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Engender Health [www.engenderhealth.org]
is an organization that works to educate people worldwide
about reproductive health services. The site has information
about various types of family planning and tips on choosing
the most appropriate methods of contraception.
Engender Health, which works in 30 countries, lists
each nation's profile and discusses each country's family-planning
methods. Professional materials such as videos can be
ordered, some for free. The five online courses available
do not offer credit, but a certificate of completion
can be printed.
The site runs stories related to infection control
designed specifically for nurses working in Third World
countries. Many articles are available in languages
other than English.
Mental illness
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill [www.nami.org]
is a nonprofit organization that aims to help people
with mental illness. The site offers links to support
groups, mental illness education, advocacy and research.
Fact sheets on specific types of mental illness include
childhood OCD, early onset bipolar disorder, Asperger's
disorder, Tourettes's syndrome, teen-age suicide and
the subject of dual diagnosis in adolescents.
The site includes information about developing individualized
education plans for children with mental illness, rights
of parents of children with disabilities and information
about transitioning adolescents with mental illness
into adult roles.
Teen pregnancy
Each year, nearly half a million teen-age girls give
birth in the United States-that's more than 55 babies
born to teen mothers every hour.
Geared toward teen-agers, parents and health care professionals,
www.teenpregnancy.org
is part of a campaign to lower the national teen pregnancy
rate. The site has an online quiz for teen-agers, tips,
fact sheets, a resource guide and a 17-chapter practical
manual for people interested in taking action to prevent
teen pregnancy in their communities.
The following PowerPoint presentations can be downloaded:
Teen Pregnancy-An Overview, Just the Facts, Hispanic
Research Project and selected survey results from the
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Visitors
to the site without the software can download a PowerPoint
viewer for free.
Breast-feeding central
La Leche League International was founded in 1956 with
the sole purpose of helping nursing mothers. The League
reports that each year 750,000 mothers in the United
States call the organization with questions. La Leche
offers 24-hour telephone counseling.
The group's Web site [www.lalecheleague.org]
presents information about the organization and breast-feeding
products. Advocacy and professional information available
include a listing of conferences, breast-feeding abstracts
and an information database, educational offerings,
a summary of breast-feeding legislation and citations
to breast-feeding publications. The site has an extensive
list of questions and answers that could be a valuable
resource for new mothers.
Breathe easy
The American Association for Respiratory Care site
[www.aarc.org]
is designed for respiratory therapists, but also offers
a wealth of information on the subject for nurses. The
patient education page has information sheets about
asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, oxygen therapy, pollution
and tuberculosis. A follow-up respiratory health IQ
test can be taken and graded online.
Links are provided to respiratory care news, headline
topics, health care organizations and publications,
consumer and government sites.
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