This resource provides more than 750 useful websites for health professionals, medical library communities, publishers, and NGOs in developing and emerging countries.

Users should note that the compilers do not have sufficient resources to evaluate the scientific accuracy of each website that is included in Essential Health Links. See Criteria for selection and evaluation.

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Essential Health Links is organized into three sections:

A. General Health Resources
B. Library and Publishing Support
C. Specific Health Resources

• Bibliographic Databases, Abstracts and Trials Databases
• Conferences
• Dictionaries and Glossaries
• Disease Classifications
• Email Lists
• Evidence Based Medicine
• Fulltext E-Books
• Fulltext E-Journals
• Fulltext E-Newsletters, Reviews and Fact Sheets
• Health News
• Health Organizations
• Health Research Resources
• Health Statistics
• Image Collections
• Medical Education and Clinical Skills
• Medical Informatics, Telemedicine and E-Health
• Search Engines
• World Health Organization (WHO) sites
• Gateways
• Gateways Africa
• Gateways Asia and Pacific
• Gateways International
• Gateways Latin America
• Gateways Newly Independent States

• Health Information and Library Networks
• Internet Skills for Health Information Users
• Library Support
• Publishing Skills

• Anesthesiology
• Basic Sciences
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Dental Health
• Dermatology
• Diabetes
• Diabetes
• Emergency Medicine and Trauma
• Environmental Health
• Eye Health
• Gastroenterology
• Mental Health and Psychiatry
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Oncology
• Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat)
• Pediatrics
• Pharmacology and Prescribing
• Poisoning and Toxicology
• Primary Care and Health Education
• Radiology and Medical Imaging
• Surgery and Orthopedics
• HIV-AIDS
• HIV-AIDS/Databases and Statistics
• HIV-AIDS/Diagnosis and Management
• HIV-AIDS/Dictionaries and Glossaries
• HIV-AIDS/Email Lists
• HIV-AIDS/Gateways
• HIV-AIDS/Organizations
• HIV-AIDS/Prevention and Control
• Nutrition
• Nutrition/Diet and Chronic Disease
• Nutrition/Food Security
• Nutrition/General Nutrition
• Nutrition/Micronutrients
• Nutrition/Mother and Child
• Nutrition/Severe Acute Malnutrition and Emergencies
• Patient-Education
• Patient Education/General Patient Education and Search Engines
• Patient Education/Infectious Diseases
• Patient Education/Reproductive Health
• Public Health
• Public Health/Databases, Statistics, Dictionaries and Glossaries
• Public Health/Disease Prevention and Control
• Public Health/Epidemiology
• Public Health/Fulltext Journals and Newsletters
• Public Health/Health Education
• Public Health/Health Systems
• Reproductive Health
• Reproductive Health/Databases, Statistics, Dictionaries and Glossaries
• Reproductive Health/Diagnosis, Management and Prevention
• Reproductive Health/Email Lists
• Reproductive Health/Family Planning
• Reproductive Health/Fulltext E-Journals and E-Newsletters
• Reproductive Health/Gateways
• Reproductive Health/Gynecology
• Reproductive Health/Organizations
• Reproductive Health/Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Disease Outbreaks and Surveillance
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Email Lists
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Fulltext E-Journals, E-Books and E-Newsletters
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Gateways
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Infectious Diseases, Bacterial and Mycotic
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Infectious Diseases, General
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Infectious Diseases, Parasitic
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Infectious Diseases, Viral
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Malaria
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Organizations
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Tuberculosis