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The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of
all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
Health and Human Services
Links to a variety of resources on a wide range of topics such as:
- Adoption
- Aging
- Child Care
- Child Support Enforcement
- Civil Rights
- Family Assistance
- Food Safety
- Grants
- HIV/AIDS
- Medicaid
- Mental Health
- Smoking
- Substance Abuse
- Teen Pregnancy
Connect to the powerful search engine mounted at HHS
- News and Public Affairs
- Find press releases, fact sheets, speeches, photos, testimony, and more.
HHS Agencies
About HHS
This page includes a topical index to health resources, an organizational chart, employment opportunities, an employee directory,
and links to each agency.
Or connect directly using the links below:
Healthfinder
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Healthfinder
Is a guide to reliable health information. Search strategies allow you to track down information in a variety of ways.
- The Health Library includes hand-picked health information from A to Z - prevention & wellness, diseases & conditions, and alternative medicine
- plus medical dictionaries, an encyclopedia, journals, and more .
- Drug Digest Get information on hundreds of prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
- Health News For hot topics health.
Vital Health Statistics
- CDC Wonder
- WONDER provides a single point of access to a wide variety of public health reports and data systems, both local and external,
categorized here by topic. Topics include: Aging Populations, Births, Cancer Statistics, Deaths, Disabilities, Health data,
Injuries, Mortality, Sexually transmitted diseases, and more. You can access Vital Statistics from the Compressed Mortality
database, the Natality Online database, the Leading Cause of Death, and more under the topic: Reference Data.
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- The Compressed Mortality database contains mortality and population counts for all U.S. counties for the years 1979 to 2005. Counts and rates of death can
be obtained by underlying cause of death, state, county, age, race, sex, and year.
- The Natality online databases report counts of live births occurring within the United States to U.S. residents and non-residents. Counts can be obtained
by state, county, child's gender and weight, mother's race, mother's age, mother's education, gestation period, prenatal care,
birth plurality, and mother's medical and tobacco use risk factors. The data are derived from birth certificates.
Surgeon General Reports
- Reports of the Surgeon General
- Full text reports issued by the Surgeon General are now available in pdf and html formats. Coverage includes reports from
1964 through 2000.
- Find a wide array of hot health topics such as smoking, violence, nutrition, child abuse, aging, HIV and AIDs.
Guides to Health Resources
- Subject Bibliographies Health Care
- Subject bibliographies include titles, SuDoc numbers, prices, and order numbers. Some titles are briefly annotated.
- Health Care
- Mounted on the GPO Access Browse Topics site at the University of Central Oklahoma.
- This web guide points users to the best agency resources available on the topic.
- Healthy People
- Annual reports about the condition of health in the United States. Overview of the nations health also includes numerous tables
and data.
- PubMed Central
- This is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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