Global Health Resources
Each of these links is a gateway to key electronic resources for
public health professionals.
- Africa
- Health, Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources: includes
list of links to Ebola virus information.
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Biomedical Information
Resources & Services - by Subject, collected at the Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, [Sweden].
- Canadian Health Network: a compilation
of links to Canadian and worldwide resources in English and French [Canada].
- CDC. Centers for Disease Control
- The Child Health Research Project conducts applied research on diarrhoeal
and respiratory diseases, malaria, measles and malnutrition, to help achieve USAID's
strategic objectives to reduce childhood mortality and morbidity.
- CDC National AIDS Clearing House
- CliniWeb, an index to
Web-based clinical information, is a project at Oregon Health Sciences University that
includes CliniWeb Search, which
matches free-text query statements with Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) disease
classification terms, and CliniWeb
Browse, which links terms from the MeSH disease classification with WWW pages offering
clinical information.
- Communicable Disease
Surveillance Centre of England and Wales (CDSC)
- Directories,
Catalogs, and Indices for Locating Internet Resources, Health Sciences Library System,
University of Pittsburgh: Health Directories section lists subject-based directories in
the medical and health sciences.
- Gene Map of the Human
Genome published in the journal Science: a map of the locations of more than 16,000 of
the genes found inside a human cell, a collaborative project by more than 100 scientists
from governments, universities and commercial laboratories across the world. "The
gene map unifies the existing genetic and physical maps with the nucleotide and protein
sequence databases in a fashion that should speed the discovery of genes underlying
inherited human disease." Includes a glossary and links to general information on a
variety of diseases.
- Global Health Network
GHNet - This is a large collection of public health sites developed by the Global
Health Alliance. The "Organizations", "Information" and "Special
Focus" areas lead to information and public health experts from all over the world.
- HCN Australian Health,
Health Communication Network, Australian Internet health information providers: searchable
database of Australian health sites. Other resources available at no cost are
conference announcements and
consumer health brochures; HCN also offers materials and information services for a fee.
- Health On the Net (HON), an extensive
list of international medical sites, is a project of the Health On the Internet
Foundation, Geneva, [Switzerland].
- Healthy
Partners
- Maintained by American International Health Alliance, these pages have a
wealth of information including reports from AIHA projects, funding resources, e-mail
directories, country information and translated material.
- HealthSeek: health care industry
related news, information and resources including links to comprehensive telemedicine
sites.
- International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC)
- International Clearinghouse of
Health System Reform Initiatives (ICHSRI): database of information on health system
reform in the developing world, in English [Mexico].
- Johns Hopkins University
- Medical World Search: a medical
search engine that searches major medical sites on the Web, and the indexes of other
search engines, by mapping keywords and phrases to the National Library of Medicine's
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) thesaurus (requires registration for customized
features).
- Medical/Health
Sciences Libraries on the Web, maintained at the Hardin Library for the Health
Sciences, Univ. of Iowa, lists Web sites from medical libraries around the world. Some
include links to their online catalogs.
- MedicineNet, written by U.S.
board-certified medical specialists: a well-designed consumer-oriented site that includes
a medical dictionary and listing of disorders and treatments.
- Medline
- Medscape from
SCP Communications, Inc.: a clinical medical site that includes peer-reviewed articles,
arranged by specialty, and daily medical news for health care providers and consumers.
- Mosquito Genomics
- National
Library of Medicine (NLM) Online Databases and Databanks including MEDLINE:
descriptions of biomedical information databases available in the NLM's MEDLARS
computerized system. NLM
offers software that facilitates using the MEDLARS system and has developed Internet Grateful Med.
- National Science Foundation (USA)
- NISHealth
Clearinghouse.
- OncoLink
- On-line
Dictionaries: a comprehensive collection of online dictionaries and grammars in many
languages as well as thesauri and multilingual and specialized dictionaries.
- OneLook Dictionaries -- Dictionary and Glossary List -
Special Subject Dictionaries
- Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO) Technical Information: program descriptions in health areas, e.g.,
immunization (including updated disease surveillance statistics), disease prevention and
control, disasters.
- Preliminary Study
Public Health Documentation, Technical University Berlin Institute of Health Sciences:
description of an assessment of informational needs in public health research with an
emphasis on public health-related issues of urban planning and engineering; includes links
to public health Internet resources (German and English versions).
- ProMed: Program for
Monitoring Emerging Diseases: a project of the Federation of American Scientists to
develop an effective global infectious disease surveillance system, improving capabilities
for dealing with emerging infectious diseases.
- Public Health
in Deutschland Homepage (in German).
- Risk: Health, Safety &
Environment Association
- Stanford University Medical Center
- UN Internet WEB and Gopher pages
- United Nations Information
Services
- USAID. United States Agency for
International Development
- World Health Organization (WHO),
headquartered in Switzerland, has regional
offices around the world.
- WHO European Regional Office
- An excellent site which has descriptions of technical programs, a list of
WHO/Europe publications and links to many other sites, including Schools of Public Health
in Europe.
- World Bank -
Early Child Development
Journals
Databases
- PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s free online search service offering
access to nine million citations from the medical literature in Medline and Pre-Medline
databases. Many citations include an abstract and links to full-text articles.
Governments
and Multi-National Organizations
United States Government
Bilateral Agencies
United Nations
Non-Governmental Organizations / Projects
Electronic
Publications of Special Interest
to Public Health Professionals
- ACP Journal Club,
American College of Physicians: summaries and commentaries on selections from the
biomedical literature.
- AMA Publications:
links to Web editions of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) and archives
of several other medical journals, American Medical News, Science News Summaries
(including public health news), and Science News press releases of recent published
research with abstracts. A brief one-time, no-cost registration process is required.
- BMJ, the British Medical Journal.
- EID: Emerging Infectious Diseases
is published by the National Center for
Infectious Diseases, CDC, international in scope, and intended for professionals in
infectious diseases and related sciences.
- Evidence-Based
Medicine, the American College of Physicians and the BMJ Publishing Group: summaries
and commentary on "significant evidence-based articles from the biomedical
literature"; selections from print bimonthly journal.
- Health Matters is an independent quarterly magazine about health politics and policy.
It is non-profitmaking and has a principled editorial policy in support of the NHS and a reduction in health inequality both nationally and internationally.
The magazine was launched in 1988 and has steadily built a strong reputation for clear, authoritative reporting and analysis.
- International Journal of
Epidemiology: contents and abstracts of current issues.
- Journal Club on the Web, an on-line,
interactive, general medical journal club, includes summaries of journal articles (mostly
adult internal medicine) with comments and is authored and maintained by Michael Jacobson,
MD, MPH, an internist/cardiologist.
- Journal of Public Health
Medicine: offers online contents and abstracts of current issues.
- Merck
Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy from Merck & Co., a pharmaceutical company engaged
in research: the Infectious Diseases, Disorders Due to Physical Agents, and Poisoning
sections may be of particular interest to public health professionals [US].
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report (MMWR), prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
requires Adobe(TM) Acrobat(TM) Reader. An ASCII text version is available at the MMWR gopher
site.
- Nature Medicine, a monthly
international biomedical research journal, offers tables of contents and article abstracts
from recent issues.
- New England Journal of Medicine,
complete/partial text or abstracts of articles from current and past (1996) issues.
- Revista Salud Pública de México
(Public Health of Mexico Magazine): in Spanish (abstracts in English).
- Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Selected Guides
and Catalogs of Public Health Resources
- BioSites:
Public Health, National Network of Libraries of Medicine: Internet public health
resources evaluated and compiled by medical libraries in the southwest [US].
- Epidemiology
(Biosciences, Medicine), World Wide Web Virtual Library. Maintained by the Dept. of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Univ. of California San Francisco, this is an extensive
list of government and international sources, university sites, sites by disease/subject,
publications, meetings, and statistics sources.
- Hardin MD (Meta
Directory) of Internet Health Sources from the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences,
Univ. of Iowa: "pointers to the most complete and frequently cited lists,"
arranged by subject and by size of list. A What's New feature lists daily additions of
health sites to the WWW.
- Hardin MD (Meta
Directory): Public, Occupational and Environmental Health.
-
Health Care Information
Resources: Illness, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada: comprehensive patient/family
resources on health problems categorized by type of illness.
- HealthLinks:
Public Health, University of Washington Health Sciences Center [US].
-
Martindale's Health
Science Guide - '95 is a multimedia site maintained at the University of California,
Irvine [US].
-
Martindale's Health
Science Guide - '95: The "Virtual" Public Health Center.
-
Medical Matrix, a guide to
Internet clinical medicine resources, is a project of the American Medical Informatics
Association's Internet Working Group.
-
OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information,
from the National Institute for Medical Research, UK, and six other consortium members, is
a well-organized, indexed gateway to high quality biomedical information on the Internet
[UK].
-
Virtual Library: Biosciences -
Medicine, maintained at Harvard University [US].
-
YAHOO Health page. YAHOO is one of the attempts at comprehensive cataloging
of Internet resources.
Selected Resources for
Specific Diseases
AIDS/HIV
- AIDS Daily Summaries from
the Centers for Disease Control.
- AIDS Pathfinder,
compiled at the Pacific North West Regional Medical Library, at the University of
Washington, [US].
- HealthSource: AIDS/HIV
(with multilingual information) from COHIS (Community Outreach Health Information System),
a health promotion and education project, Boston Univ. School of Medicine [US].
