Essential Health Links: Patient-Education/Reproductive Health


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Go Ask Alice
Medline Plus: Reproductive Health
Reproductive Health

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Go Ask Alice (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site is intended for teenagers and young adults and features frank information on safer sex, reproduction, contraception, pregnancy options, sexually transmitted infections, men's sexual health, and women's sexual health. The site is produced by Columbia University (U.S) health educators. http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/Cat7.html


Medline Plus: Reproductive Health
Widely regarded as the gold standard of consumer health information, MedlinePlus offers links to accurate and current medical information that has been evaluated by the National Library of Medicine. The Reproductive Health page features basic overview information, latest news, prevention/screening, related issues, genetics, journal articles statistics, directories and clinical trials information all related to reproductive health, as well as links to related information such as infertility, prenatal care, and teen sexual health. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/reproductivehealth.html


Reproductive Health  (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Spanish)
This section of the Centers for Disease Control (U.S.) site contains information on topics such as adolescent reproductive health, assisted reproductive technology, global reproductive health, maternal and infant health, and refugee reproductive health among others. Featured information includes emergency planning tips if you are pregnant, depression and pregnancy, and smoking and pregnancy. Some of the information is available in Spanish as well as English. http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/index.htm


The Patient Education pages of Essential Health Links are advised by Christie Silbajoris, MSLS, AHIP, Director, NC Health Info, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (U.S.) and Karen Crowell, MLIS, Clinical Specialist, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (U.S).

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Updated: 3 November 2008