Children's Health

Categories

Immunisation

Sites

Adolescent Health

Information from Community Public Health

BabyCentre

UK based site containing articles and interactive tools written by health, pregnancy and parenting experts for new and expectant parents. Also has a New Zealand parents discussion board. Site sponsored by Johnsons.

Barnardos New Zealand

An organisation providing services to children and families throughout New Zealand

Child Health Research Foundation

Children's Health Camps

The camps provide a caring, supportive and healthy environment where primary school children receive training in social skills, peer relationships, and are provided with time out and respite care.

Choice Food for Kids

Australian site which reviews food products to help parents choose healthier food for their children.

Dyslexia: The Gift.

Information for Parents and their Children

Everybody: Parenting

Written for New Zealanders, Everybody provides fact-sheets/ overviews on a variety of health topics. Articles are written by medical writers and reviewed by consumer health organisations and health professionals.

Family Doctor: Children's Health

Written by New Zealand health professionals, Family Doctor contains patient's guides, overviews and links for a wide range of health topics.

Feeding Our Futures

Site dedicated to helping parents and caregivers achieve healthy diets for kids. Has simple, practical and low-cost ideas for getting children to eat well.From Ministry of Health.

FOE : Fight the Obesity Epidemic

Great Ormond Street Hospital

A wide range of factsheets written by staff at the largest children's hospital in Great Britain. Factsheets are grouped under the following headings: tests and procedures, operations, illnesses and diseases and miscellaneous.

Kids health

You'll find three separate areas: for parents, for teens and for kids. You can search the site by entering the medical condition in the search box or browse topics. All of the information on KidsHealth.org has been created by paediatric medical experts. From "The Nemours Foundation", an organisation devoted to children's health in the United States.

Medem: Children's Health

Medem provides useful consumer information on a variety of health conditions and treatments. The information is produced by various American medical societies.

Medem: Smart Parents' Health Source

Medem provides useful consumer information on a variety of health conditions and treatments. The information is produced by various American medical societies.

MEDLINEplus: Asthma in Children

Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health (USA), contains a medical encyclopaedia, dictionaries, news, overviews, information on specific conditions and links to other organisations.

MEDLINEplus: Child Safety

Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health (USA), contains a medical encyclopaedia, dictionaries, news, overviews, information on specific conditions and links to other organisations.

MEDLINEplus: Children's Health

Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health (USA), contains a medical encyclopaedia, dictionaries, news, overviews, information on specific conditions and links to other organisations.

MEDLINEplus: Children's Page

Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health (USA), contains a medical encyclopaedia, dictionaries, news, overviews, information on specific conditions and links to other organisations.

National Burn Centre

Plunket

Plunket provides well child and family health services in New Zealand

Safekids

Safekids is a child safety service of Starship Children's Health which works to reduce the incidence and severity of unintentional injury to children aged 0 - 14 years in New Zealand.

School Health Service Christchurch

Contains information from the Canterbury District Health Board on children's health issues. Also contains a newsletter and other resources including an infectious illness chart.

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