Essential Health Links: Gateways Latin America


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(Focus on Low-Income Countries) indicates that the site has a specific focus on health information in developing countries.
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A Su Salud: Health Information in Spanish
BIREME
BIREME: Virtual Health Library
Caribbean Disaster Information Network (CARDIN)
Confederacion Iberoamericana de Medicina Familiar (CIMF)
Disasters info Disastres
Health Information Locator
INFOMED
Informacion de Salud para los Consumidores en Espanol
Latin American Network Information Center: Health and Medical Sciences (LANIC)
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

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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://www.southtexascollege.edu/lrc/Library/webdirectory/asusalud.htm

* 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://www.paho.org/

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Updated: 29 February 2008