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* id21 health: Communicating Development Research (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
id21 health contains a selection of the latest and best
UK-based development research. It includes links to full text
articles on: non-communicable diseases, infectious diseases,
HIV/AIDS, sexual health, family planning, maternal health,
child health, and environmental health, health economics and
financing, and health systems and policy. It is hosted by Eldis, a UK based development gateway.
http://www.eldis.org/id21ext/
*Health Sciences Online
This is a useful tool to access Internet based health
resources, particularly clinical guidelines/handbooks,
courses, lectures, articles and reports. It contains links to
over 50,000 Internet resources via a dynamic search engine
that prioritizes the resources and allows you to refine your
initial searches by resource type and language. For each
link, the search contains a preview, the source and the size
of the document.
http://www.hso.info
*WHO: Health Topics (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
This WHO site links to full-text information (clinical,
preventive medicine and research) on the following topics:
communicable/infectious diseases, tropical diseases,
vaccine-preventable diseases, non-communicable diseases,
environment, family and reproductive health, health policies,
statistics, and systems, health technology and lifestyle. The
site acts both as an access point for WHO materials, and as a
gateway to other sites. It is available in English, French
and Spanish.
http://www.who.int/topics/en/
Banque de Donnïes Santï Publique (French only)
This is a French-language resource. It is intended mainly for
public health professionals in France. However, the site
includes a useful thesaurus of health science and related
areas. It also includes an extensive French-language gateway,
although most of the recommended sites are French or European
and very few have a focus on developing countries
http://www.bdsp.ehesp.fr/
Catalogue et Index des Sites Mïdicaux Francophones (CISMeF) (French - in part - English)
This gateway contains links to French language health-related
websites. The site includes bibliographies, databases, email
lists, electronic journals, medical organizations and
academic institutions. It also contains a page of links to
email discussion lists for medical librarians. The site
includes a keyword search index and is maintained by the
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Rouen, France.
http://www.chu-rouen.fr/cismef/
Development Gateway (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
This is the website of the Development Gateway, an
organization that helps communities, organizations, and
individuals build partnerships to reduce poverty. It contains
subject-based and keyword indices. For each topic, the
sub-page contains a discussion of the key issues, current
news and projects. Many of the subjects are health related
including HIV/AIDS, population and reproductive health,
gender issues and ICT for health care.
http://www.developmentgateway.org/
Global Health Library (GHL) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The goal of this 'under construction' project is to provide
'first step' access to reliable health information in paper,
electronic and other formats. The WHO Library and Information
Networks for Knowledge gateway will point to information
collections and systems in which user groups can best meet
their health information needs, facilitate the access to
information content produced by key providers and act as a
resource locator for print material essential to areas
without access to electronic content.
http://www.who.int/ghl/en/
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources (Spanish)
This meta gateway ('gateway of gateways') contains links to
sites in numerous clinical subjects that include gateways,
fulltext information, illustrations and free PubMed articles.
It also contains access to related fulltext sites in Spanish
and a keyword search index. The site is maintained by the
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa,
U.S.
http://hardinmd.lib.uiowa.edu/
Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)
HSTAT provides free access to full-text clinical guidelines,
quick reference guidelines for clinicians, and consumer
brochures. The site is maintained by the National Library of
Medicine, U.S.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK16710/
Health Systems Trust (HST) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
HST is a leading clearinghouse for information related to
health care in South Africa. The site includes information
about HealthLink, a project of HST to meet the communication
and information needs of health workers in South Africa.
There is also an extensive gateway to information resources
relevant to those involved in public health and health
systems development. The links are arranged by subject and
are regularly updated. HST hosts email discussion lists,
including Doctors' Dialogue [mailadoc], which provides
practical support to rural doctors.
http://www.hst.org.za/
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resources Collection - Biological, Agricultural and Medical Sciences
INFOMINE is a sophisticated search index to 20,000+
databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin
boards, email lists, online library card catalogues, articles
and directories of researchers.
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?bioag
Inform Sourcebooks on Health (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
These Sourcebooks provide guidance about accessing free information resources on
different health subjects. Each book contains descriptions of online resources that are
relevant to a particular topic (such as reproductive health). In addition, each book contains links to the cited Internet resources. Some of the new and revised Sourcebooks include Information Resources for Health Professionals, Child Survival, Medicine and Health and Public Health. INFORM is a Sweden-based non-governmental organization that provides onsite training in low and middle income countries.
http://www.inform-network.org/doku.php?id=inform_sourcebooks_on_health
Internet Public Library: Health and Medical Sciences Resources
The ARGUS Clearinghouse identifies, describes and evaluates Internet information resources. The health section includes subcategories such as disabilities, diseases and disorders, fitness and nutrition, general health, medical specialties, medicine and medical services, and sexuality and reproduction.
http://www.ipl.org/IPLBrowse/GetSubject?vid=13&tid=6840&parent=0
Intute: Medicine including Dentistry
This site is a guide to 'the very best web resources for education and research' for Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health, Agriculture, Food and Forestry, Veterinary Medicine, Bioresearch, and Natural History. Broadest access is via the 'health and sciences' page that contains over 31,000 resouce descriptions. This initial page also includes links to the MedHist and Bioethics Web resources provided by the Wellcome Trust and a Virtual Training Suite for medicine including dentistry.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/medicine/
Library of Congress, U.S.: Portals to the World (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Portals to the World contain selective links providing
authoritative, in-depth information about the nations of the
world. They are arranged by country or area with the links to
a wide range of broad categories including health. While not
primarily a health gateway, many of the sub-pages contain
annotated links to fulltext health sites within specific
countries. The links were selected by Area Specialists using
U.S. Library of Congress selection criteria.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
Medscape: Home Pages
The site provides links to full-text clinical medicine
articles enhanced with keyword searches, graphics, and
annotated links to Internet resources. It is organized into
28 specialty and 6 international home pages with news,
patient information and medical images. Registration is
required (free).
http://www.medscape.com/
NLM Gateway
NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users search
simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S.
National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM
services to initiate searches from one Web interface,
providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information
resources or databases. The gateway is targeted to the
Internet user who comes to NLM not knowing exactly what is
there, or how best to search for it.
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd?GMOverview%26loc=lhc
WHO: ePORTUGUÊSe (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese)
This is a WHO initiative to promote and strengthen
collaboration among the various Portuguese-speaking WHO
Member States. The project aims to establish and maintain an
alliance of health-related institutions and health workers in
Portuguese-speaking countries, for promoting better health
through the development of knowledge communities and the
sharing of Portuguese-language information resources. It
includes links to Portuguese language health
resources/databases and organizations.
http://www.who.int/eportuguese/en/
WHO: Programmes and Projects
This page lists WHO programs, partnerships and other projects in alphabetical order. For
specific information about public health subjects (including diseases), refer
to the health topics index. It is organized in an alphabetical A-Z list.
http://www.who.int/entity/en/
Yahoo: Diseases and Conditions
This site includes a search engine
and an annotated alphabetical hypertext list of syndromes and
diseases.
http://dir.yahoo.com/health/diseases_and_conditions/index.html
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