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African Regional Health Report: The Health of the People (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French)
This first regional report focuses on the health of the 738
million people living in the African Region of the World
Health Organization. The report offers hope that over time
the region can address the health challenges it faces, given
sufficient international support. It provides a comprehensive
analysis of key public health issues, including HIV/AIDS and
malaria. The report can be downloaded free of charge as a
large pdf file (8Mb) .
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/afro/2006/9290231033_rev_eng.pdf
Dictionary of Epidemiology
This dictionary contains linked cross-references within each
definition. It is compiled by the University of Cambridge,
UK.
http://www.swintons.net/jonathan/Academic/glossary.html
Eldis: Health Resource Guide (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site is an annotated gateway that contains abstracts of
news articles, reports and policy papers from
non-governmental organizations and international
organizations in the health/development field. Each abstract
has a link to the fulltext document. The articles are
organized by topical, regional or keyword access. The site
contains a subject based links section and is a collaboration
between ELDIS (Institute of Development Studies) and the
Department for International Development, UK.
http://www.eldis.org/health/index.htm
Global InfoBase (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Developed in 2002, the WHO Global InfoBase is a data
warehouse that collects, stores and displays information on
chronic diseases and their risk factors (overweight/obesity,
blood pressure, cholesterol, alcohol, tobacco use,
fruit/vegetable intake, physical inactivity, diabetes) for
all WHO member states. Various search strategies are in the
left hand frame plus a glossary of terms. This data warehouse
holds over 500,000 data points from 9,500 surveys
representing 186 countries.
http://www.who.int/infobase/report.aspx
Glossary for Evidence Based Public Health (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This glossary defines and explains the main concepts of
evidence based public health.
http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/58/7/538.pdf
MEASURE Program (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The USAID funded MEASURE (Monitoring and Evaluation to Access
and Use Results) program is designed to provide and promote
the use of accurate and timely information on population,
health and nutrition in developing countries. Besides a
summary of the program, this site contains numerous resources
including survey and methodology tools, demographic and
health survey data and other publications and the 'MEASURE'
tool application.
http://www.measureprogram.org/
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The project is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies,
public health organizations, and health sciences libraries to
provide timely, convenient access to selected public health
resources on the Internet. Via a keyword search engine and a
list of ‘main topics’, public health
professionals can view annotated links to relevant sites. The
topics range from health promotion/education to data
tools/statistics, meetings and education/training.
http://phpartners.org/
Pathway for Evidence-Based Resources and Other Resources
This site contains links to broadly defined public health
evidence-based guidelines, systematic reviews, filtered
searches of published studies, best practices, public health
journals, and databases. Each broad category contains links
with brief annotations. The site is maintained by the Medical
Library, University of Massachusetts, USA and is part of the
‘Partners in Information Access for the Public Health
Workforce’ project.
http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph/
Verbal Autopsy Standards: Ascertaining and attributing causes of death (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Produced by the WHO Statistical Information System, the
Verbal Autopsy Standards is a manual designed to disseminate
new standard data collection and cause-of-death assignment
resources for verbal autopsy, and to provide some general
guidelines for their use.
http://www.who.int/whosis/mort/verbalautopsystandards/en/
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