How to Evaluate Information
Watch this presentation called ACT UP: Evaluating Resources for Social Justice
Online Resources
- Health Humanities ConsortiumThe Health Humanities Consortium LLC promotes health humanities scholarship, education, and practices that focus on intersections among the humanities, arts and social sciences in health, illness, and healthcare.
- International Health Humanities NetworkThe International Health Humanities Network provides a global platform for innovative humanities scholars, medical, health and social care professionals, voluntary sector workers and creative practitioners to join forces with informal and family carers, service-users and the wider self-caring public to explore, celebrate and develop new approaches in advancing health and wellbeing through the arts and humanities in hospitals, residential and community settings.
- Students for Health HumanitiesSHH is a student organization aiming to educate fellow students on how the humanities (art, literature, music, philosophy, etc) improve medical practice.
- County Health Rankings and Road MapsFrom the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Measures health factors of every county in the United States.
- Kaiser State Health FactsAllows users to do custom health reports for states and compare statistics.
- MedlinePlusMedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.
- National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)The nation's principal health statistics agency.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)CDC is the nation’s leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public’s health.
- Maryland Department of Health (MDH)The homepage for the Maryland Department of Health.
- The Disability MuseumThe Disability History Museum's mission is to foster a deeper understanding about how changing cultural values, notions of identity, laws and policies have shaped and influenced the experience of people with disabilities, their families and their communities over time.
- Graphic MedicineThe website for "the intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare."
- Literature Arts & Medicine MagazineThe LitMed magazine is a forum for addressing current issues in medicine and health through the multiple lenses of art, social sciences, literature, and ethics.
- MedthicsMedthics is an online, photographic novel series that tells the tale of growth for a young health professional. The series coincides with the progression of its author from medical school training into the early moments as a physician
- The Pain ExhibitThe PAIN Exhibit is an online educational, visual arts exhibit from artists with chronic pain with their art expressing some facet of the pain experience. The mission is to educate healthcare providers and the public about chronic pain through art, and to give voice to the many who suffer in silence.
- Practicing MedicineA blog about the inner workings of the field of medicine and its theoretical, practical, and ethical complexities. The blog ended in 2021.
- PulseEvery Friday, Pulse–voices from the heart of medicine publishes and distributes a first-person story or poem, together with a visual image or haiku, about health care.