American Indian Health Information Resources National Network of

American Indian Health Information Resources National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central Region February 6, 2013 Karen Vargas Outreach and Evaluation Coordinator

Agenda General Health Information Specific Health Issues Herbal Information

For Discussion What makes something “American Indian Health Information? ”

Website Evaluation Guidelines Accuracy Authority Bias Currency Coverage

Comparison Guidelines Reading level Easy to look at (white space, pictures) Culturally appropriate Respectful Images Language Examples

General Health Information Three Rivers Health Center, Cherokee Nation, Muskogee, OK Photograph by Karen Vargas

American Indian Health http: //americanindianhealth. nlm. nih. gov/

Medline. Plus Native-American Health http: //medlineplus. gov/nativeamericanhealth

Indian Health Service http: //www. ihs. gov/

National Indian Health Board http: //nihb. org

National Council of Urban Indian Health http: //www. ncuih. org/

National Congress of American Indians http: //www. ncai. org/

Research on Pub. Med “Indians, North American"[Me. SH] CAM subset (“or”) Native American traditional medicine traditional indigenous traditional healer herbal medicine medicinal plants http: //pubmed. gov

Native Health Database University of New Mexico http: //hsc. unm. edu/community/cnah/nhd. shtml

Specific Health Topics

American Indian Health – Health Topics http: //americanindianhealth. nlm. nih. gov/topics. html

Cancer Native American Cancer Research Native American Education for Survivors http: //natamcancer. org/naces. html

HIV/AIDS National Native American AIDS Prevention Center http: //www. nnaapc. org/

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Substance Abuse/Mental Health Native American Center for Excellence http: //nace. samhsa. gov/

Children Indian County Child Trauma Center http: //www. icctc. org/

Teens WE R NATIVE http: //www. wernative. org/

Aging National Indian Council on Aging http: //nicoa. org/

Herbal Information

University of Michigan Native American Ethnobotany http: //herb. umd. umich. edu/

University of Washington Medicinal Herb Garden http: //nnlm. gov/pnr/uwmhg/

Dietary Supplement Label Database http: //www. dsld. nlm. nih. gov/dsld/

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - About Herbs http: //www. mskcc. org/aboutherbs

Thank You! Questions? Suggestions? Karen Vargas karen. vargas@exch. library. tmc. edu 800 -338 -7657 Developed by NN/LM SCR staff. This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. HHSN-276 -2011 -00007 -C with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.