Open Directory - Health: Child Health: Information and Advice
- Provides parents, children and first tier health care providers with free, evidence-based information about everday health and comples medical conditions. - From the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, helps parents and their children deal with recent trauma. Learn what to expect after a trauma and how to handle it both physically and mentally. - Information on developmental stages, safety, and advocacy for babies, children, teens, and adolescents. - Free resource for new and expectant parents, with tips and checklists on choosing a pediatrician, baby safety, and product recalls. - A comprehensive educational program to train the proper and biomechanically correct way to use backpacks. Includes a safety video and a list of doctors who will bring the program to participating schools. - Created by nurses and physicians, features information about health, conditions and treatments. Includes a searchable database. - Food and Drug Administration provides medicine cabinet information, vaccination facts, and other health concerns about children. - A complete listing of all health information about kids and teens, including acne, AIDS awareness, allergies and asthma, attention deficit disorders and dyslexia. - A searchable library of articles and links covering vaccinations, ear infections, childhood illnesses, ADHD, and various other conditions, diseases and concerns. - Part of a parenting portal, with information on childhood illnesses, diseases and other various medical conditions. Also provides information on first aid for fevers, colds, cuts and burns. - Find articles, news, and information on vaccinations, medical conditions, surgeries, nutrition and other pediatric health topics. - Information for kids to learn about what happens at the hospital. Find out what to expect from test taken through having an operation, all given in a kid friendly way (cartoons) that will help settle their nerves before going to the hospital. - Fact sheets on common conditions are available for browsing or downloading. Prepared and updated by the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. - A cartoon character and her friends teach young people how to handle risky situations. Includes stories, mini-series, songs and videos, as well as teacher resources. - Experts at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center collaborate with communities and organizations to assist students, staff and families. Includes bereavement guidelines for schools, parent guide and template letters. - Resources for parents with kids of all ages based on popular radio show The Parent Report. Includes articles, book excerpts and radio shows. - Search the database for articles on the health and development of children and parenting advice. - Promotes healthy barefoot activities for children. Provides medical research, literature and suggestions. - A global network of organizations aiming to prevent accidental childhood injury. Provides details of programs and members, with video, news, and safety tips. - Assists parents with a variety of health information and resources for their children. Height and weight growth charts and articles on minor illnesses, first aid and nutrition. - Presents practical, effective and low-cost ways to protect children's lives and health. Includes child development and early learning, nutrition and growth, immunization, hygiene, and injury prevention. - A library of authoritative information for primary care providers and patients. Includes database of resources on illnesses. - Written for parents to help explain diagnostic procedures to their children. - Guide for children's good health, incorporating advice from pediatricians in the community who are specifically trained in the prevention and treatment of illness in children. - Children's Medical Center of Dallas publication advises parents on diverse topics on caring for children, including when various symptoms require a physician's attention.
