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Associations, Institutions, Etc.

• American Association for Health Education (AAHE)
• American College Health Association (ACHA)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• American School Health Association (ASHA)
• Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE)
• Eta Sigma Gamma (ESG) (national professional health education honorary)
• National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC)
• National Wellness Institute (NWI)
• Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)
• World Health Organization (WHO)

Gender in Sports

• Gender Equity in College Sports (statistics from coeducational colleges offering intercollegiate athletics)
• Gender, Sport and Society Forum (current issues and new research in gender and sport)
• National Association for Girls & Women in Sport (NAGWS) (champions equal funding, quality, and respoect for girls and women in sport)
• Project to Eliminate Homophobia in Sport (educates the public to respect all athlethes and sports-affiliated personnel regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression)
• Women's Sports Foundation (charitable educational organization dedicated to advancing the lives of girls and women through sports & physical activity)

Governmental Agencies

• Administration on Aging
• American FactFinder (gateway to 2000 Census data)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Healthy Youth (CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health)
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
• National Institute on Aging (NIA)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• U.S. Census Bureau (for additional Census information see the Statistics page at the Virtual Reference Desk)
• U.S. Department of Education (DOE)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Information Sources

• American Heart Association (AHA)
• American Lung Association (ALA)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• CDC Wonder (wide variety of reports and numeric public health data)
• Health A to Z (interactive tools, web sites, community builders, & information centers)
• Health Education Assets Library (digital library of freely accessible, web-based multimedia teaching materials)
• Healthfinder (DHHS) (carefully selected information and web sites from over 1,700 health-related organizations
• Healthy People 2010 (set of health objectives for the nation)
• Mayo Clinic Health Oasis (reliable health information)
• National Center for Health Education (programs & initiatives focused on improving the health of Americans)
• National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (studies and combats abuse of all substances)
• National Safe Kids Campaign (prevention of unintentional childhood injury)
• Quackwatch (quackery-related information, frauds, myths, fads, & fallacies)
• Shape-Up America! (dedicated to achieving healthy weight for life)
• Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)

Jobs

• The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network
• HPCareer.net (jobs for health professionals)
• Health Care Career Sites (CSU Career Services Center)

Journals

• Education Journals
  • Book Studies & Arts
  • College & School Publications
  • Education - General
  • Education, Special Topics
  • Educational Institutions
  • History of Education
  • Student Fraternities & Societies - U.S.
  • Theory & Practice of Education
• Health Sciences Journals

K-12 Resources and Lesson Plans

• Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
• Education World (lesson plans, technology issues, and other resources)
• Educator's Reference Desk: Health Lesson Plans (resource guides, lesson plans, and questions archive)
• Educator's Reference Desk: Physical Education Lesson Plans (resource guides, lesson plans, and questions archive)
• The Gateway to Educational Materials (resources, lesson plans by topic and grade level)
• Health Teacher (health curriculum for K-12 teachers)
• KidsHealth (doctor-approved health information about children from birth through adolescence)
• LINCS Health & Literacy Special Collection (for teaching health to people with limited literacy skills)
• PE Central (developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth)

Reference Resources

• A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (Oxford University Press)
• Food and Fitness (Oxford University Press)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (Oxford University Press)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • Education Abstracts
  • Education Research Complete
  • ERIC
    • ERIC Tutorial (Miami)
    • How to Find ERIC Documents
  • Physical Education Index
  • SPORTDiscus with Full Text
    
• Additional Databases:
  • Academic Search Complete Video Help
  • Alt-HealthWatch
  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text
  • Health and Psychosocial Instruments
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  • International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
  • MedicLatina
  • MEDLINE with Full Text (1950-)
  • PubMed (1950s-)
  • Natural & Alternative Treatments
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
  • PsycINFO (1967-)
  • PsycINFO Historic (1887-1966)

Sport Psychology

• American Psychological Association: Exercise and Sport Psychology
• GetPsychedSports.org (making sports a vehicle for lifelong learning)
• John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (reports on intercollegiate athletics)
• North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS)
• Scholarly Sport Sites (subject directory of pertinent web information)
• Zone of Excellence (achieving potential in sport, the performing arts, education, and the workplace)