- HIV/AIDS Prevention
from CDC's National Center for HIV,
STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP) [US].
- International Association of Physicians in AIDS
Care (IAPAC): drug and treatment news, conference announcements and reports,
information on opportunistic diseases, journal articles, and consumer information.
- UNAIDS: Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS.
Cancer Prevention and Control
- International Union Against Cancer
Contact information for member organizations, links to other organizations.
- Cancernet
Managed by U.S. National Cancer Institute, this site has access to CANCERLIT Topic
Searches, Treatment Protocols, Patient information.
- Cancer News on the Net, edited by
Richard K.J. Brown, M.D.: links to news resources; information grouped by cancer type;
articles accepted for review and Internet publication by editor.
- CancerNet, information for health
professionals, basic researchers, and patients on all types of cancer, and guidelines for
treatment. The information is maintained and updated monthly by the National Cancer
Institute [US].
- Guide to Internet
Resources for Cancer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne: includes links to resources
grouped by type of cancer, medical specialty, country and language [UK].
- OncoLink is a comprehensive resource
for doctors and patients, including resources to help patients cope with the disease.
Maintained at the University of Pennsylvania [US].
Communicable Diseases
- All the Virology on
the World Wide Web from Garry Lab at Tulane University: a very comprehensive site that
includes pictures of viruses and microbiology course note sets [US].
- BMJ's BSE-CJD (Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy-Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) Home Page: information from the British
Medical Journal on BSE in the UK and its possible relationship to CJD (alternate URL). The site includes a clinical
description of CJD, full-text articles on BSE, statements from the British government, the
WHO BSE Fact Sheet (Mar. '96),
and links to other lists
- CDSC: The Communicable Disease
Surveillance Centre of the Public Health Laboratory Service for England and Wales
includes link to CDR (Communicable Disease Report) with instructions for downloading.
- Cyclospora:
information on the parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis for the general public and health
professionals, from the National Center for
Infectious Diseases [US].
- Emerging and Other
Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control (EMC) from WHO includes reports of
disease outbreaks and information on viewing or subscribing to the Weekly Epidemiological
Record (WER).
- Emerging and Re-emerging
Viruses: An Essay, by Alison Jacobson, Department of Microbiology, University of
Capetown [South Africa].
- Factsheets
on Communicable Diseases from New York State Department of Health [US].
- HealthSource: Infectious
Diseases from COHIS (Community Outreach Health Information System), a health promotion
and education project, Boston Univ. School of Medicine [US].
- Lyme Disease: Information
Resource: comprehensive.
- Medscape:
Infectious Diseases: abstracts, peer-reviewed full-text articles and a list of
keywords that can be used
for searching this topic, for health care providers and consumers (one-time registration
required) [US].
- World Wide Web Server for
Virology, Institute for Molecular Virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison:
includes a wealth of links to articles and documents on Ebola outbreaks, information on
BSE including names and addresses of BSE-involved public health doctors.
Diabetes
Hepatitis
- Diseases of the Liver:
a list of links compiled by CPMCnet at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center that
provide information on specific liver diseases including Hepatitis A, B, C, D E and G.
- Hepatitis
A to E, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC: a slide presentation of the
clinical features, Epidemiology and prevention of viral hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E.
- Immunization Action Coalition; Hepatitis B
Coalition [US].
Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
- UNAIDS
Good source for links to other AIDS organizations and institutions; 1996 statistics. The
CDC AIDs Summaries are reprinted here.
- HIV/AIDS Information
- U.S. National Library of Medicine
- CDC National Center for AIDS,
STDs and Tuberculosis
The U.S. National AIDS Clearinghouse database is here. Prevention and treatment protocols,
statistical information and health education materials.
- HEPNET
This site focuses on the needs of the medical community, providing updates on patient care
issues, serology, new clinical papers and news releases, as well as links to many other
excellent hepatitis related sites.
- International
Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Contact information and a description of the organization.
Influenza
Smoking and Tobacco
Tropical Diseases
Tuberculosis
Vaccination and Immunization
Selected
Resources by Subject Area
Disasters & Emergencies
Environmental Health
Epidemiological and Statistical Data
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious
Disease, Oxford University, UK.
- CEDR: Comprehensive Epidemiologic
Data Resource, is "an effort of the U.S. Department of Energy to integrate and
broaden access to its epidemiological information. The CEDR information system...began as
a repository of data that support the DOE Worker Health and Mortality Study, and is
expanding to provide access to other types of data relevant to epidemiologic issues, such
as dose reconstruction, area monitoring, and epidemiologic surveillance data."
- Epidemiology (Biosciences, Medicine), World Wide Web Virtual Library, maintained by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the
University of California, San Francisco.
