Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Business/Labor Responds to AIDS Programs
http://www.hivatwork.org

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Business Responds to AIDS and Labor Responds to AIDS programs (BRTA/LRTA) help large and small businesses and labor unions meet the challenges of HIV/AIDS in the workplace and the community. Does your workplace handle discrimination, return-to-work, or employee morale issues? Use this Web site as a resource for these and many other questions.
Language- English
(Non-Profit Site)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Oral Health Resources Fact Sheet
Brush Up on Healthy Teeth
http://www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/factsheets/brushup.htm

Every parent knows that a healthy smile is a sign of a happy child, and oral health experts agree that creating those healthy smiles begins in infancy. Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed a set of pediatric oral health tips, Brush Up on Healthy Teeth: Simple Steps for Kids’ Smiles.
Language- English

Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC)
Centro Nacional para la Prevención de Enfermedades Crónicas y Promoción de la Salud
Recursos de Salud Dental
Refresque sus conocimientos sobre dientes sanos
http://www.cdc.gov/spanish/dental/index.htm

Todos los padres saben que una sonrisa saludable indica un niño feliz, y los expertos en salud dental coinciden en que los esfuerzos para lograr esas sonrisas saludables comienzan muy temprano en la infancia. Los especialistas de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) desarrollaron una serie de consejos para la salud dental pediátrica llamada "Refresque sus conocimientos sobre dientes sanos: pasos sencillos para sonrisas infantiles".

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
http://www.hhs.gov
One of the largest federal agencies, the Department of Health and Human Services is the principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans. Comprising 12 operating divisions, HHS' responsibilities include public health, biomedical research, Medicare and Medicaid, welfare, social services, and more.
(Government site)
Language-English

Department of Health and Human Services agency sites:

• Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services - advises the President on health, welfare, and income security plans, policies, and programs of the Federal government. The Secretary administers these functions through the Office of the Secretary and the Department's 11 operating divisions, including a budget of $460 billion and a workforce of 65,000 employees.
  English - http://www.hhs.gov/infoquality/os.html
  
  
• Administration for Children and Families (ACF) - is responsible for some 60 programs which provide services and assistance to needy children and families, administers the new state-federal welfare program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, administers the national child support enforcement system, and the Head Start program, provides funds to assist low-income families in paying for child care, and supports state programs to provide for foster care and adoption assistance.
  English - http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/
  

• Administration on Aging (AOA) - supports a nationwide aging network, providing services to the elderly, especially to enable them to remain independent. AoA supports some 240 million meals for the elderly each year, including home-delivered "meals on wheels," helps provide transportation and at-home services, supports ombudsman services for elderly, and provides policy leadership on aging issues.
  English - http://www.aoa.gov/
  Spanish - http://www.aoa.gov/language/language_espanol.asp
  

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - supports research designed to improve the outcomes and quality of health care, reduce its costs, address patient safety and medical errors, and broaden access to effective services. The research sponsored, conducted, and disseminated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides information that helps people make better decisions about health care.
  English - http://www.ahrq.gov/
  Spanish - http://www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/espanoix.htm
  

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) - works with states and other federal agencies to prevent exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites. The agency conducts public health assessments,
  health studies, surveillance activities, and health education training in communities around waste sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List.
  English - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
  Spanish - http://www.hhs.gov/region10/ocr/noneng/
  

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - provides a system of health surveillance to monitor and prevent outbreak of diseases. With the assistance of states and other partners, CDC guards against international disease transmission, maintains national health statistics and provides for immunization services and supports research into disease and injury prevention.
  English - http://www.cdc.gov/
  Spanish - http://www.cdc.gov/spanish/default.htm
  

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration) administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care to America's aged and indigent populations, about one in every four Americans, including nearly 18 million children and and nursing home coverage for low-income elderly. CMS also administers the new Children's Health Insurance Program through approved state plans that cover more than 2.2 million children..
  English - http://www.medicare.gov/
  Spanish - http://www.medicare.gov/Spanish/Overview.asp
  

• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - assures the safety of foods and cosmetics, and the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals, biological products and medical devices.
  English - http://www.fda.gov/
  Spanish - Evaluation and Research http://www.fda.gov/cder/audiences/iact/iachome.htm#Spanish
  Spanish - Brochures http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/spanlow.html
  

• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) - helps provide health resources for medically underserved populations. HRSA supports a nationwide network of 643 community and migrant health centers, and 144 primary care programs for the homeless and residents of public housing, serving 8.1 million Americans each year. HRSA also works to build the health care workforce and maintains the National Health Service Corps, oversees the nation's organ transplantation system, works to decrease infant mortality and improve child health and provides services to people with AIDS through the Ryan White CARE Act programs.
  English - http://www.hrsa.gov/

  Office of Minority Health (OMH)
  English - http://www.omhrc.gov/
  

• Indian Health Service (IHS) - supports a network of 37 hospitals, 60 health centers, 3 school health centers, 46 health stations and 34 urban Indian health centers to provide services to nearly 1.5 million American Indians and Alaska Natives of 557 federally recognized tribes.
  English - http://www.ihs.gov/
  

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) - with 17 separate institutes, is the world's premier medical research organization, supporting some 35,000 research projects nationwide in diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, arthritis, heart ailments and AIDS.
  English - http://www.nih.gov/
  Spanish - http://salud.nih.gov/
  

• Program Support Center (PSC) - a service-for-fee organization, utilizes a pioneering business enterprise approach to provide government support services throughout HHS as well as other Departments and Federal agencies. Administrative operations, financial management and human resources are solution- and customer-oriented, state-of-the-art and highly responsive to customer needs.
  English - http://www.psc.gov/
  

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - works to improve the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services.
  English - http://www.samhsa.gov/