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Caribbean Virtual Disaster Library (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site contains a 'virtual disaster library' with
approximately 150 fulltext documents in html or pdf format.
It includes articles, maps, videos, reports, government
documents and manuals related to disaster preparedness. The
University of West Indies Department of Geography and Geology
and the Caribbean Disaster Information Network maintain this
resource.
http://mona.uwi.edu/cardin/virtual_library/searchlibrary.asp
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S: Health Topics A-Z
The CDC Health Topics A-Z pages provide extensive public
health data on a range of health issues but the data are
mainly related to the U.S. The site also contains travel
health advice.
http://www.cdc.gov/az/a.html
Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Spanish)
This is a link to the fulltext issues of a 'Disasters'
newsletter produced by the Pan American Health Organization.
Each newsletter contains a thematic discussion of a
disaster-related topic. While emphasizing issues prevalent in
the Americas, the topics discussed are applicable worldwide.
http://www.paho.org/english/dd/ped/newsletter.htm
Disasters and Humanitarian Assistance: Topic Index (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Spanish)
This topical index contains links to fulltext documents
dealing with manmade and natural disasters, disaster
preparedness and response, mental health issues and disaster
migration. While many of the links pertain to
Caribbean-related disasters, there are numerous preparedness
and response documents that are applicable worldwide. The
site is maintained by the Pan American Health Organization.
http://www.paho.org/english/dd/ped/topics.htm
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
Disease Control Priorities Project (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
DCPP assesses disease control priorities and produces
evidence-based analysis and resource materials for health
policymaking in developing countries. DCPP has produced three
volumes of technical resources. The site includes the
fulltext documents from the three volumes that can be
accessed by region, country, disease/condition and topic.
DCPP is supported by the World Bank, WHO and several NGOs.
http://www.dcp2.org/main/Home.html
Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR) (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish)
This site contains information on outbreak news and country
activities concerning epidemic and pandemic alerts and
responses. It contains links to fulltext documents on global
outbreak alerts, international health regulations laboratory
amd epidemiology regulations, preparedness for deliberate
epidemics and an
Archive
by Disease A-Z Listing. The site is maintained by the WHO
and also is available in French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and
Chinese.
http://www.who.int/csr/en/
Focus on Field Epidemiology
This site contains a series of pdf files and presentation
slides about topics on "practical approaches" in field
epidemiology, including management of disease outbreaks. The
information is intended primarily for U.S. health
professionals, but the content is clear, generic and
applicable in any country. The site is maintained by the
North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness, U.S.
http://nccphp.sph.unc.edu/focus/
Global Health eLearning Center (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Global Health E-Learning Center contains a menu of
courses about key public health topics It is a hands on,
interactive learning tool that requires (free) registration.
The courses are intended for USAID field staff and partners,
but are relevant to health professionals worldwide. The
eLearning Center is maintained by the USAID Bureau of Global
Health.
http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm
Global Health Watch (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Global Health Watch 2005-2006 offers a critique of global
trends that threaten health including the practices of
multinational corporations, the false promise of the genetics
revolution, the scandal of hunger in a world of plenty and
the failure of UN institutions such as WHO to live up to
their original mission to promote the health of poor people.
Global Health Watch shows clearly that whether we are healthy
or not is deeply rooted in our political, economic and social
structures.
http://www.ghwatch.org/2005report/ghw.pdf
GLOBALink (International Tobacco Control Network) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site provides news, discussion forums, petitions, links,
databases, reports, strategy planning guides, and other tools
for tobacco control advocacy and research. There is free
membership but individuals must complete the on-line
application form. The site is supported by the European
Commission, Director General for Health and Consumer
Protection.
http://www.globalink.org/globdemo/
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2nd ed.
This site provides recommendations on preventive
interventions for more than 80 conditions. It contains links
to full-text (PDF) files, organized by disease and
intervention (screening, counselling, immunizations and
chemoprophylactic regimens). The site is maintained by the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S.
http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/guidecps/
Health Library for Disasters (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
This virtual 'Health Library for Disasters' contains more
than 400 scientific and tehcnical documents published on
disasters and emergencies. It incorporates the works of the
disaster and emergency programs of WHO, UNHCR, UNICER, PAHO
and numerous other intergovenmental and international
organizations. The collection is available in French and
Spanish, has a keyword search engine and also is organized by
topic, titles, and organizations. It is combined project of
WHO, PAHO and related technical divisions.
http://www.helid.desastres.net/
HealthMap: Global Disease Alert Map (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Spanish, French, Russian and Chinese)
Using an interactive map, the site is able to track diseases
on the regional, country and local level. Users are able to
select ‘resources’, ‘diseases’,
‘country alerts’ and ‘latest (news)
alerts’. The map links to various resources including
WHO, EuroSurveillience, ProMed Mail, etc. to track disease
outbreaks worldwide. The site is maintained by Harvard-MIT
Division of Heath Services and Technology, USA.
http://www.healthmap.org/en
National Academy Press: Health and Medicine
The National Academy Press
contains links to over 3,000 full-text books on public health
and preventive medicine.
http://www.nap.edu/
Pandemic Resources
The site is a 'web bibliography' of Internet-based pandemic
resources. It includes abstracts and fulltext documents.
Links are organized by broad subject categories including
pandemic preparedness, guidelines and policies, economics,
ethical issues, books, links to related sites and training
resources. The site is maintained by the Center for
Bioethics, Indiana University, U.S.
http://www.bioethics.iu.edu/pandemic.asp
Public Health: OpenCourseWare
This Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health, U.S. site contains the initial phase
of OpenCourseWare project. The objective of this endeavor is
to provide free, searchable, access to JHSPH's course
materials for educators, students, and self-learners
throughout the world. These Internet based courses are
self-paced and do not require registration nor grant degrees
or certificates. Currently containing fifteen courses, the
project plans to add up to one hundred courses by the end of
the decade. One of the courses is specifically related to
"Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health
Workers" in developing countries:
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/TrainingMethodsContinuingEducation/index.cfm http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
Public Health Care Laboratory ( (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site emphasizes information for laboratory services in
developing countries. It contains full-text information on
equipment, training, total quality management procedures and
a resource centre with links to related organizations, books
and documents.
http://www.phclab.com/
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Public Health/Prevention (48000+)
This PubMed search will identify all public health/prevention
related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database.
Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext
material. By repeating this search periodically, you will
find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed
database weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar
searches for most subpages listed in the Specific Health
Resources table of contents.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22public%20health%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20public%20health%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22prevention%20and%20control%22%5BSubheading%5D%20OR%20prevention%5BText%20Word%5D%29
Social Medicine Portal
The portal contains annotated links to fulltext documents on
social medicine, a discipline that seeks to understand how
health, disease and social conditions are interrelated. It is
organized by broad subject categories that include social
medicine, community health and health activism. This portal
is a project of the Department of Family and Social Medicine,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, U.S.
http://www.socialmedicine.org/
Vaccine Resource Library (VRL) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The VRL gathers the world’s best immunization resources
in a single, easy-to-use website. It offers a wide variety of
high-quality, scientifically accurate documents. The site is
organized by broad diseases and vaccines and immunization
topics plus contains links to resources in Arabic, Chinese,
French, Japanese Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. It is
maintained by PATH, a USA based non-governmental
organization.
http://www.path.org/vaccineresources/
WHO: Epidemic and Pandemic Alert Response (EPR): Diseases Covered (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)
The site contains an alphabetical list of ‘diseases
covered’ by the organization. Each specific site
contains the latest WHO information, global and country maps
plus diagnosis and treatment guidelines and links to related
full-text documents.
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/en/
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