KINE 198- Writing Intensive Classes
Health Professions
Health Professions | Statistics | Exercise Guidelines
Dentistry | Dietitian | Health Education | Nurse | Physician | Physical/Occupational Therapy
Dentistry
- Overview: Dentist Forensic Odontology Outlook for dentists
- Associations: American Dental Association
- Education: Dental Program Search
- Journals: Journal of American Dental Association Journal of Dental Research
Dietitian
- Overview: Dietitian Outlook for dietitians
- Associations: American Dietetic Association
- Education: Getting started (ADA) Accredited Programs
- Journals: Journal of the American Dietetic Association
Health Education
- Overview: Health Educators Health Educators Outlook
- Associations: Graduate Programs
- Education: American Association for Health Education Society for Public Health Education
- Journals: American Journal of Health Education Health Education & Behavior
Nurse
- Overview: Nurse Practitioner Registered Nurse more Outlook for nurses
- Associations: American Nurses Association
- Education: Search for nursing program
- Journals: American Journal of Nursing British Journal of Nursing
Physical and Occupational Therapy
- Overview: Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Outlook for Physical therapists
- Associations: American Physical Therapy Association
- Education: Physical Therapist Education Programs Physical Therapy Graduate School Programs
- Journals: Physical Therapy Physical Therapy in Sports
- Overview: Becoming an MD (AMA) Outlook for physicians
- Associations: American Medical Association
- Education: Medical Schools
- Journals: BMJ JAMA
- Adolescent Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: health risk behavior statistics from 1996-present
- CDC Wonder (variety of health topics)
- Child Health USA: statistics on children's health
- Current Population Survey (CPS) includes data on income, health insurance coverage, and more
- Exercise/Physical Activity Data from National Health Statistics Center (CDC)
- Healthy People DATA 2010: data by focus area, data source, specific population group, and more
- Health Poll Search: interactive results from polls on health related issues
- Infant Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
- Men's Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
- Minority Health data from State Health Facts includes interactive tables, bar graphs, and maps
- Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities (OMHD) cultural specific pages (demographics, 10 leading causes of death, and more):
- African American
- American Indian & Alaska Native
- Asian American
- Hispanic or Latino
- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
- Multiracial
- White
- U. S. Physical Activity Statistics from CDC
2008 Physical Activity Guidelines from U. S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
For everyone
- American Academy of Family Physicians: Exercise: How to Get Started
- CDC- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
- Effective Population-Level Strategies to Promote Physical Activity (from Guide to Community Preventive Services) from this article: Recommendations to increase physical activity in communities (from American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002; 22(4S: 67-72)
- Physical Activity Evaluation Handbook: program evaluation guide for physical activity interventions
- Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health
- Healthy People 2010: Chapter 22- Physical Activity and Fitness
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: Information for Patients and the Public- Key Recommendations
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity: brief interventions in primary care, exercise referral schemes, pedometers, and community-based exercise programs for walking and cycling
- The Effectiveness of Interventions to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review (from American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002; 22(4S: 73-107)
- President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: variety of reports on fitness for all age groups
For adults and seniors
- American College of Sports Medicine
- Guidelines for healthy adults under age 65
- Guidelines for healthy adults over age 65 or with 50-64 with chronic conditions
- University of Iowa: Evidence based practice guideline: Exercise promotion: walking in elders
- 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines from U. S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
For children and adolescents
- American Academy of Pediatrics: Active healthy living: prevention of childhood obesity through increased physical activity
- American Heart Association: Overweight in children and adolescents: pathophysiology, consequences, prevention, and treatment
- National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: Identifying and preventing overweight in childhood. Clinical practice guideline.
- President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls
- University of Iowa: Increasing physical activity in schools: kindergarten through eighth grade
For chronic illness/pain
- American College of Sports Medicine Guidelines for healthy adults over age 65 or with 50-64 with chronic conditions
- American Heart Association:
- Exercise and physical activity in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease
- Physical activity and exercise recommendations for stroke survivors
- School of Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner Program (UT at Austin)
- United States Preventive Task Force: Primary care interventions to prevent low back pain in adults: recommendation statement
- Women's Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
- World Health Organization: physical activity data
