Healthy Santa Cruz County - pregnancy

Local Links

• Local Help & Information: Pregnancy / Childbirth Support Groups
  The library's Community Information Database can help you find organizations in Santa Cruz County which offer programs, help, or further information about pregnancy or childbirth support groups. Use this link to search the CID.
  Browse related subjects: childbirth, local information, pregnancy, support, women's health
• Local Help & Information: Pregnancy Testing
  The library's Community Information Database can help you find organizations in Santa Cruz County which offer programs, help, or further information about pregnancy testing. Use this link to search the CID.
  Browse related subjects: childbirth, local information, pregnancy, women's health

Library Resources

• Find Books: Women's Health
  Santa Cruz Public Libraries have many informative and up-to-date books about women's health issues. Click here to search the library catalog.
  Browse related subjects: books, books / videos, breast cancer, domestic violence, exercise, fitness, healthy lifestyle, pregnancy, sexual assault, women's health

Recommended Websites

• Best of the Web - Women's Health
  The Best of the Web is a comprehensive directory that categorizes content-rich, well designed websites. The Women's Health category includes links to health issues by region, as well as providing links to support groups, blogs, a women's health hot-line, and numerous links to sites that provide information about specific issues surrounding women's health.
  Browse related subjects: breast cancer, cancer, childbirth, diet, eating disorders, menopause, pregnancy, self-help, women's health
• HealthyWomen.org
  Special features: Health topics A-Z; interactive health toolkit; e-newsletters; hundreds of reproducible fact sheets and brochures; Spanish available. From: National Women's Health Resource Center.
  Browse related subjects: breast cancer, childbirth, domestic violence, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, heart disease, lab tests, mental health, pregnancy, quit smoking, recommended website, research, sexual assault, women's health
• Home-Use Tests
  Up-to-date information about a wide variety of in-home tests used to screen for certain diseases or conditions, including pregnancy, hepatitis C, glucose level, vaginal pH, and more. From the U.S Food & Drug Administration.
  Browse related subjects: diagnosis, lab tests, medical tests, pregnancy, product safety, recommended website
• La fuente de información del gobierno federal sobre la salud de la mujer
  Spanish edition of WomensHealth.gov.
  Browse related subjects: breast cancer, cancer, eating disorders, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, heart disease, menopause, non-English, other languages, pregnancy, recommended website, women's health
• National Women's Health Information Center
  Special features: News; reproducible fact sheets; interactive health tools and tutorials; Quick Women's Health Data Online. From: US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health.
  Browse related subjects: breast cancer, cancer, childbirth, diabetes, domestic violence, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, heart disease, medical tests, mental health, osteoporosis, pregnancy, quit smoking, recommended website, women's health
• Pregnancy - MedlinePlus
  Special features: Research; statistics; health tools; Spanish available; extensive links to related topics. From: NLM / NIH.
  Browse related subjects: childbirth, MedlinePlus, parenting, pregnancy, recommended website, women's health

Databases

• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Provides health-related information from more than 700 health/medical journals and hundreds of pamphlets (many with full text), 2,200 magazines, and various reference sources.
• MEDLINE® PubMed
  PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes citations and abstracts from MEDLINE, the world's largest database of clinical medical literature. The database indexes more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. Citations date back to the 1950s. Some citations link out to relevant information outside of Medline, or to the full text of articles. Tutorials are available and highly recommended for inexperienced users.