Wellness and preventive care

• Consumer health
• Research a disease
• Research drugs and medications

Online resources

Consumer Health Complete™ is the most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content available today. It provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. You can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles, online tutorial

Information on health and medicine, food and nutrition, childcare, and sports medicine from consumer health publications and magazines. To learn more, check out the

Abstracts and selective full-text articles from scholarly nursing and medical journals.

Websites

Easy to use information covering many medical topics, from allergies to weight loss. Contains local information

A comprehensive, nationwide health promotion and disease prevention agenda. Healthy People 2010 contains 467 objectives designed to serve as a road map for improving the health of all people in the United States during the first decade of the 21st century.

The home of the Human Services Directory, a comprehensive listing of human services providers in Lycoming County. Serves as an Internet portal for health information.

Web visitors can quickly and conveniently access current health statistics, request a copy of a birth certificate, browse through the Department’s catalog of publications, locate the nearest local health department, and learn the latest information on public health issues.

Vaccinations for children, recommended immunization schedules, international travel immunizations, and state immunization requirements.