Research Guides: Health and Wellness: Getting Started

Resources to Get Started

Medline Plus
Consumer health website with highly credible information from the National Library of Medicine.

Administration on Aging
From the Dept. of Health & Human Services. Information related to senior citizens and those who care for them.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Work includes disease prevention and control, environmental health, emergency response, and health promotion activities.
Healthcare.gov
Provides information on government-sponsored health insurance. Popularly known as "Obamacare"
Healthy People 2020
Provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
Kaiser Family Foundation
Provides local information on health issues including health insurance rates.
National Center for Health Statistics
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
National Institutes of Health
From the Dept. of Health & Human Services. Has tabs for Health, Grants, News, Research, & Institutes.
Nutrition.gov
Provides information on food and nutrition
Office of Minority Health
From the Dept. of Health & Human Services. Provides statistics and data relevant to minority groups.
Office on Women's Health
From the Depart of Health & Human Services. Offers county, state, regional, and national health statistics.
Pew Research
A very well-respected gatherer of demographic data on a variety of topics