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Consumer Health

Dr. Koop's Preventionnaire - personalized confidential interactive health risk appraisal survey
     http://www.drkoop.com/adam/mhc/top/001931.htm
Personal Health Guide: Put Prevention Into Practice
     http://www.ahcpr.gov/ppip/ppadult.htm
Child Health Guide: Put Prevention Into Practice
     http://www.ahcpr.gov/ppip/ppchild.htm
American Medical Association Preventive Health Services by Age and Procedure for Adolescents and Young Adults
     http://www.ama-assn.org/adolhlth/recomend/monotbl3.htm
Rock the Vote - glossary of health care terms
     http://www.iuma.com/RTV/glossary.html
Health Hotlines - National Library of Medicine -- online database of health organizations operating 24 hour telephone hotline services
     http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hotlines/index.html
Be Well - Healthy Living Electronic Magazines with consumer information on athletics, nutrition, men's health, women's health, healthy mind, healthy parenting, healthy sexuality, and healthy traveler
     http://beWELL.com
Quick Checks for Selecting Quality Health Care - Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
     http://www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/quick.htm
Creating your Personal and Family Health History Records - from the American Medical Association
     http://www.ama-assn.org/insight/yourhlth/per_hlth/per_hlth.htm

Communicating With Your Health Care Provider

American Cancer Society's Talking With Your Doctor
     http://www.cancer.org/patinform/talking3.html
American Heart Association's Tips on How to Talk to a Medical Professional
     http://www.amhrt.org/Health/Talking_with_Your_Doctor/talktips.html
Insurance Information
     http://www.drkoop.com/hcr/insurance
Personal Drug Store
     http://www.drkoop.com/drugstore
Prescription Medicines and You
     http://www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/ncpiebro.htm
National Health Information Center
     http://nhic-nt.health.org
National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH)
     http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/what.htm
National Food Safety Database
     http://www.foodsafety.org/consumer.htm
Idea Central Health Policy Page
     http://epn.org/idea/health.html
National Council Against Health Fraud
     http://www.ncahf.org
MedicineNet - medical news, directory of procedures, medical dictionary, pharmacy, and first aid info for the consumer
     http://www.medicinenet.com/Script/Main/hp.asp
Health Insurance Association of America - comprehensive information about health insurance
     http://www.hiaa.org/consumerinfo/guidehi.html
Drug Information Search Engine from Healthtouch
     http://www.healthtouch.com/level1/p_dri.htm
Combined Health Information Database - produced by health agencies of the federal government
     http://chid.nih.gov/welcome/welcome.html
A guide to Health Care Reform for Young Americans
General Information

     http://www.iuma.com/rtv
Health Care Survey of young adults
     http://www.iuma.com/RTV/survey.html
Poison Control Centers in the United States
     http://www.usmedicine.com/poison.html
Consumer Health Information - complete text publications from the Federal Government, Pueblo, CO
     http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/health.htm
Medical Self-care for Common Health Conditions - Women's health, men's health, children's health, first aid
     http://www.healthy.net./home/medicalselfcare.htm
Vitality.com -- Self-care information for men and women, plus a daily wellness tip
     http://www.vitality.com

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