Guide to Health, Physical 

Education and Recreation Research

Internet Resources

Associations

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.

AAHPERD is comprised of six national associations including the American Association for Active Lifestyles & Fitness (AAALF); American Association for Health Education (AAHE); American Association for Leisure & Recreation (AALR); National Association for Girls & Women in Sport (NAGWS); National Association for Sport & Physical Education (NASPE); and the National Dance Association (NDA). Six district associations and a research consortium complete the alliance whose mission is to support healthy lifestyles through high quality programs.

NATA-National Athletic Trainers' Association

The NATA is the professional certification organization for athletic trainers whose mission is to enhance the quality of health care for athletes and promote the athletic training profession through education, and research.

NCAA Online
The official Web site of the National Collegiate Athletic Association includes information on NCAA sports, championships, news, NCAA publications, education/outreach, rules and eligibility for collegiate sports in the United States.

Women's Sports Foundation

An organization focusing on on physical activity for girls and women and issues related to women's sports and physical activities.

Athletics

Achieving Athletic Equity - Q&A
Excellent question-and-answer session on High School Athletics. Discussion is tailored for Wisconsin but with very few exceptions is helpful for other states as well.

Making It Equal
Broad-based discussion written for Coaching Management Magazine covers the fundamentals of Title IX and its application to athletics. Specific emphasis of the article on equal access to facilities.

National Women's Law Center Equity Checklist
The NWLC has developed an athletic equity questionnaire that can be downloaded as a .PDF file or read from the site. A fairly comprehensive analysis of the issues of equity in athletics. Makes good use of the background of some top staff attorneys cooperating at the National Women's Law Center.  

Athletic Training

The American College of Sports Medicine
Information on certification, ACSM publications, research grants and scholarships, career opportunities and membership benefits.

Physician and Sportsmedicine Online
Includes full text of the printed journal's cover story and archive of back issues. Articles on exercise, nutrition, injury prevention, personal fitness, and rehabilitation. Names, locations, and services of sports medicine clinics across the US.  Directory of sports medicine fellowships. Calendar of health related meetings, symposia, and courses.

Education

ERIC-Education Resources Information Center

ERIC, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. ERIC  is now a centralized bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations dating to 1966. Effective October 1, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free.

OAIster.

A project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services, originally funded through a Mellon grant whose goal is to create a collection of free online easily searchable academically-oriented digital resources.

Test Reviews Online

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements provides an online index to general information about over 400 tests and information for finding test reviews. Tests reviewed in Mental Measurements Yearbook are available for purchase. (Free reviews available in the print version of Mental Measurements Yearbook located in Reference BF431.A11 B8m).

Health Promotion

Child Welfare Information Gateway
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides access to print and electronic publications, websites and online databases covering a wide range of topics including child welfare, child abuse, neglect, adoption, search and reunion and much more.

Health, Nutrition, and P. E. Resources and Lesson Plans  
A collection of Web sites pertaining to health, nutrition, and physical education. Features resources for grades K-12, curriculum enrichment materials, lesson plans, and other activities. Includes such topics as germs, aging, genes and heredity, the spinal cord, first aid, fruits and vegetables, cholesterol, aerobics, and fitness. Links to National Standards for Health Education and Physical Education.

National Children's Study

South Dakota State University has a five year contract with the National Children's Study, the largest research study of the environment's effects on children's health and development. The study will involve over 100,000 children nationwide from before birth until age 21. Federal agency partners include the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

PubMed (PMC)-full text

PubMed (Entrez)-bibliographic

Pfizer Guides to Careers in Healthcare

Full-text career guides to Nursing, Pharmacy, Physicians and Public Health are available for viewing or download.

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Public Recreation

National Park Service

South Dakota Game Fish & Parks

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