Health & Public Safety

These resources support the Health and Public Safety curriculum offered at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. Some are available for off-campus use by Cincinnati State students, faculty, and staff with a valid Cincinnati State SurgeCard.

• Health Databases
• Health and Public Safety Resources—General
• Health and Public Safety Resources by Program or Topic

Health Databases

• CINAHL: Nursing and Allied Health Literature, 1982-  
• Alt-HealthWatch: complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health
• Free Medical Journals:  free access to medical, nursing and allied health journals, usually available six months to one year after publication
• Health Source/Consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Images: 3,000,000 images from the National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Images.MD (the online encyclopedia of medical images)
• Natural and Alternative Treatments
• ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
• OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center, Health Sciences and Medicine
• MEDLINE
• PubMed (a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Indexing life science and biomedical journals back to the 1950s)
• MerckMedicus

Health and Public Safety Resources—General

• 1Up Health
• All About Black Health
  
• American Hospital Directory
• Asbestos.com
• CDC Health Topics A to Z
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Choose My Plate
• Cincinnati Area Hospitals and Tri-State Hospital Associations
• Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide
• Combined Health Information Database
  
• Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
  
• Directory of Health and Human Services Data Resources
• Discovery Health
• Dr. Koop's Community
• Everyday Health
• Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center 
• Greater Cincinnati Health Council
• Harvard World Health News
• Health A to Z
  Health and Medical Care Archive
• Health Central
• Health Hero Network
• Health Pages     
• Health Web
• Health World Online
• Healthfinder
• HealthGate
• HealthInfoQuest
• Healthy People
• Help for Health
• Hippocratic Oath
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine
  
• History of Vaccines
• Hospital Compare
• ICD-9
• InteliHealth
  
• KidsHealth
• Male Health Center
• Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
• Med Help International
• Medical Breakthroughs:
• Medical Encyclopedia from MEDLINEplus
• MedicineNet
• MEDLINEplus: Drug Information
• MEDLINEplus: Health Information
• Medpedia
• MedWeb
• Merck Manual (home edition)
• Mind/Body Medicine
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• National Center for Environmental Health
• National Center for Health Statistics
• National Guideline Clearinghouse:  "a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines."
• National Institutes of Health
• National Library of Medicine
• National Library of Medicine Gateway
• NetWellness, now featuring Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• Ohio Hospital Association
• OSHWEB   
  
• PSNet: Patient Safety Network
• SciCentral: Gateway to the Best Science and Engineering Online Resources
  
• ToxLearn
• Treatment 4 Addiction
• WebMD
• Wellness Web
• Who Named It?: The World's most comprehensive Dictionary of Medical Eponyms
• Women's Health

Health and Public Safety Resources by Program or Topic

Aging

• Administration on Aging
• National Institute on Aging
• Social Geronotology & the Aging Revolution

Anatomy

• Human Anatomy Online
• The Visible Human Project
• LUMEN Cross-Section Tutorial

Biosciences

• Becoming Human
• BioMed Central
• Biosciences (from the Virtual Library)
  
• Dictionary of Cell Biology
  

Biotechnology

Clinical Laboratory

• American Association of Bioanalysts
• American Society of Clinical Pathologists
• Atlas of Hematology
  
• Hardin, MD: Pathology and Laborartory Medicine
• Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases
• Hemopathology Index
• Leukemia Society of America
• MedTechNet
  
• University of Washington Hematopathology Laboratory
• Virtual Autopsy
• World Federation of Hemophilia
• World Wide Web Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Links

Community Health

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

• CAM on PubMed

Diagnostic Medical Sonography

• American Registry of Radiologic Technologists
• Joint Review Committee on Education in Medical Diagnostic Sonography
• Obstetric Ultrasound: A Comprehensive Guide by Joseph Woo
• Society of Medical Diagnostic Sonography
  Ultrasound Technician
• Ultrasounds, from About.com

Disabilities and Diseases

• Ability Online Support Network
  
• AEGIS:"the largest HIV/AIDS website in the world"
• Alliance of Genetic Support Groups
• American Cancer Society
• American with Disabilities Act Document Center
  
• Diseases, Disorders, and Related Topics
• Family Village: Resource for People with Disabilities and Their Families
• Growth House
• Gulf War Illnesses
• H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center
• HIV InSite
• HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service
• Information on Deafness
• National Cancer Institute
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
• OncoLink: Cancer information.

Drugs

• Adverse Drug Information Resources
  
• Food and Drug Administration
• RxList: The Internet Drug Index
• USP (U. S. Pharmacopeia)

Electrocardiography

Emergency Medical/Paramedic

• American Ambulance Association
• National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians
• National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians

Fire Service

Fitness

• Human Kinetics
  
• National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
• National Athletic Trainers' Association
  

Health Information Management

• American Health Information Management Association

Immunology

• Glossary of Immunology

Law Enforcement

Massage Therapy

• Backrubs FAQs
• Massage Therapy for Health and Fitness
  

Medical Assisting

• American Association of Medical Assistants
• American Health Information Management Association

Medical Dictionaries

• Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms
• MedTerms.com
• Multilingual Medical Glossary

Medical Records and Transcription

• ICD-9 Search
• Medical Privacy
  

Medical Technology

• American Medical Technologists
• Microbial Underground
• MedTechNet
• National Institute of Mental Health

Microbiology

• American Society for Microbiology
• Glossary of Microbiology
• Microbes.info

Multicompentency Health Technician

Nursing

• American Association for the History of Nursing
• American Nurses Association
• The Future of Nursing:  Leading Change, Advancing Health
  
• Idea Nurse

• InterNurse: Nursing on the Internet
• Martindale's Virtual Nursing Center
• National League for Nursing
• NurseWeek
  
• Nursing Net
  
• SpringNet for Nurses
• The Virtual Nursing Center

Occupational Therapy

• National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy
• National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
• OT Links
• American Occupational Therapy Association

Patient Care

• Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links

Pediatrics

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Public Safety

Respiratory Care

• National Board for Respiratory Care
• National Jewish Medical and Research Center: Specializing in Lung Disorders and Allergies
• Respiratory Links

Surgical Technology

• Your Surgery