Misc Health Resources

The following is a selection of useful websites and blogs relating to Health. They are updated from time to time.

Consumer sites/decision aids

• Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence-based Decision-making
• Discern
• Health Consumers Council WA
• Health Talk Online (sharing experiences of illness)
• Ottawa Health Research Institute patient decision aids
• Smart Health Choices: Making Sense of Health Advice (a free e-book)

Evidence-based Medicine

• Bandolier
• BestHealth
• Campbell Collaboration
• Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence-based Decision-making
• Cochrane reviews
• Evidence-based health news from a collaboration between the BMJ and the Guardian
• Free Cochrane Library access
• Informed Health Online
• James Lind Library
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK
• NHS National Library for Health
• Ottawa Health Research Institute patient decision aids
• Smart Health Choices: Making Sense of Health Advice (a free e-book)
• The Health Informaticist

Health and medical news sites

• 6 Minutes medical news

Health blogs

• Australian Health Information Technology
• Dr Kevin Pho
• Global Health Ideas
• Health Beat
• Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma
• The Effect Measure
• The Health Informaticist
• The Pump Handle

Health information sites

• Australian Government news on swine flu (H1N1
• Evidence-based health news from a collaboration between the BMJ and the Guardian
• Smart Health Choices: Making Sense of Health Advice (a free e-book)

Health policy sites

• A blog on health impact assessments
• Australian Policy Online’s health section
• Health Wonk Review
• National Health & Medical Research Council
• National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission

Journals

• Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management
• British Medical Journal
• Journal of Medical Internet Research
• Medical Journal of Australia
• The Lancet

Media-related

• Australian Health News Research Collaboration
• Behind the Headlines
• Covering Health
• Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog
• Health News Review
• Media Doctor Australia
• Media Doctor Canada
• Smart Health Choices: Making Sense of Health Advice (a free e-book)
• US health journalism academic Gary Schwitzer
• Wall Street Journal's health blog

Public health sites

• Public Health Matters – CDC
• World Health News
• Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity