Essential Health Links: Nutrition/Diet and Chronic Disease
see also
- GENERAL HEALTH RESOURCES: Fulltext E-books
- BMJ Collected Resources http://bmj.com/collections
- FreeMedicalJournals.com http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
- Karolinska Institutet: Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html
- PubMed Retrieval System (MEDLINE) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
- Source Bibliographic Database: International Health and Disability http://www.ids.ac.uk/data/source/source.htm
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International Diabetes Federation (IDF)International Obesity Taskforce (IOTF)
ProCOR
WHO: Chronic Diseases
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International Diabetes Federation (IDF) (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)IDF promotes diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide. The site gives links to publications, press releases and diabetes-related programs and meetings. http://www.idf.org
International Obesity Taskforce (IOTF)
The IOTF is the advocacy arm of the International
Association for the Study of Obesity. The site has links to
international and academic organizations dealing with obesity and
obesity-related chronic diseases (i.e. diabetes, cardiovascular
diseases and cancer). http://www.iotf.org
ProCOR (Focus on
Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)
ProCOR is a global health communication network promoting
cardiovascular health in developing countries and other low-resource
settings. It promotes exchange of knowledge among health workers,
public health professionals, community planners, advocates, policy
makers, and information specialists. ProCOR is a program of the Lown
Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts USA. To
subscribe to the ProCOR email forum, send an email to
WHO: Chronic Diseases
(Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Arabic, Chinese, French,
Russian, Spanish)
This site contains information on diet-related conditions such as
obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. It
includes links to technical reports and information about WHO programs
plus a ‘country information’ database and a Global InfoBase. Included
are links to WHO sites on diabetes
and
obesity. http://www.who.int/topics/chronic_diseases/en/
The Nutrition pages of Essential Health Links are advised by Ann Burgess, freelance nutrition consultant, member of the Nutrition Society, UK and Marlou Bijlsma, nutrition consultant.
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Updated: 09 April 2008