AboutKidsHealth.ca provides parents, children, and first-tier health care providers with free, evidence-based information about everyday health and complex medical conditions.
What you will find on our site
- Resource Centres provide answers for families of children with complex conditions like diabetes, brain tumours, or juvenile idiopathic arthritis, as well as common life events like pregnancy. These illustrated, animated, and interactive online resources not only provide parents with information about a particular condition, its treatment and consequences, but show them how to provide care for their children in the home, how to cope with diagnosis and treatment, and what to expect in the future.
- Health A-Z is an encyclopedia of answers for families with concerns about everyday health issues such as immunization, sun exposure, nutrition, or success in school, with over 500 articles.
- Just for Kids provides age-appropriate games, animations, and downloadable materials for kids, all teaching about body systems, everyday healthy practices, concerns such as puberty or head lice, and complex disease management.
- How the Body Works teaches the anatomy and physiology of major organ systems using animated, interactive medical illustrations.
- Our News section features current news about child health, safety, and education, and columns from our experts.
How we create our content
The information and articles on AboutKidsHealth.ca are based on current medical evidence. They have been developed by our writers, editors, illustrators, and designers in close collaboration with health care professionals from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the University of Toronto, and other centres. The content goes through several stages of review by members of our Editorial Review Board.
We wish to thank the Hospital Library at The Hospital for Sick Children for providing many clinical photos from their Teaching Slides Collection.
A note on language
To keep our sentences simple, we use either “he” or “she” and “his” or “her” on each page of our site. In your head, please change what is written to the correct form for your child.
Our translation process
The entire AboutKidsHealth.ca site is now available in English, French, and Chinese, with over 200 articles also available in Spanish, Arabic, Urdu and Tamil, and over 50 articles in Portuguese and Punjabi. Families from around the world can now access information about children’s health in their own language.
Our translators have nearly 20 years’ experience providing translation, revision, and audio narration in both Canada’s official languages and more than 50 other major international languages. Each page goes through a rigorous process of translation, revision, medical review, and quality control.
Health on Net
AboutKidsHealth is proud to have been certified by the Health on the Net (HON) Foundation. The Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct (HONcode) for medical and health Web sites addresses one of the Internet's main health care issues: the reliability and credibility of health information. The HON foundation has elaborated the Code of Conduct to help standardize the reliability of medical and health information available on the World Wide Web. HONcode certification indicates that HON has thoroughly evaluated a website according to the HONcode guidelines.
Disclaimer
We hope you find the information on this site useful. Please be aware that the content on this site is meant for educational purposes only, and should only be used as a guide. Every child's situation is unique. If you have specific questions about your own child's care, please speak to your child's doctor. Please refer to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for further information about the policies of this site.