Healthy Resources

HEALTH INFORMATION LINKS

Take Charge of Your Health ... by staying informed about ways to stay healthy.

  • America on the Move
    offers a set of meaningful, achievable health goals, track your progress along some of America's most famous trails, helps make healthy eating and active living part of your daily routine.
  • HealthyLibrary.com
    A library on procedures, conditions, treatments, and guidelines for people of various needs.
  • Healthy People 2010
    is a set of health objectives for the nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century and to help them develop programs to improve health.
  • MedlinePlus
    NLM and NIH site with information on 650 diseases and conditions, lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, media information, and links to thousands of clinical trials
  • Memphis Medical Society
    Connects you to the medical society for doctors throughout the Mid-South.
  • Memphis Library Virtual Health Information Center
  • National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse
    The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) information about diabetes, pre-diabetes, diagnosis information, pregnancy and diabetes, and a dictionary of diabetes terms.
  • NOAH
    The New York Online Access to Health provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish
  • WebMD
    consumer-oriented health website
  • WIN
    Weight - Control Information Network -- The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Weight-control Information Network (WIN).

FOR EMPLOYERS

  • Lean Works
    Leading Employees to Activity and Nutrition is a free Web-based workplace obesity prevention program.
  • National Business Group on Health
    In January 2004, the National Business Group on Health issued this guide designed to help employers implement successful disease prevention programs. Based on recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the guide includes tools to help employers assess their employees' health risks, choose appropriate preventive services, secure employee participation and evaluate program effectiveness.
  • Smallsteps
    A Health and Human Services site with practicle suggestions for controlling your weight.
  • Tennessee on the Move
    A statewide initiative to fight obesity -- feel free to use our group registration code: RHE1358.
  • VERB: CDC's Youth Campaign for Physical Activity
    is a national, multicultural, social marketing campaign coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that encourages young people ages 9-13 (tweens) years to be physically active every day.