General Information Resources
Links to resource guides, information services, and other health related organization websites.
Vaccines and Autism: What You Should Know
Vaccines and Autism: What You Should Know
The Vaccine Education Center of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia provides this question/answer sheet about concerns that vaccines can cause autism. These concerns center on three areas: the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine; thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative previously contained in several vaccines; and the notion that babies receive too many vaccines too soon. |
VAPE
VAPE
“VAPE” is centered around a documentary program regarding the use of E-cigarettes especially in the youth community so parents, educators and juveniles understand the spectrum of health issues and dangers associated with these products. |
Vaping-Induced Lung Injury
Vaping-Induced Lung Injury
A number of environmental agents are known to cause acute or subacute inhalation injury to the lung parenchyma. Indeed, emergency response guidelines for medical personnel describe toxic inhalation pneumonitis as a heterogeneous group of chemically induced injuries to the lung parenchyma as well as to the upper respiratory tract. |
Villa Teresa Catholic Clinic
Villa Teresa Catholic Clinic
The Villa Therese Catholic Clinic is a private organization under religious auspices offering its services to the poor of Santa Fe, regardless of age, race, creed, gender, ethnicity or national origin, sexual orientation, or disability. |
Walk Bike to School
Walk Bike to School
This site covers the basics about Walk to School Day, Bike to School Day and year-round programs. |
Walking Meetings
Walking Meetings
Thinking, talking, and walking are inextricably linked through history. It is only a recent idea that we meet around tables, seated in chairs. We want to help you rediscover and share the value of walking meetings. |
What are the different types of abortion?
What are the different types of abortion?
What are the different types of abortion? |
WIC EBT Shopper
WIC EBT Shopper
Enables WIC participants to verify the WIC eligibility of items while shopping. In many states, EBT Shopper can load the participant’s current WIC benefits, allowing them to know with certainty what they can purchase using the benefits remaining on their card. |
World Health Day
World Health Day
Mosquitoes, flies, ticks and bugs may be a threat to your health – and that of your family - at home and when travelling. This is the message of this year’s World Health Day. |
World Health Organization
World Health Organization
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. |
World Hepatitis Day
World Hepatitis Day
In 2010 the World Health Organization made World Hepatitis Day one of only four official disease-specific world health days, to be celebrated each year on the 28th July. Millions of people across the world now take part in World Hepatitis Day, to raise awareness about viral hepatitis, and to call for access to treatment, better prevention programs and government action. |
YMCA Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring
YMCA Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring
Take action to improve heart health. One in three American adults has high blood pressure, which puts them at risk for stroke and heart disease, two of the leading causes of death in the U.S. |
Zero to Three
Zero to Three
A national nonprofit organization that provides parents, professionals and policymakers the knowledge and the know-how to nurture early development. |
Zero to Three - Social and Emotional Development
Zero to Three - Social and Emotional Development
Strong, positive relationships help children develop trust, empathy, compassion and a sense of right and wrong. |
Zika Care Connect
Zika Care Connect
Zika Care Connect aims to improve access to specialty healthcare services for the management of Zika virus infection during pregnancy and outcomes in infants caused by Zika. The program targets the most important and removable barriers to care, as identified by maternal and pediatric care experts. We focus on women infected with Zika during pregnancy, as well as infants born to mothers with laboratory evidence of Zika. |