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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Spanish
This is the Spanish resource for this DHHS agency. Its goals are to: "support improvement in health outcomes; strengthen quality measurements and improvement; and to identify strategies to improve access, foster appropriate use and reduce unnecessary expenditures." The site contains information on issues of mental health; rural health; markets; healthcare costs; elderly issues; and other policy related information.

American Lung Association
This organization works against lung disease, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health. The site provides links to data and statistics on lung related diseases. The site also has information in Spanish.

Bright Futures
Bright Futures is dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice. Special topic areas include: nutrition, oral health, mental health, physical activity and families. They also have resources in Spanish.

Cancer Prevention & Control
This Spanish language website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention covers cancer prevention and control topics.

Centro Nacional de Salud Ambiental (NCEH)
This is a Spanish language site of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH). The NCEH works "to prevent illness, disability, and death from interactions between people and the environment." Their site contains information on their programs, publications, and a version for kids.

Consumer Product Safety Commission
The CPSC is an independent Federal regulatory agency that "help keep American families safe by reducing the risk of injury or death from consumer products." There is information for kids, an opportunity to report unsafe products, information on recalls, businesses, a library and information for consumers in English and in Spanish.

Environmental Defense - Spanish
Environmental Defense works to link "science, economics, and law to create innovative, equitable, and cost-effective solutions to the most urgent environmental problems." This link will take you to the Spanish language version of the site.

Environmental Research Foundation (ERF)
The ERF's goal is "to provide understandable scientific information about the influence of toxic substances on human health and the environment." The site contains links to an online weekly update, publications, organizations, related sites, a library and a calendar. The site is also available in Spanish.

Family Health International (FHI)
FHI "works to improve reproductive and family health around the world through biomedical and social science research, innovative health service delivery interventions, training and information programs." Some of their program areas include: family planning, HIV/AIDS and STDs, Women's Health and infectious disease. Their page is accessible in French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.

Health Consumer Alliance
"HCA is a partnership of consumer assistance programs operated by community-based legal services organizations. Our common mission is to help low-income people obtain essential health care." This site has consumer resources, advocate resources, publication, information on children & youths, managed care, disability, and pages in numerous foreign languages (e.g. Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Spanish). Although this program focuses on California, it may provide a useful tool for other states.

Health Poll Search
Health Poll Search is a searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues that allows users to know what Americans think about health issues, as well as what Americans have thought about health issues over time. Health Poll Search is the result of a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut. The Roper Center houses an archive of more than 350,000 public opinion questions dating back to 1935. The Health Poll Search archive covers 29 topics and more than 300 subtopics, and holds more than 60,000 questions on health issues from health care surveys that have included questions on health. These questions provide information on public perceptions of HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, health policy and health reform, Medicare and Medicaid, women's health, the uninsured, minority health, and children's health. Response percentages and source information are provided for all questions.

HIV Insite: Gateway to AIDS Knowledge
Sponsored by the University of California San Francisco, HIV Insite: Gateway to AIDS Knowledge provides HIV/AIDS resources. The site contains links to medical treatments, prevention, social/policy, statistics, maps, topics and links. The site is also available in Spanish.

International Healthy Cities Foundation (IHCF)
These pages are available in five languages--English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. The mission of the IHCF is to "facilitate linkages among people, issues and resources in order to support the development of Healthy Cities initiatives." The IHCF will link people, organizations, and networks currently working to advance Healthy City goals and provide linkages with others dealing with significant and related areas of work." The Foundation site contains links to their programs as well as a searchable database for information on Healthy Cities.

National Alliance for Hispanic Health
This organization focuses on health and human services needs of the Hispanic community. While the entire site is not available in Spanish, there are some Spanish links available. Overall, the site contains information on various issues, including: cancer, HIV/AIDS, tobacco, and youth and family policy as well as funding leads and web links. Web links contain extensive listing of companies, organizations, and topics.

National Women's Health Information Center
This web site, from the Office on Women's Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, "provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's health information resources." The site contains information on their various programs, including Minority Health Information, information in Spanish, and their programs and initiatives.

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)
The Society's mission is "to stimulate the generation of new knowledge concerning nicotine in all its manifestations -- from molecular to societal." They offer a newsletter, message board, abstracts to their journal (Nicotine & Tobacco Research), a training directory, publications, event information and other resources. The information is also available in German and French.

New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)
This site allows you to select resources in Spanish or English. Originally established as a responsible and authoritative bilingual health information site, NOAH has continued to support their original mission while expanding health topics, and provider menus. The web site offers a subject index, word search, information on patients rights and physician information.

WHO Library and Information Networks for Knowledge (WHOLink)
This is the World Health Organization's virtual library. Their library catalogue is searchable and they also list health issues by topics. These topic pages provide health resources in French and Spanish.

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