Public Health: Health Information Websites

Cancer.gov is the central website for the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The website offers free, credible, and comprehensive information about cancer prevention and screening, diagnosis and treatment, research across the cancer spectrum, clinical trials, and news.

Working at the community level promotes healthy living, helps prevent chronic diseases and brings the greatest health benefits to the greatest number of people in need. It also helps to reduce health gaps caused by differences in race and ethnicity, location, social status, income, and other factors that can affect health.

According to its mission statement the CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

Health.gov is the home of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) and an essential resource for health information from the US government.

HRSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary federal agency for improving health care to people who are geographically isolated, economically or medically vulnerable. HRSA also oversees organ, bone marrow and cord blood donation.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is one of the largest biomedical library. The NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year. It also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology. In addition, the Library coordinates a National Network of Libraries of Medicine that promotes and provides access to health information in communities across the United States.