The Multimedia Technology Health Communication SBIR/STTR Program

Resources for Developing Your Application

• ADA's Nutrition Resources for professionals and the public:
  http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition.html
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System:
  http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
• Books from the National Academy Press:
  http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9939.html
• Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC):
  http://nnlm.gov/mcr/bhic/
• Cancer Mortality Maps & Graphs:
  http://www3.cancer.gov/atlasplus/
• CDCynergy:
  http://www.cdc.gov/healthmarketing/
• Choosing Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Appropriate Research Methods:
  http://otal.umd.edu/charm/
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine on PubMed:
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive/20040831/news/press_releases/cam_pr01.html
• Current Bibliographies in Medicine:
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/resources.html
• Designing the User Interface:
  http://wps.aw.com/aw_shneider_dtui_4
• Expanding the Reach and Impact of Consumer E-Health Tools:
  http://www.health.gov/communication/ehealth/ehealthTools/default.htm
• FirstSearch: search resource for references and databases:
  http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/
• Food Marketing Institute:
  http://www.fmi.org/
• Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making:
  http://www.fimdm.org/decision_sdms.php
• Games for Health:
  http://www.gamesforhealth.org/archives/000211.html
• Handheld Health Care:
  http://search.live.com/results.aspx?srch=105&FORM=AS5&q=handheld+health+care
• Healthy People 2010 Health Communication Focus Area:
  http://www.health.gov/communication/healthypeople/default.htm
• Health Risk Communication Primer: Practical guide for communicating health risks to the public in writing, through meetings, and through the mass media. Includes bibliography:
  http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/primer.html
• How Americans Find and Use Cancer Information: NCI's Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS):
  http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/hints/index.jsp
• Human-Computer Interaction:
  http://hcibib.org/
• Information and Inspiration for Innovative Teaching in K-12 Schools: The George Lucas Education Foundation:
  http://www.edutopia.org/
• Interactive Food and Beverage Marketing:
  http://www.digitalads.org/index.php
• Introduction to Evaluation of Interactive Health Communication Applications:
  http://www.health.gov/scipich/pubs/introIHC.htm
• Links About Web Usability:
  http://usableweb.com/
• Making Health Communication Programs Work (NCI's Pink Book):
  http://www.cancer.gov/pinkbook
• National Agriculture Library:
  http://www.nal.usda.gov/
• National Cancer Institute's Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-94 (12/99):
  http://www.nci.nih.gov/atlas/
• National Center for Health Statistics:
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
• National Cancer Institute: Risk Communication Bibliography:
  http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/total.asp
• National Library of Medicine: Risk Communication bibliography:
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/health_risk_communication.html
• National Restaurant Association:
  http://www.restaurant.org/
• Native American Resources on the Internet:
  http://hanksville.org/NAresources/
• NCI'S Cancer Query Systems (CANQUES) are data retrieval applications that provide access to cancer statistics stored in online databases:
  http://seer.cancer.gov/canques/
• Nutrient Databases:
  http://www.nutribase.com/
• Prevention Communication Research Database (PCRD):
  http://www.health.gov/communication/default.asp
• ResearchWorks, Inc. - an advisory program for individuals and small businesses:
  http://www.researchworks.com/executive_advising.php
• U.S. Census: Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2000 ed.: Section 18. Communications and Information Technology:
  http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies: A list of federal agencies on the Internet:
  http://www.hhs.gov/agencies/
• Usable Information Technology:
  http://www.useit.com/
• Wired for Health and Well-Being: The Emergence of Interactive Health Communication:
  http://www.health.gov/scipich/pubs/finalreport.htm
• Your Guide for Developing Useable and Useful Web Sites:
  http://www.usability.gov/