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Health - General Interest

see also Brain Injury Resources

• American National Standards Institute
• Canadian Cochrane Centre - affiliated with the Cochrane Collaboration, an international non-profit organization, based in the United Kingdom, that aims to help people make informed decisions about health care by reviewing and promoting the best available evidence on the effects of interventions and treatments. The organization was founded in 1979 by Archie Cochrane, a British epidemiologist. CASLPA member This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is our representative to the organization.
• Public Health Agency of Canada / Agence de la santé publique du Canada
• Canadian Human Rights Commission / Commission canadienne des droits de la personne
• Canadian Institute of Child Health (CICH) / Institut canadien de la santé infantile (ICSI) - CICH is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children and youth in Canada. / L'ICSI se voue à l'amélioration de l'état de santé et du bien-être des enfants et jeunes du Canada.
• The Canadian Institutes of Health Research / Instituts canadiens de recherche en santé - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is a broad national coalition that is supporting the development of an organization that can provide the federal government with an effective and imaginative means of fostering a holistic national health research effort.
• Connect - The Communication Disability Network - Connect is a new national charity. Our vision is a world where communication disability is not a
  barrier to opportunity and fulfilment. We work with people with communication
  disability to find new ways of ‘talking’ and new ways of living.
• Le Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) - Son mandat est de coordonner et de promouvoir le développement et le maintien des activités de recherche en santé au Québec et d'aider financièrement la recherche, la formation et le perfectionnement de chercheurs en santé.
• HANS - The Health Action Network Society - We have accumulated one of the most comprehensive collections of independent alternative health information in Canada, a must when considering widening your own treatment options.
• Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention - pollution prevention and environmental health information for healthcare providers. Best management practises, regulatory information, alternatives, ecotechnologies and government resources.
• Healthnet Canada
• Health Council of Canada
  
• It's Your Health - IYH is a Health Canada publication which provides reliable information on a range of health-related topics under the following headings: diseases, environment, food, lifestyles, medical and products. IYH articles are written in easy-to-understand language, in French and English. The key information on each topic is presented on two pages, with references provided for in depth follow up. These articles are available in PDF format on our website. New IYH articles are regularly being posted to this website. If you would like to be included in a broadcast email system to be alerted when these new articles become available, there is a place on the site to enter your email address.
• National Forum on Health
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Begun as a one-room Laboratory of Hygiene in 1887, the National Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost biomedical research centers, and the Federal focal point for biomedical research in the U.S.
• National Library of Medicine: PubMed - NLM's experimental search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases
• New Brunswick Department of Health and Wellness - A site featuring up-to-date information about rehabilitation services in New Brunswick; including information about audiologists and S-LPs.
• Persons with Disabilities Online - Persons with Disabilities Online is a site where persons with disabilities, their family members, caregivers and service providers can access a full range of information on disability-related programs and services in Canada.
• Public Health Agency of Canada - What You Need to Know About Pandemic Influenza
  
• Startlocal Australia - Resources for parents and teachers in special education
• Statistics Canada - Statistique Canada
  

Brain Injury Resources

• Brain Injury Association of Canada - Our mandate is to improve the quality of life for all Canadians affected by acquired brain injury and promote it’s prevention. As well, BIAC is dedicated to facilitate post-trauma research, education and advocacy in partnership with national, provincial/territorial and regional associations and other stakeholders.
• Centre for Neuro Skills
• Centre for Disease Control - National Centre for Injury Prevention and Control (United States), Traumatic Brain Injury
  
• Protect Your Head