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Monday, March 02, 2009

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Idaho CareLine: In Idaho, Dial 2-1-1 or 800-926-2588

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My Family Health Portrait — Americans know that family history is important to health. A recent survey found that 96 percent of Americans believe that knowing their family history is important. Yet, the same survey found that only one-third of Americans have ever tried to gather and write down their family's health history. Because family health history is such a powerful screening tool, the Surgeon General has created a new computerized tool to help make it fun and easy for anyone to create a sophisticated portrait of their family's health. This new tool, called "My Family Health Portrait" can be downloaded for free and installed on your own computer. The tool will help you organize your family tree and help you identify common diseases that may run in your family.

American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry — The AAPD is the professional organization whose dentist members are specifically trained to provide both primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants, children, adolescents, and patients with special health care needs. AAPD offers parent information on commonly asked questions, news releases on emerging dental issues, Internet links, and even activities "just for kids."

American Academy of Pediatrics — Has lots of informative brochures on line (under You and Your Family), links to other sites, and book reviews. The Injury Prevention Program's (TIPP) home page is also located here with age-related fact sheets and suggestions.

American Dental Association — The ADA is the professional association of dentists dedicated to serving both the public and the profession of dentistry. The ADA offers consumer information for parents and children on a variety of oral health topics.

Baby Center — A complete resource for pregnancy and baby. Contains current articles, connections with other parents on-line, and more.

Bright Futures Activity Book — Printable activity pages for children to teach health and safety (with information for parents).

Bright Futures in Practice: Oral Health — Addresses the oral health needs of children ages 0-21 and presents specific health promotion and disease prevention guidelines for creating a foundation for lifelong oral health. Part of the Bright Futures series of guidelines for health supervision of infants, children and adolescents.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — Mission: To promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. The CDC is part of the federal Health and Human Services Department.

Children's Safety Zone — Sponsored by the Drowning Coalition of Arizona and Rural/Metro Mesa Fire Department, with product recall list, fire and pool safety tips.

healthfinder? — A gateway health and human services information website from the US government. healthfinder? can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

KidSource OnLine — The source for in-depth and timely education and healthcare information that will make a difference in the lives of parents and their children.

Mi Pediatra — Informacion relacionada con la salud de los ninos — Spanish language children's health site.

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health — NCEMCH is a national resource center on maternal and child health, offering searchable databases, lists of projects and organizations, publications, bibliographies, and links with other organizations.

NOAH (New York On-Line Access to Health) — NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health and safety information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. NOAH currently supports English and Spanish.

ParenthoodWeb — An award-winning commercial site with parenting, pregnancy, family, childcare, breastfeeding and infant/baby resources, live chat for parents and a forum to submit "ask the expert" questions.