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Annotation: The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) sets national health goals and objectives and supports programs, services, and education activities that improve the health of all Americans. ODPHP sponsors trainings (e-learning courses), visiting scholars and residencies, and the National Health Information Center and manages the health.gov, HealthyPeople.gov, and healthfinder.gov websites. Congress founded ODPHP in 1976 to lead disease prevention and health promotion efforts in the United States. ODPHP is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.

Keywords: Consumer education, Health promotion, Healthy People 2010, Information sources, Prevention, Prevention programs, Program descriptions, Publications, Public awareness materials, Referrals, Self help clearinghouses, World Wide Web

Annotation: The Parent's Journal is a weekly national radio series for parents, care-givers, educators, and others who care for children. Host Bobbi Conner and nationally acclaimed guests discuss a variety of contemporary parenting issues such as childhood sleep problems, temper tantrums, sibling squabbles, friendship skills, setting limits, childcare, and homework hassles.

Keywords: Consumer education, Health promotion, Information sources, Internet, Parenting skills

Annotation: Public Health Television (PHTv) is a digital communications network designed to reach society's most vulnerable populations with information that can advance positive health and social outcomes. PHTv delivers health education and wellness programming to its network of flat-panel LCD television displays located in the reception areas of federally certified rural health clinics (RHCs), federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), and select public health facilities. The PHTv Network reaches patients / viewers at the point-of-care with targeted, culturally tailored and linguistically appropriate programming that creates awareness, encourages healthy outcomes, and motivates individuals to adopt recommended behaviors.

Keywords: Clinics, Consumer education materials, Health education, Information networks, Media, Prevention programs

Keywords: Child development, Consumer education, Dictionaries, Directories, Health promotion, Information sources, Internet, NLM, Pregnancy, Women's health

Annotation: The primary goal of the Urban Health Partners program at Wayne State University is to promote and enhance health information services to Detroit’s public health professionals. The target audience for the program is public health providers lacking traditional access to a medical library serving hard-to-reach and underserved populations in southeastern Michigan. A secondary goal is to facilitate improved access to an online collection of organized, quality Arabic-language health education materials for providers and health information seekers; over 80 publications in Arabic are available at no charge on the Web site.

Keywords: Information services, Materials for consumers, Medical libraries, Non English language materials, Underserved communities, Urban health