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Symptom Scenes

"Symptom Scenes is an arcade game featuring a cast of cute characters suffering from Meningitis or Septicaemia. It's a race against time to recognize the symptoms and save as many as you can!

Game genre:
Action/Adventure
Educational
Entertainment
Puzzle

Health topic:
Brain
Emergency Response
Infectious Disease
Public Health

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Download
Free
Online

Target Population:
Adults
Children
General Audience
Health Care Professionals
Young Children

tagthenet categories:
age
App
arcade
education
Emergency
game
Hospital
Learning
Life
Meningitis
nbsp
race
Response
Scenes
Septicaemia
Symptom
Symptoms
time

Social Tags:
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Medical emergencies
Meningitis
Symptom
Technology
XML

Game platform:
Handheld Device
Multi-Platform


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Pain Tricks

"A colourful collection of tricks to make medical procedures less scary and sore. For kids and grown ups too!

 

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Cancer
Cognition
Injuries and Rehabilitation
Pain
Public Health
Stress and Coping

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Download
Free
Online

tagthenet categories:
App
Children
collection
course
disease
Distraction
Doctor
game
health
Help
Info
injection
nbsp
Pain
Parents
procedure
time
Touch
Tricks

Social Tags:
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Medicine
Pain
Pain management
Technology

Target Population:
Children
General Audience
Health Care Professionals

Game platform:
Handheld Device
Multi-Platform


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SuperBetter

"SuperBetter helps you achieve your health goals — or recover from an illness or injury — by increasing your personal resilience.

Game genre:
Educational
Entertainment

Health topic:
Behavior and Personality
Health Care and Medicine
Social Issues and Skills
Stress and Coping

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

tagthenet categories:
ability
face
game
health
illness
injury
nbsp
resilience
science
SuperBetter
tool

Social Tags:
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Motivation
National security
Optimism
Positive psychology
Psychological resilience
Resilience
Technology

Target Population:
General Audience

Game platform:
Internet


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Malaria

"The Mosquito and Parasite educational games and related reading, are based on the 1902 and 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Infectious Disease

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

Social Tags:
Apicomplexa
DDT
Malaria
Mosquito
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Technology

tagthenet categories:
blood
control
guide
Malaria
mission
Mosquito
Nobel
Parasite
Prize
reading

Target Population:
General Audience

URL:
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/malaria/index.html

Game platform:
Internet


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Tuberculosis - Experiments & Discoveries

"Robert Koch proved definitively that the dreaded disease tuberculosis is caused by specific bacteria. How did he do it?

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Health Care and Medicine

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

Social Tags:
Bacteria
CDATA
Infectious disease
Microbiology
Robert Koch
Staining
Technology
Tuberculosis

tagthenet categories:
Discoveries
disease
game
glass
nbsp
slide
Staining
technique
today
Tuberculosis

Target Population:
General Audience

Game platform:
Internet

Person:
Robert Koch


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Whyville

"Whyville was launched in 1999 as a virtual city for engaging young people in constructive educational activities while promoting socially responsible behavior.

Game genre:
Educational
Entertainment

Health topic:
Social Issues and Skills

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

tagthenet categories:
angular
art
behavior
city
href
interact
math
momentum
nbsp
range
science
self
target
title
WhyPox
Whyville
WhyWellness

Social Tags:
Angular momentum
Avatar: The Last Airbender
CDATA
Club Penguin
Document
Numedeon
Simulation
Technology
Virtual world
Whyville
XML

Game platform:
Internet

Target Population:
Pre-Teens
Teens
Young Adults


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Mission Nutrition

"Are you up to this nutrition challenge? Explore our kitchen and find out. You can open the fridge, snoop in the cabinet, and even play the message on the answering machine."

Game genre:
Educational
Entertainment

Health topic:
Food and Nutrition

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

tagthenet categories:
cabinet
challenge
Explore
fridge
kitchen
machine
message
mission
Nutrition
snoop

Social Tags:
CDATA
Healthy diet
Nutrition
Technology
XML

Target Population:
Children
Teens

URL:
http://kidshealth.org/kid/closet/games/game_nutrition.html#cat122

Game platform:
Internet


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Earn The Stars

Earn the Stars is a merit-based tool for educating, motivating, recognizing and rewarding children to make good choices about nutrition and participating in physical activities.

Game genre:
Educational
Fitness

Health topic:
Exercise and Fitness
Food and Nutrition

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online
Register

Social Tags:
Academia
CDATA
Document
Education
Facebook
Nature
Nutrition
Technology
World Wide Web
XML

Target Population:
Children
Teens
Young Adults

Game platform:
Handheld Device
Internet


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It’s a Skin Cell’s Life

"Play "It's a Skin Cell's Life®" with your child to see how the interactive game lets kids learn how to practice good skin care virtually, or risk the consequences of pimples, greasy hair, a poison ivy rash and sunburn."

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Skin Care

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

Organization:
American Academy

Social Tags:
American Academy of Dermatology
Anatomy
Biology
CDATA
Medicine
Poison ivy
Rash
Skin
Sunburn
Symptoms
Technology
Ultraviolet

Target Population:
Children
Young Children

URL:
http://kidshealth.aad.org/AAD_SkinCell.php

Game platform:
Internet


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Blood Type Game

"The object of the game is to score as many points as possible by matching the appropriate blood type of a donor to the blood type of a recipient. During each round, a total of 10 recipients will walk onto the screen. You then click on the donor you think is a match."

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Health Care and Medicine

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

Target Population:
Adults
Teens
Young Adults

Social Tags:
American Red Cross
Anatomy
Biology
Blood
Blood type
CDATA
Genetics
Hematology
Medicine
Technology
Transfusion medicine

Organization:
American Red Cross

URL:
http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/donor-zone/games/blood-type

Game platform:
Internet


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