A Brief List of World Wide Web Sites
Prepared by Oonagh Maley, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, September, 1997

http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/top.html#top1
Health Care Information Resources
...for patients, their families, friends and health care workers
This site, developed and maintained by Tom Flemming, Head of Public Services, McMaster University Health Sciences Library, provides extensive links to health care resources on the Internet.

http://www.health.sympatico.ca
Health and Fitness (former HealthyWay)
HealthyWay provides access to over 7,000 health and wellness sites, including over 3,000 reviewed and rated sites

http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp
Medical Matrix
Medical Matrix provides links to clinical medical resources on the Internet. These resources are reviewed by an editorial board, and organized into toics to be of use to frontline physicians and healthworkers in the US.



http://www.hwc.ca/
Health Canada/Santé Canada
This Website provides information on Health Canada programs, and links to national and international health sites.

http://www.hea.org.uk/hpic/hpic.html
Health Education Authority (HEA)
England's leading provider of health promotion, the Health Education Authority provides information on HEA activities, and access to HEA resources.

http://www.monash.edu.au/health/
Health Promotion on the Internet
This health promotion site was developed and is maintained by the Monash University Faculty of Medicine Health Promotion Unit in Australia, and includes an interactive lounge and links to health promotion resources.

http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Healthfinder
Launched April 15th, 1997, this US Government Website provides consumers with access to health information.

http://hippo.findlaw.com/hippohome.html
Health Hippo
The Healthy Hippo is a resource for US health care policy and regulatory materials.

http://www.health.state.ny.us/
New York State Department of Health
The New York State Department of Health Website provides information and forms for accessing vital records (birth, death, marriage and adoption), and New York State health care information for consumers, health care providers and researchers, as well as links to other health related sites.

http://www.opc.on.ca/
Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (OPC)
OPC supports health promotion and prevention activities across Ontario, and provides information links to programs and publications, as well as links to Internet resources in the areas of health promotion,community development, children & youth, social development and justice, and organizational change. A collection of health related sites prepared for the Centre for Health Promotion's Consolidation of Evidence on the Effectiveness of Health Promotion Workshop (May 1997) is available on the Web site. http://www.opc.on.ca/opc/healthpromo/dbanglist.html

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
US National Library of Medicine
This is home page for the US National Library of Medicine.

http://www.who.ch/
World Health Organization/Organisation mondiale de la santé
The home page for the World Health Organization (WHO) includes a link to the WHO Library.



http://www.intelihealth.com/
InteliHealth
Supported by Aetna U.S. Healthcare, Intelihealth works with John Hopkins to produce this consumer health information Web Site.

http://www.medscape.com/
Medscape
Medscape provides access to full-text clinical articles, medical news, and MEDLINE. The site also includes interactive medical quizzes.

http://www.netwellness.org
NetWellness: better health through information
Part of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, NetWellnessTM is an electronic consumer health library [formerly the Ohio Valley Community Health Information Network (or OVCHIN)].

http://www.noah-health.org
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
NOAH provides health information for consumers in English and Spanish. Sponsors for the site include: The City university of New York (CUNY), The New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency, and The New York Public Library.

http://www.shn.net/
Sapient Health Network
SHN is a free interactive health information service that provides condition-specific information for people with serious and chronic illness (including asthma, breast cancer, depression, diabetes, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and heart disease).

http://indy.radiology.uiowa.edu/
The Virtual Hospital
The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library run by the Electric Differential Multimedia Laboratory,Department of Radiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine. The Virtual Hospital provides patient care and continuing education to healthcare professions, and health information to the general public.



http://www.cafeherpe.com/
Café Herpe
Sponsored by SmithKline Beecham, this resource site for genital herpes is aimed at US audiences and features some very clever design.

http://www.cyberDocs.com/
CyberDocs
CyberDocs is a "virtual medical practice." Doctors provide online medical consultation -- live via the internet.

http://www.cyberisle.org/access/buspass.php3
Cyberisle
Created by teens for teens, Cyberisle provides links to anti-smoking resources, health organizations, and information on sexual, mental and general health. Cyberisle is a project of TeenNet at the Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine,University of Toronto.

http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/
Family Village: A Global Community of Disability-Related Resources
Based at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Family Village is an interactive Website for persons with learning disabilities, their families and support staff.

http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/healthwise/alice.html
Go Ask Alice!
Go Ask Alice! is an interactive question and answer service provided by the Education Division of Columbia University Health Services. Each week, Alice answers questions anonymously and publicly on its Website.

http://kidshealth.org/
KidsHealth.org
This site is a project of The Nemours Center for Children's Health Media at the duPont Hospital for Children, Wilminton, Delaware. KidsHealth.org provides information for kids, parents and health professionals.



http://www.sixsenses.com/
The Six Senses Review
Six Senses provides a rating scheme for evaluating medical and healthcare Web sites.