Links

Searching for sources for your Health Studies coursework?  Visit Dickinson's Health Studies Research Guide.  
 

Careers Related to Health Studies

• This Is Public Health - The Association of Schools of Public Health shows how the field of public health pervades our lives.
• Cause-Effect-What a Degree in Public Health Can Do for You - Also from the Association of Schools of Public Health, this video profiles grad students and professionals in public health.

Federal Government

• Centers for Disease Control
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• The National Womens Health Information Center
• Medline Plus Online Health Information Center
• Childstats.Gov
• Healthy People 2010
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Qualty (DHHS) Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
• National Cancer Inst, Health Info Trends Survey (HINTS) items

Local Agencies

• Partnership for Better Health
• Dickinson College: American and Global Mosaic Projects

State Government

• PA Health Care Cost Containment Council
• PA Medical Society
• PA State Data Center
• Hospital Association of PA
• The Keystone Research Center

Nonprofits

• Center for Science in the Public Interest
• Women's Data Center
• Families USA

Resources

• PubMed "Population Health" Research Query Information
• ADD Health (National Survey of Adolesent Health) Items
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (DHHS)Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
• Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services Directory of Instruments
• Sheldon Cohen's Health and Stress Scales
• Natl Cancer Inst, Health Info Trends Survey (HINTS) items
• Rand Corporation Health Survey Instruments
• SAMHDA Survey Instruments
• Social-Personality Psych Questionnaire Instrument Compendium

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