This resource provides more than 700 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
• 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
• Databases and Statistics
• Diagnosis and Management
• Dictionaries and Glossaries
• Email Lists
• Gateways
• Organizations
• Prevention and Control
• Nutrition
• Diet and Chronic Disease
• Food Security
• General Nutrition
• Micronutrients
• Mother and Child
• Severe Acute Malnutrition and Emergencies
• Patient-Education
• General Patient Education and Search Engines
• Infectious Diseases
• Reproductive Health
• Public Health
• Databases, Statistics, Dictionaries and Glossaries
• Disease Prevention and Control
• Epidemiology
• Fulltext Journals and Newsletters
• Health Education
• Health Systems
• Reproductive Health
• Databases, Statistics, Dictionaries and Glossaries
• Diagnosis, Management and Prevention
• Email Lists
• Family Planning
• Fulltext E-Journals and E-Newsletters
• Gateways
• Gynecology
• Organizations
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases
• Disease Outbreaks and Surveillance
• Email Lists
• Fulltext E-Journals, E-Books and E-Newsletters
• Gateways
• Infectious Diseases - Bacterial and Mycotic
• Infectious Diseases, General
• Infectious Diseases, Parasitic
• Infectious Diseases, Viral
• Malaria
• Organizations
• Tuberculosis