Essential Health Links: Fulltext E-Newsletters, Reviews and Factsheets

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Health and Family Planning Publications (USAID): Recent Bureau for Africa Publications
HealthLink Bulletin
HealthNet News: Publications
Medic8.com
SciDevNet
Source: Newsletters and Journals Database
WHOLIS
World Health Organization: Health Topics A to Z
World Health Organization Information Office: Fact Sheets

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Health and Family Planning Publications (USAID): Recent Bureau for Africa Publications  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This is an extensive list of full-text articles on child survival, health sector reform, family planning and reproductive health and emerging health threats and crisis response. http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/publications/health.html

HealthLink Bulletin  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Healthlink Bulletin is a free, weekly electronic newsletter on health systems, development and policy in Southern Africa. The content includes research, publications, conferences, events, and news. The link listed below is the subscription page of this e-bulletin. It is sponsored by Health Systems Trust, an independent, South African non-government organization. http://www.hst.org.za/generic/33

HealthNet News: Publications  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
HealthNet News Publications contain recent, relevant, and reliable health information taken from leading peer-reviewed medical journals and international health organizations. Newsletters are free-of-charge and are sent out via email. The HNN newsletters address clinical issues, community health, HIV/AIDS, and nursing. Many developing country health care practitioners, researchers, librarians, and others use HealthNet News as a convenient source of continuing medical information. Due to contractual obligations with journal publishers, permission to receive HealthNet News will only be granted to developing country residents. 'HealthNet News' is compiled by SatelLife, a non-profit organization based in Boston, USA. http://healthnet.org/publications.php

Medic8.com
Medic8 is mainly targeted to U.K. health professionals but it provides useful lists of online medical journals, textbooks, and medical dictionaries. http://www.medic8.com

SciDevNet  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (Chinese, French, Spanish)
The site is devoted to reporting on aspects of modern science and technology that are relevant to sustainable development. This site includes news, features, editorials, book reviews and links to related organizations. It contains 'regional gateway' pages for Latin America, Middle East, South and East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and a 'What's New' section in English, French, Spanish and Chinese. http://www.scidev.net/

Source: Newsletters and Journals Database  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This database contains links to over 150 'free or low cost' newsletters and journals that are relevant to health in developing and transitional databases. Many can be accessed electronically from the database. Besides an alphabetical listing, the titles can be accessed by keyword, country, region, publisher or subject. It is maintained by the International Information Support Centre, Source, UK. http://asksource.ids.ac.uk/serials/browseregion.htm

WHOLIS  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French, Spanish)
WHOLIS is the WHO Library's database. The site contains numerous WHO full-text articles and technical documents from 1985 to date. Access is by keyword, author, title, series, publication or series search. The site is available in English, French and Spanish.http://www.who.int/library/databases/en/

World Health Organization: Health Topics A to Z  (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
The site contains A to Z listing of all full-text health topics ranging, from specific clinical topics to preventive and environmental medicine. It includes a key word search index and is available in English, French and Spanish. http://www.who.int/topics/en/

World Health Organization Information Office: Fact Sheets  (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French)
The site contains full-text fact sheets from the WHO. The articles feature primary care, infectious diseases and environmental and public health issues in developing countries. The site is available in English and French. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/en/

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Updated: 07 January 2008