Essential Health Links: Public Health/Disease Prevention and Control


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Caribbean Virtual Disaster Library
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S: Health Topics A-Z
Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas
Disasters and Humanitarian Assistance: Topic Index
Disasters info Disastres
Disease Control Priorities Project
Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR)
Focus on Field Epidemiology
Global Health eLearning Center
Global Health Watch
GLOBALink (International Tobacco Control Network)
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
Health Library for Disasters
National Academy Press: Health and Medicine
Pandemic Resources
Public Health: OpenCourseWare
Public Health Care Laboratory
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Public Health/Prevention
Social Medicine Portal

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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 and preparedness for deliberate epidemics. 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/

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/

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Updated: 29 February 2008