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Health Unit: Social and Consumer Health Section: Government Agencies Activity: Federal Agencies Name: _________________________________________

Question Agency name and answer to question Goal or mission statement

1. What is the HHS budget for this year?

2. What are the responsibilities of the National Institute of Health?

3. What agency in the NIH family would be responsible for preventing risks of smoking

4. What agency would be concerned with drug addiction?

5. Where would you go to find out more about West Nile Virus?

6. If you had an aging grandparent in need of services, what agency would you contact?

7. What useful agencies are there for parents?

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8. List responsibilities of the CDC?

9. What information on teen issues is available? Name the topics and the sites.

10. What site can assist you in decisions about health insurance?

11. What site can help a person who wants to volunteer for disaster relief?

12. What website will tell you the side effects of an over the counter drug?

13. What website will tell you the side effects of a prescription drug?

14. Where can you go to get information on quitting smoking?

15. What agency can you go to for information on treatment of cancer?