Physiology: Websites

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The goal of the Nutrition and Physical Activity (NPA) Knowledge Bulletin is to make New Zealand research more accessible, including unpublished and in-progress research and evaluation literature, in order to share best practice, innovations and learnings across the sector.

A Green Prescription is written advice from a health professional (usually your doctor or practice nurse) to be ACTIVE and improve your diet. It’s a support service that helps you to improve your health and feel better at the same time.

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Free to search for official New Zealand statistics

The University of Otago Statistics Library Guide with links to useful resources.

A free web tool that allows you to: create tables from a wide range of large datasets; find a dataset by browsing through themes or searching; customise the table by selecting the variables; change the table layout; view metadata alongside the table; and, download your table in Excel. Phone 0508 525 525 (toll-free within NZ) for Mon-Fri Help Desk support.

This web gateway to information on bones, joints and muscles is provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and is authoritative and up to date.

Muscle Atlas is by Michael Richardson from the University of Washington. An interactive atlas covering upper and lower extremities.

Brainfacts is a website the features all sorts of information about the brain including brain basics, sensing, thinking and behaving, and diseases and disorders.

Digitised Diseases is an open access resource featuring human bones which have been digitised using 3D laser scanning, CT and radiography. Of major interest to many will be high fidelity photo-realistic digital representations of 3D bones that can be viewed, downloaded and manipulated on their computer, tablet or smartphone.