Links to Resources
MDH Resources:
Find data about public health and risk factors that impact public health at Minnesota Public Health Data Access, a web-based data access portal. The portal includes data on birth defects.
Non-MDH Resources:
Attention: Links listed below take you outside the Minnesota Department of Health Website.
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
- American Heart Association
- American Pregnancy Association
- Anencephaly Information
- Care Notebook (A tool you can use to organize information about your child’s chronic health condition from Seattle Children's Hospital)
- CDC National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
- CDC Folic Acid Site
- Becoming Pregnant When You Have Diabetes
- Pregnancy Information Center (Before, During, & After Pregnancy)
- Preventing Infections During Pregnancy
- Congenital Heart Disease: a Public Health Perspective
- Down Syndrome Association of Minnesota
- Emergency and Community Health Outreach (ECHO) — ECHO exists to ensure that people with limited English proficiency receive life-saving health and safety information—in some of the languages they understand best (Spanish, Hmong, Somali, Vietnamese, Lao and Khmer/Cambodian). Watch for Birth Defects Prevention information under Health & Safety Topics—coming in 2007!
- Folic Acid Benefits Regarding Birth Defects Prevention (30-Minute On-Line Training)
- healthymnwomen.org
- Licensed Pediatric Hospice in Minnesota
- March of Dimes (MOD)
- March of Dimes (Spanish Version)
- Minnesota Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (MOFAS)
- National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN)
- National Down Syndrome Society
- Parent to Parent Support (Family matching)-all disorders
- Spina Bifida Association of America
- Support Groups for Chromosomal Conditions
- Support for Neonatal Loss or Abnormal Pregnancy
- Support for Trisomy 18, 13 and Related Disorders
- TOXNET (A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.)
