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A Su Salud: Health Information in Spanish (Spanish)
The site contains links to health information in Spanish, for
health professionals and the general public. The links are
organized into commercial, governmental and non-profit
organization sections. The site is maintained by the Library,
South Texas Community College, U.S.
http://library.southtexascollege.edu/research/asusalud.html
Biblioteca Multimedia (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese only)
This ‘multimedia library’ contains free access to
power point presentations, videos, information material in
various formats in numerous health-related subject areas and
contains a keyword search engine. The site is sponsored by
FIOCRUZ, a Brazilian based research institute.
http://www.ensp.fiocruz.br/biblioteca/home/
* BIREME (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)
The Latin American and Caribbean Center for Information (or
BIREME as it is widely known from its previous name
'Biblioteca Regional de Medicina') is the regional centre for
technical co-operation in health sciences information. It
coordinates a network of libraries, documentation and
information centres on health-related technical and
scientific information. It is developing a virtual library
that includes full-text electronic journals from the region
(SCIELO) and a database of abstracts and citations of Latin
American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences
(LILACS). The information is available in English, Spanish
and Portuguese.
http://www3.bireme.br/bvs/bireme/I/homepage.htm
BIREME: Virtual Health Library (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)
This site is the Virtual Health Library of BIREME. The
'health information locator' section contains links to
regional and country websites by broad subject, specialties
and institutions and keyword search access. It also includes
a health terminology database and links to SCIELO, a regional
scientific e-journal library. The information is available in
English, Spanish and Portuguese.
http://www.virtualhealthlibrary.org/php/index.php?lang=en
Caribbean Disaster Information Network (CARDIN) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
CARDIN provides linkages with Caribbean disaster
organizations, to widen the scope of the collection of
disaster related information and to ensure improved access to
such material. This site contains a database of disaster
information in English, French, Spanish and Dutch plus
regional newsletters, contacts and a discussion forum. The
Library of the University of the West Indies at Mona is
responsible for the information collection and database
management.
http://mona.uwi.edu/cardin/virtual_library/searchlibrary.asp
Confederacion Iberoamericana de Medicina Familiar (CIMF) (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Spanish)
CIMF is the regional affiliate of the World Organization of
Family Doctors (WONCA). The content is targeted to family
doctors in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. It contains
information about CIMFactivities and publications and in
Spanish.
http://www.cimfweb.org/
Disasters info Disastres (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Spanish)
The site is a gateway to websites and full-text publications
that relate to disaster management in the Caribbean and Latin
American. The links include regional organizations and
courses in disaster management. The site is available in
English and Spanish and is maintained by the Pan American
Health Organization.
http://www.disaster-info.net/socios_eng.htm
Health Information Locator (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)
BIREME's 'health information locator' is a gateway to
annotated, including language of site, links. The site
contains links to medical specialties, atlases, dictionaries,
encyclopedias, diseases, and public health themes. It
includes a keyword search engine and is available in English,
Spanish and Portuguese. The site contains numerous global
links as well as regional ones highlighting those in Spanish
and Portuguese.
http://lis.bvs.br/xml2html/xmlListT.php?xml[]=http://lis.bvs.br/lis-Regional/I/define.xml&xsl=http://lis.bvs.br/lis-Regional/home.xsl
INFOMED (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Spanish)
The site provides information on healthcare in Cuba including
addresses of hospitals, pharmacies and clinics. It contains
links to a wide range of fulltext Cuban medical journals and
information on upcoming conferences. The site is in Spanish
and includes a search engine and subject directory to health
topics.
http://www.cubasolidarity.net/infomed/www.infomed.sld.cu/indice.html
Informacion de Salud para los Consumidores en Espanol (Spanish)
The site is a gateway that emphasizes Spanish language
consumer health information. The links are organized by broad
subject category and contain brief annotations. The site is
maintained by the Consumer and Patient Health Information
Section, Medical Library Association, U.S. The main target
audience is the Spanish-speaking population of the U.S. but
much of the material may be valuable for Latin America.
http://caphis.mlanet.org/chis/spanish.html
Latin American Network Information Center: Health and Medical Sciences (LANIC) (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)
This gateway contains links to health sites in Latin America.
It is organized by region, country and broad subject
categories. The site includes a keyword search engine and is
available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. It is
maintained by The University of Texas at Austin, U.S.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/health/
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Spanish)
The site contains information about the programs of PAHO, the
45 member WHO regional organization for the Americas. It
includes policy statements, technical reports, country health
profiles, publications, contains numerous full-text documents
and is in English and Spanish.
http://devserver.paho.org/
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