Consumer Health Information: Healthy Lifestyle

Why should you vaccinate your baby? Are they safe and effective?

Immunization and Vaccines

Who should get the chickenpox vaccination and how safe is it really?

What is Hepatitis B and who should get it?

This site looks at whether or not your child should get the flu shot for the upcoming year.

The MMR vaccine protects children against measles, mumps, and rubella. These are dangerous, even deadly diseases. Before the vaccine was approved in 1963, almost everyone got measles by the age of 18.

Meningococcal diseases are caused by a germ (a kind of bacteria) called meningococcus. This germ can cause two serious diseases.

There are two kinds of vaccine to protect your children from pneumococcal infections:

Rotavirus is the most common cause of serious diarrhea in babies and young children. It usually affects children between the ages of 6 months and 2 years. Without vaccine, almost all children will have at least one episode of rotavirus diarrhea before they turn 5 years old.

Rubella, commonly known as German measles, is an infection that affects the skin and lymph nodes. It is caused by a virus. Rubella is serious in pregnant women because of the effect it can have on an unborn child.

Vaccination is the best way to protect your child against many dangerous diseases.

Some common questions parents and caregivers have about vaccines.

The fact vs fiction breakdown on vaccinations.

Risks and responsibilities of parents who decide to not vaccinate their children

NIMH provides resources for suicide prevention including information on signs and symptoms, risk factors, helping someone in emotional pain, treatment and therapies

Call the toll-free National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The service is available to everyone. The deaf and hard of hearing can contact the Lifeline via TTY at 1-800-799-4889. All calls are confidential.

The Nevada Coalition for Suicide Prevention (NCSP) is a statewide coalition dedicated to suicide prevention efforts and made possible through our members in the mental and physical health professions, business community, survivors, advocates, and other supporters.

Designed to provide healthy living tips, this article provided by MedicineNet.com addresses healthy dieting, physical activity and exercise, mental health, and other topics that affect healthy living.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) specifies an approach to improve eating habits by introducing three R's: reflect, replace, and reinforce.

Whether a person has a healthy body weight or not is measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI) which compares a person's weight with his or her height. A high BMI indicates high body fat and a low BMI indicates low body fat. This site provides instructions on how to assess your weight.

Regular exercise is an important part of any healthy lifestyle. This article by Mayo Clinic provides recommendations for exercise guidelines to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

This article provides tips and facts about physical activity and exercise to properly and correctly lead a healthy lifestyle.

How to create balanced meals for the whole family

Links to more information on general nutrition and health information.

Resources to make you smart about your nutrition.

Healthy ways to manage your weight.

Access to food composition databases and search tools.

MentalHealth.gov provides one-stop access to U.S. government mental health and mental health problems information.

If you or someone you know has a mental health problem, there are ways to get help. Use these resources to find help for you, a friend, or a family member.

Mental Health America is a leader in mental health support, recovery and advocacy.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the largest scientific organization in the world dedicated to research focused on the understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of mental health.

NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

Mental health information for teens.

Mental illnesses in parents represent a risk for children in the family. Get more information at this website.

Mental health greatly and directly affects a person's lifestyle, so proper upkeep of our mental health is key to healthy living. Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being, and this site, provided by MentalHealth.gov, addresses problems that may arise concerning our mental health.

Mental Health America (MHA) provides 31 useful recommendations to help improve a person's mental health, such as caffeine consumption, eating a couple pieces of dark chocolate, and laughing.