Open Educational Resources (OER) by Subject: Health Science

Health Science

• Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles (Lumen Learning)
• Health Now (Flat World Knowledge/Creative Commons)
• Introduction to Health (Creative Commons)

Medical Terminology

• Understanding Medical Words: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
• Medical Terminology (Skills Commons)
• Public Health and Healthcare System Terminology (OER Commons)
• Interactive Medical Terminology
• Medical Terminology Course (Merlot)

Nutrition

• Human Nutrition (University of Hawai'i/Open Textbook Library)
• Introduction to Digestion and Nutrition (Stanford University)
• An Introduction to Nutrition (OER Commons)
• Nutrition (Sacramento City College/LibreTexts)

• Nutritional Health, Food Production and the Environment (Johns Hopkins University/OER Commons)

  This course gives an understanding of the complex and challenging public health issue of food security by exploring the connections among diet, the current food and food animal production systems, the environment and public health, and considering factors such as economics, population and equity. Includes case studies and guest lecturers from a variety of disciplines and experiences.
• Personal Health (Portland Community College)

  A course with 17 topic modules that cover a broad range of personal and public health health topics. Each topic has a Google Slides presentation, instructor resources, student resources, topic study guides, an in-class activity, discussion questions, and any other additional OER resources available.

• Choosing Good Nutrition (World Health Organization)