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Bayside Family Practice Health Library
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Bayside Family Practice Health Library |
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A very important part of Bayside’s mission is to inform you about health issues. Here in the Library, we try to give you good information that we have written ourselves, and to direct you to sites that we think are reliable.
Here are the sections of our library:
(more to come soon)
1. General Sources for Medical Information
CDC's Diseases & Conditions Page
This is the Center for Disease Control's page for patients, with an extensive library of medical information.
Bay Area Travel Medicine
This is Bayside's own Travel Medicine website, with resources and links to help you with all of your international travel medical care needs.
UpToDate for Patients
Physicians at major academic medical centers worldwide rely on UpToDate's complete and current medical information to answer their clinical questions.
Now patients have access to UpToDate, to learn more about a medical condition, better understand management and treatment options, and have a better dialogue with health care providers.
Hill Physicians Health Library
With more than 5,000 health and medication topics, Hill Physicians Health Library offers an extensive resource for helping to manage your health – from home treatments for common ailments to help with making medical decisions.
2. Selected Health Topics
a. BEHAVIOR AND MENTAL HEALTH
Depression Screen (PHQ-9), English in Spanish
This is a 9-question simple screening tool for depression, for adults over age 18.
b. NUTRITION
ChooseMyPlate.gov
This is the new website filled with useful advice and recommendations on food groups, and dietary guidelines, with extensive resources and tips about healthy nutrition. From the USDA's recent press release:
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2011 – First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today unveiled the federal government’s new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices. MyPlate is a new generation icon with the intent to prompt consumers to think about building a healthy plate at meal times and to seek more information to help them do that by going to www.ChooseMyPlate.gov. The new MyPlate icon emphasizes the fruit, vegetable, grains, protein and dairy food groups.
"Let's Eat for the Health of It" brochure
This is the brochure from ChooseMyPlate.gov, with advice and tips on building a healthy plate; cutting back on foods high in fats, sugars and salt; eating the right amount of calories; and being physically active.
Ten Tips Nutrition Education Series
Also from ChooseMyPlate.gov. Check out the ten tips for each of many nutritional topics, including "Healthy eating for vegetarians"; "Kid-friendly veges and fruits"; "Eating more whole grains"; and many others.
c. ILLNESSES AND COMMON CONDITIONS
Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure
Bayside's patient handout -- an overview of high blood pressure
Ways to Lower Your Blood Pressure
Bayside's patient handout describing things you can do to help you lower your blood pressure
CDC's Blood Pressure page
This is the Center for Disease Control's website section on blood pressure, with extensive resources and information for both patients and clinicians.
High Blood Pressure in Adults
This is UpToDate's overview on high blood pressure in adults.
High Blood Pressure, Diet, and Weight
This is UpToDate's chapter for patients, discussing high blood pressure and the effect of dietary changes, weight loss and exercise.
