consortium
Delaware State University College of Health and Public Policy
Delaware Tobacco Prevention and Control Program
Delaware Valley Hepatitis Treatment, Research, and Education Center (HepTREC)
Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005
Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE)
Don Ardell's Wellness Center
drkoop.com — the former U.S. Surgeon General provides a general health website
E: The Environmental Magazine — the leading independent environmental magazine, often includes health information
Environmental Protection Agency
FDA Consumer magazine
FirstGov: the U.S. Government Web Portal
Food and Nutrition Information Center
Fruits & Veggies—More MattersTM (formerly the 5-a-Day Campaign) — campaign cosponsor, Produce for Better Health Foundation, promotes health benefits of fruits and vegetables
Fruits & Veggies—More MattersTM (formerly 5-a-Day) — the fruits and vegetables site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a campaign cosponsor
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"Get Up and Do Something" Campaign – how to become more active in the First State
Global Health Promotion — from the World Health Organization
Guidelines for Comprehensive Programs to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity — from the Nutrition and Physical Activity Work Group (NUPAWG)
Healing Foods Pyramid — from the University of Michigan Health System's Integrative Medicine
Health Education Directories (HEDIR) — the major health education list serve
Healthy Delaware 2010 — the state health plan
Healthy People 2010 — the national health plan
International Stress Management Association — includes articles from their Stress News newsletter
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JAMA Online — the journal of the American Medical Association
Kick Butts Generation — a Delaware youth group against tobacco
Kids Count of Delaware — data on child health in Delaware
KidsHealth.org — from the Nemours Foundation in Delaware, a leading website of health information about and for kids
Laughter Remedy — laughter to help cope with stress
Lifescan Health Risk Appraisal
Live Well Lifestyle Appraisal — a quick, interactive appraisal of health-related lifestyle habits
Lt. Governor's Challenge — a physical activity challenge program from the office of Delaware Lt. Governor John C. Carney, Jr.
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March of Dimes
Medline Plus — Information from the National Library of Medicine, including the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP)
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) — free online journal of current data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Nanticoke Health Services, Seaford
National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine
National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health of Georgetown University
National Center for Health Education
National Center for Health Statistics – Fast Stats
National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity
National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. — information about national certification for professional health educators, Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine
National Society of Physical Activity Practitioners in Public Health
Nemours Health and Prevention Services
New England Journal of Medicine
Nutrition.gov — A multi-agency U.S. government portal for current nutritional information.
Nutrition and Social Marketing Resources — University of California at Davis
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Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce — a portal for public health information resources
Physical Activity Evaluation Handbook — from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Planned Parenthood of Delaware
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Population Reports — quarterly journal on population issues from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
President's Council on Fitness and Sports
Preventing Chronic Disease Journal — free e-journal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Project Vote Smart
Public Health Nutrition Directors
Quack Watch — a resource on health fraud and quackery
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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SIECUS: The Sex Information and Education Council of the United States
Seek Wellness
Self-Help Magazine
Shape Up America!
Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)
Stress Assess — a stress assessment tool from the University of Wisconsin
Stress at Work — an excellent brochure about worksite stress from NIOSH
Stress Less — news, research and products for less stress
Surgeon General's Call To Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity
Sussex Child Health Promotion Coalition
TheTruth.com — youth anti-tobacco campaign
Tobacco.Org — news about tobacco prevention and control efforts
Tobacco Documents Library — hosted by American Legacy
Transtheoretical Model — an overview of the "stages of change" model for health promotion
Turning Point — social marketing resources for public health
University of Delaware College of Health Sciences
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Violence Against Women (VAW) Resource Library
Web MD — a valuable resource for consumer health information
World Health Organization
Youth Risk Behavior Survey — data on high school student health behaviors
Youth Risk Data for Delaware — from U.D.'s Delaware Data website
Y-Smoke.org — the website of the Delaware Kick Butts Generation, a youth group against tobacco use
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Note To Members: What are we missing? If you know of other quality websites for health educators, send us the URLs so we can add links and continue to make this page a useful resource. Just click this link to email the HENOD webmaster.
Updated 2-19-2008
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