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AccessMod (Modeling Physical Access to Health Care) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site contains a tool for the analysis of physical access
to health care. This tool has been developed by WHO, with the
contribution of the Centres of Excellence (GEOIDE), the
faculty of Medicine of the University of Sherbrooke and the
School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences of the RMIT
University in Melbourne.
http://www.who.int/kms/initiatives/accessmod/en/index.html
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Chinese, French, Spanish)
The Alliance aims to promote the generation, dissemination
and use of knowledge for enhancing health system performance.
The site includes information about the organization, its
goals, services, research and partners. An initiative of the
Global
Forum for Health Research, it is available in French,
Spanish and Chinese.
http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/en/
Designing and Conducting Health Systems Research Projects (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This e-book is structured as a course, with 33 modules in two
volumes. Volume 1 describes proposal development and field
testing; Volume 2 looks at data analysis and report writing.
The course was developed by the International Development
Research Centre, Canada
http://www.idrc.ca/panasia/ev-33013-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Disease Control Priorities Project (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This is an ongoing effort to assess disease control
priorities and produce evidence-based analysis and resource
materials to inform health policymaking in developing
countries. DCPP has produced three volumes providing
technical resources that can assist developing countries in
improving their health systems. The site contains PDF and
HTML versions of these reports and a series of fact sheets,
data and maps and interventions related to the reports’
findings. The project is funded by the World Bank.
http://www.dcp2.org/main/Home.html
Global Resource Center: Human Resources for Health (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Resource Center provides support to human resources for
health (HRH) stakeholders and decision makers via a
web-based, searchable knowledge base and a series of relevant
full-text documents. It also offers personalized support from
an experienced knowledge management team. The site is
maintained by the Capacity Project, a USAID funded endeavor.
http://www.hrhresourcecenter.org/
Health Manager's Toolkit (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Portuguese, Spanish)
The site provides a selection of tools for health
professionals to provide high quality and sustainable health
services. The tools are organized by subject area and include
spreadsheet templates, forms for data gathering, checklists,
guidelines and self-assessment tools. The content is
available in Spanish, Portuguese and French and is maintained
by Management Sciences For Health, U.S.
http://ecu3.msh.org/toolkit/
Human Resources for Health Dossier (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site describes how to develop human resources to improve
health service delivery for poor people. It offers practical,
up-to-date information and draws upon field evidence. The
site is organized into broad subject categories and also
contains a keyword search engine. This is a joint project of
Health Systems Resource Centre and ELDIS, UK.
http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/dossiers/human-resources-for-health/
Innovative Technologies for Health Care Delivery (INTRAH) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
INTRAH works to improve health care programmes and training
in developing countries. The site is maintained by the School
of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
U.S.
http://www.intrah.org/
International Health Impact Assessment Consortium (IMPACT) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
IMPACT is a consortium that brings together specialists to
implement the use of "health impact assessment" in developing
and transitional countries. The site has information about
the organization and its programs. It is maintained by the
Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, U.K.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/ihia/
MAKER: Management of Health Services (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This WHO management tutorial is based on the acronym MAKER or
"Managers taking Action Based on Knowledge and Effective use
of resources to Achieve Results". It reviews numerous
management-related concepts and strategies needed for the
effective delivery of health services on multiple levels. The
site includes links to fulltext documents on numerous aspects
of management - policy and planning, financial planning and
management, human resources planning and management,
governance and accountability, and managing performance.
http://www.who.int/management/intro/en/index.html
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site contains information about the organization and its
projects. MSH is a non-profit educational and scientific
organization that works to bridge the gap between science and
public health. It currently has projects in 15 countries and
works in the areas of primary health care, maternal and child
health, family planning and reproductive health. The
organization has developed an extensive "electronic resource
center" (
http://erc.msh.org/) for health
managers.
http://www.msh.org/
Patient Safety Solutions
Launched in May 2007, the WHO and Joint Commission
International have developed a site titled "Nine patient
safety solutions". The goal of this endeavor is to help
reduce the toll of health care-related harm affecting
millions of patients worldwide. The topics range from
look-alike medication names to control of electrolyte
solutions, avoiding catheter and tubing misconnections and
single use injection devices. All solutions are available as
downloadable PDF files.
http://www.jointcommissioninternational.org/24839/
portable Knowledge Assessment Development System (pKADS) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site is a link to an open source, portable version of
the Knowledge Asset Development system (pKADS) developed by
the United Nations Population Fund. This tool is used to
capture and share knowledge within an organization, by
creating and editing knowledge asset details (categories,
questions and answers, objectives, resources, network
members, etc.) on a computer. It would be applicable to
numerous health related projects.
http://pkads.bis.ucc.ie/
Public Health Institutes of the World (IANPHI) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
IANPHI is a catalyst for the development and growth of the
world's national public health institutes – or NPHIs.
In collaboration with countries and partners, IANPHI works to
develop stronger and more coordinated public health systems
through the enhancement and establishment of NPHIs. Besides
information about the organization, the site has links to
various projects, meetings and events and the
NPHI Toolkit, a
resource guide for strengthening national public health
institutes.
http://www.ianphi.org/
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Health Systems (6800+)
This PubMed search will identify all health systems 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%22health%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20health%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20systems%5BAll%20Fields%5D
Routine Health Information Network (RHINO) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
RHINO promotes high quality and practical approaches to the
collection and use of routine health information in
developing countries. 'Routine health information' includes
data such as patient records, epidemiological surveillance
data, and vital statistics such as mortality rates. RHINO
provides workshops, on-line forums, a web based bibliography,
full text documents and the
RHINO
Listserv. The project's participants include developing
country governments, donor agencies and technical groups. It
is a joint venture of the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation
Project, the World Bank, and John Snow, Inc (U.S.).
http://www.rhinonet.org/
Supercourse: Health Systems
This site contains links to over 150 PowerPoint lectures on
health systems throughout the world. It is a sub-page of the
University of Pittsburgh, U.S. based
‘Supercourse’ website, a global repository of
public health and prevention instructional material.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/systems/systems.htm
Support: Supporting Policy Relevant Reviews and Trials (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The aim of this project is to improve the use of reliable
research evidence in policy and management decisions and to
help fill in the gaps where there is a lack of reliable
evidence. For health policy makers, the site contains concise
summaries of the best available evidence of the effects of
health systems interventions and maternal and child health
interventions for low and middle-income countries. For
researchers, it contains a downloadable ‘trial protocol
tool’. This site is supported by the Medical Research
Council, South Africa.
http://www.support-collaboration.org/
WHO: Essential Health Technologies (EHT) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This WHO site highlights the work of the EHT Department. It
emphasizes evidence-based essential health technologies to
provide cost-effective solutions to health problems. It
contains links to several pdf files on health technologies
for low-income countries.
http://www.who.int/eht/en/
WHO: Health Care Waste Management (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This WHO site contains information on how to manage health
care wastes in low- income countries including procedures for
handling sharps, non-sharps, blood, body parts, chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, medical devices and radioactive materials.
http://www.healthcarewaste.org/en/115_overview.html
World Bank: Health, Nutrition and Population (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site describes the World Bank�s policies and programs
to improve health, nutrition, and population outcomes of poor
people and protect people from the impoverishing effects of
illness, malnutrition, and high fertility. It contains links
to numerous fulltext policy statements and reports on public
health and primary care topics.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/0,,menuPK:282516~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:282511,00.html
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