- Reach: Resources for Enhancing
Alzheimer's Caregiver Health: includes information on data management for this study
conducted by the University Center for Social and Urban Research with the Epidemiology
Data Center, University of Pittsburgh [US].
- Sentiweb: includes
epidemiological surveillance bulletins, reports and maps; in French and English [France].
- Statistics Canada, Canada's
national statistical agency: includes Canadian Dimensions:
The People, with population data, life expectancy, vital statistics, notifiable
diseases; French and English versions; list of other statistical Web servers [Canada].
Family Planning and Reproductive Health Resources
- POPLINE
POPLINE provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population,
family planning, and related health issues published since June 1997.
- POPTECH
Source for evaluations of USAID projects.
Health Law
- The Medical and Public Health Law Site,
University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law: includes Law and the Physician: A
Practical Guide, an electronic book, and Federal Regulations on Medicare Payments to
Physicians, each organized as a searchable infobase [US].
- Selected Internet
Resources in Health Law and Policy, Saint Louis University School of Law Center for
Health Law Studies: well-annotated links to health law resources arranged in categories
[US].
Health Promotion / Disease Prevention
- Health Care Information
Resources: Wellness, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada: comprehensive health care
consumer resources on disease prevention and health promotion.
- Health Promotion on the Internet,
provided by the Health Promotion Unit of Monash University's Department of Medicine,
includes links to health resources in Victoria, Australia, as well as to many other
health-related WWW sites [Australia].
- Health Promotion Research Internet Network:
international health promotion centers and sites from the WHO Collaborating Centre on
Supportive Environments for Health at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, [Sweden].
- National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) World Wide Web home page from the
CDC.
- The National Library of Medicine's Health
Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) includes the Agency for Health Care Policy
and Research Clinical Practice Guidelines (some consumer versions in Spanish) and the
Public Health Service Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (Second Edition). Keyword
searching is available [US].
- Preventable
Diseases: information for health care consumers from Merck & Co., Inc. [US].
- WHO Healthy Cities
and Network -
WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark: a project that aims to build
worldwide local lobbies for public health; includes downloadable publications and contact
lists of project city coordinators.
Injury and Safety
International Business,
Trade, Marketing and Industry Information
Mental Health
Micronutrient Resources
Nutrition & Hunger
- Center for Nutrition Policy and
Promotion (CNPP), U.S. Department of Agriculture: seeks to improve the nutritional
status of the population by linking scientific research to the consumer.
- Food and Nutrition
Information Center, part of the National Agriculture Library [US].
- International Food Information Council
(IFIC) Foundation: "sound, scientific information on food safety and nutrition to
journalists, health professionals, educators, government officials and consumers"
[US].
- International Union of Nutritional
Sciences (IUNS). The objects of the IUNS are:
to promote advancement in nutrition science, research and development through international cooperation at the global level;
to encourage communication and collaboration among nutrition scientists as well as to disseminate information in nutritional sciences through modern communication technology.
- Internet FDA, U.S. Food and Drug Administration:
food, drug and medical device safety and approval information including some FDA food and
cosmetic documents in Russian and Spanish.
- USDA Nutrient Values.
(click the
indexes)
- HungerWeb at
Brown University [US].
Population & Reproduction
- Demography
and Population Studies (Australian National University): a list of the leading
information sources for researchers in the field of demography.
- Office of Population Affairs
(OPA),
Dept. of Health and Human Services: adolescent pregnancy trends, grant information, family
planning and reproductive health care resources, legislation [US].
- US Agency for International Development (USAID) supports the stabilization of
population growth and the promotion of health; USAID
Web site.
Rural Health
Travel Health
Tools
- Currency
Exchange Rates (UNDP) - All countries updated monthly.
- Local Times Around the World -
Local times and Greenwich Mean Time/Universal Coordinated Time in cities around the world.
- The AT&T Business Traveler
- This website contains country codes, city codes, and other helpful information for
international dialing and faxing.
- U.S. Postal Server - See for zip codes, postal
rates, other mail-related information.
- National Address Server -
Provides zip codes for known addresses.
- CDC Travel Information
Geographic Health Recommendations, Disease Outbreaks, Reference Material for International
Travel.
- Lonely Planet Online - Down to earth
travel guides.
- Country, City, Regional Home Pages -
Predominately US and European destinations.
- Hotels & Travel on the
Net - Includes airline and airport information
- Language Translator - Primarily
European Languages.
- Travel and Transportation
Per Diem Rates - US and Foreign Rates
- Search Engines
Google | Alta Vista
| Excite |
HotBot | Infoseek
Lycos | Magellan
| WebCrawler |
Yahoo
- Netscape's "Net
Search"
- Metacrawler -
MetaCrawler relies on the databases of other search engines, including Lycos,
Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, and Yahoo. It organizes the results into a
uniform format, ranks them by relevance and cites the search engine where the web page was
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