Health or health services

Health behavior refers to individual lifestyle and behavior aimed at enhancing and maintaining good physical and mental health. Health care delivery refers to practices, policies, or referral processes that contribute to making mental and/or medical health care personnel, services, or facilities available to persons in need of such care. Health care utilization refers to processes inovlved in or factors affecting useage of professional or nonprofessional health services or programs. Health education refers to instruction or pograms in school institutional, or community settings which present material about factors affecting health behavior and attitudes.

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Services and Programs

• Tennessee Disability Pathfinder - An internet community and statewide helpline
  Phone, web, and print resources in English and Spanish to connect the Tennessee disability community with service providers. Referral services, free of cost, are provided to persons with disabilities, family members, service providers, and advocates.

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Printable Resources and Materials

• When a Child is Hospitalized Tip Sheet
  

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Links and Resources

• KidsHealth
  KidsHealth is the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence.
• New Health and Wellness Library Online
  The Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt has a new online health and wellness library, which features articles written especially for parents, teens, and children. Each area has illustrations, interactive tools, and videos about physical conditions and emotional issues from before birth through the teen years.
• The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
  The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), a 501(c)3 organization, is a unique federation of voluntary health organizations dedicated to helping people with rare "orphan" diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them. NORD is committed to the identification, treatment, and cure of rare disorders through programs of education, advocacy, research, and service.

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StudyFinder - Participate in a study related to Health or health services

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center researchers need subjects to complete the studies listed below.

• TRIAD Running Club for teens with ASD: an opportunity for adult-facilitated peer interactions

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Video, Podcast and Images

• SafeCare: Preventing Child Maltreatment—An Evolution from Early Exploration to International Implementation
  

  Presentation on 5-17-2012

  Special Lecture

  John Lutzker, Ph.D., director of the Center for Healthy Development at George State University.

• Large-Scale, Administrative Databases: What They Can Tell Us About Health in Down Syndrome
  Video from the Developmental Disabilities Grand Rounds from October 6, 2010.

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In the News

• ‘Toolkit’ makes medical procedures less stressful for children with autism
• Research News @ Vanderbilt: Tennessee Women's Health Report Card finds much work to be done
• The Tennessean Blogs: Much more needs to be done to augment Title V achievements

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