Physical Education, Health, & Fitness Management Courses & Research

ipl2 is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, which means that librarian grad-students examine, vet, and maintain links to web-sites.

An “academic” search engine, RefSeek does not claim to offer more results than Google; instead, it strips any results not related to science, research and academia. It’s a fairly standard web search, only without all the commercial stuff. It claims to be indexing over one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, & newspapers--you will see more .edu and .org sites.

The association of sports medicine, exercise science, and health and fitness professionals is dedicated to helping people worldwide live longer, healthier lives.

Produced by the United Health Foundation. Health statistics can be found by state.

Download and listen to free webinars.

NSSPE homepage, providing information on the association and ideas for use in the classroom.

Provides access to reports, articles, and legislative summaries on health topics.

This independent organization is based at Georgetown University. Its purpose is to educate congressional and federal agencies' staff on health issues.

The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) is an international nonprofit educational association founded in 1978. The association now serves nearly 30,000 members in 52 countries. They develop and present the most advanced information regarding strength training and conditioning practices, injury prevention, and research findings.

Official source for U.S. vital statistics. Includes births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths.

Provides current health data on all 50 states. Topics include health status, health coverage, Medicaid, health costs, minority health, and women's health.

This is a report prepared by the Health Care Marketplace Project. It highlights trends in the health care market as they affect the poor and the elderly. It also analyzes proposals that involve the private health care system.

SHAPE America's new guidance document gives teachers, administrators, curriculum specialists, teacher educators and parents a hands-on tool for improving the strength and quality of physical education across the nation.