Essential Health Links: Public Health/Health Systems

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AccessMod (Modeling Physical Access to Health Care)
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
Designing and Conducting Health Systems Research Projects
Disease Control Priorities Project
Global Resource Center: Human Resources for Health
Health Manager's Toolkit
Human Resources Health Dossier
Innovative Technologies for Health Care Delivery (INTRAH)
International Health Impact Assessment Consortium (IMPACT)
MAKER: Management of Health Services
Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
Patient Safety Solutions
portable Knowledge Assessment Development System (pKADS)
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Health Systems
Routine Health Information Network (RHINO)
Supercourse: Health Systems
WHO: Health Care Waste Management
World Bank: Health, Nutrition and Population

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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/

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

WWHO: 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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