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Health Information Links - LPC Library

Virtual Reference Books (E-books):

Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior, 3rd ed.


The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition

Web Directories :

Health related web directories are an excellent way to locate reliable information on the Internet. Reliable directories should:

  1. Be maintained by professionals in the subject area;
  2. Post the site's policy and procedures for link choices;
  3. Indicate how often the site links are reviewed;
  4. Annotate links.

The following directories are reliable:

Hardin Metadirectory of Internet Health Sources - Hardin Library, University of Iowa maintains a very large and comprehensive site, which is easy to navigate.

Healthfinder: Your Guide to Reliable Health Information - a searchable directory by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Directory indexes web sites for organization, support groups, self-help associations as well as government agenices.

MedlinePlus - a project of NIH's National Library of Medicine, provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions. Also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health; dictionaries; encyclopedia with good images from Adam, Inc.; tutorials, slide shows, streaming video; lists of hospitals and physicians; clinical trials ; and health information in Spanish and other languages.

NOAH: (New York Online Access to Health) - outstanding site, easy to navigate in English or in Spanish (Pregúntale a NOAH Sobre la Salud)


Many of these links were found through ipl2 (formerly Librarians' Internet Index)

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