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African Regional Health Report: The Health of the People
Dictionary of Epidemiology
Eldis: Health Resource Guide
Global InfoBase
Glossary for Evidence Based Public Health
MEASURE Program
Verbal Autopsy Standards: Ascertaining and attributing causes of death

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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/

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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