Global Health: Key Resources
Below are pointers to some important and comprehensive resources in
areas that relate to public health worldwide. If you identify other important
resources that you feel should be included, please send
electronic mail to ghnlib+@pitt.edu
Global Resources
- Africa
- Health, Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information
Resources: includes list of links to Ebola virus information.
- Biomedical Information Resources
& Services - by Subject, collected at the Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, [Sweden].
- The Canadian Health Network: a compilation
of links to Canadian and worldwide resources in English and French [Canada].
- 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.
- 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.
- Evidence-Based Medicine
(EBM): a comprehensive EBM resource that includes links to many Internet
health resource guides; Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Ontario, [Canada].
- A 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
Situation and Projections Estimates is based on and supplements information
contained in the Implementation of the Global Strategy for Health for All
by the Year 2000.
- 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 informations services for a fee.
- Health Care FAQs.
- The Health Education
Program (HEP), The American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation:
a database listing of descriptions (including reading level and content
summaries) of favorably reviewed patient education publications on many
medical subjects [US].
- Health On the Net (HON), an extensive
list of international medical sites, is a project of the Health On the
Internet Foundation, Geneva, [Switzerland].
- HealthSeek: health care industry
related news, information and resources including links to comprehensive
telemedicine sites.
- International Clearinghouse of
Health System Reform Initiatives (ICHSRI): database of information
on health system reform in the developing world, in English [Mexico].
- 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.
- 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.
- National
Library of Medicine (NLM) Online Databases and Databanks including MEDLINE:
descriptions of biomedical information databases available in the NLM's
MEDLARS computerized system. How
to Establish an NLM Online Account provides links to applications for
MEDLARS accounts, a link to international MEDLARS centers, and information
about direct international access. NLM offers software that facilitates
using the MEDLARS system and has developed Internet
Grateful Med.
- NetVet:Veterinary Resources:
a very comprehensive resource with many public and international health
links.
- NISHealth
Clearinghouse.
- NTIS: Health and Safety,
National Technical Information Service: information from the U.S. government
on a variety of health and safety issues.
- On-line Dictionaries:
a comprehensive collection of online dictionaries and grammars in many
languages as well as thesauri and multilingual and specialized 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).
- United Nations Information
Services and a "mirror
site" in Europe.
- The World Health Organization (WHO),
headquartered in Switzerland, has regional
offices around the world.
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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].
- Catalog
of Public Health gophers and WWW sites at the Rollins School of Public
Health at Emory University [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): Public, Occupational and Environmental Health.
- Health Hippo:
Public Health: a comprehensive collection of U.S. public health policy,
regulation and administration sites.
- HealthLinks:
Public Health, University of Washington Health Sciences Center [US].
- Martindale's
Health Science Guide - '95: The "Virtual" Public Health Center.
- Sites
with Health Services Research and Public Health Information from the
Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public
Health and Community Medicine.
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Selected Resources for Specific Diseases or Subject Areas
- 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
- 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 including the comprehensive
IAO - BSE links from
an Independent Agrochemical Observer.
- 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].
- The Diseases Information
Page from the Centers for Disease Control
has information on various communicable diseases [US].
- WHO's Division of Diarrhoeal
and Acute Respiratory Diseases offers resources on Acute Respiratory
Infections (ARI), Diarrhoeal Diseases including Cholera (CDD), and Integrated
Management of the Sick Child.
- 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].
- Emerging Infections Information
Network, from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale
University School of Medicine: downloadable audio, video and text files
of seminar lectures at Yale with accompanying Internet chat-session logs
[US].
- Factsheets
on Communicable Diseases from New York State Department of Health [US].
- Global
Microbial Threats in the 1990s: report of a U.S. Government interagency
working group studying global disease surveillance.
- 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].
- Outbreak:
an on-line information service on emerging diseases.
- University of Washington
Working Group on Emerging and Reemerging Diseases, a multidisciplinary
group created to examine various dimensions of newly emerging, resurging,
and newly recognized infectious diseases.
- 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
- American Diabetes Association's
Publications offers links to professional journals such as Diabetes
Care (original article abstracts), and consumer publications such as
Diabetes Forecast
(some full-text articles).
- The CDC Diabetes
Home Page: links to recently updated information including prevalence
statistics, state-based diabetes control programs, and a list of published
articles with abstracts [US].
- Diabetes Monitor from the Midwest
Diabetes Care Center, Independence, Missouri, includes many informational
links and a search engine [US].
- DRInet: Diabetes Research International
Network, from the University of Miami School of Medicine, provides
information shared by screened members in order to facilitate more rapid
and open access to new diabetes technologies, research findings and treatment
protocols [US].
- Endocrinology/Diabetes
from Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources, Univ. of Iowa [UK].
- National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) also offers a Web page on
Diabetes
Statistics [US].
- The WHO recognizes diabetes
as a worldwide problem.
- State-based Diabetes
Control Programs.
- Disasters & Emergencies
- The Emergency Medicine and Primary
Care Home Page, from the Emergency Medicine Bulletin Board System (EMBBS),
provides resources for emergency and primary care physicians and health
care workers.
- EPIX: Emergency Preparedness
Information eXchange, at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C. [Canada].
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
[US].
- The Global
Health Disaster Network, sister home page of Global Health Network,
maintained by the Department of Emergency Medicine, Ehime University School
of Medicine, Ehime, Japan: includes a comprehensive
listing of disaster-related World Wide Web sites.
- Illinois Cooperative
Extension Service (ICES) Disaster Resources: information on disaster
preparedness and recovery, current conditions and updates, links to many
related sites [US].
- The North American Center for Emergency
Communications (NACEC) was founded in 1992. One of its missions is
to assist in providing logistical communications support and information
services to Disaster Relief Operations throughout North America.
- The Poisons Information Database
from the National University of Singapore, includes directories of antivenoms
and poison control centers around the world (in English and Chinese).
- ReliefWeb, United Nations Department
of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA): information on prevention, preparedness
and disaster response, on-going emergencies and crises; includes maps.
- YAHOO
page on Environment & Nature: Disasters. (YAHOO is an Internet
search engine and guide developed at Stanford University [US].)
- Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Biostatistics,
from the University
of Washington Department of Biostatistics.
- Centre for the Epidemiology of
Infectious Disease, Oxford University, UK. Includes a Dictionary
of Epidemiology.
- 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].
- Health Promotion / Disease Prevention
- CDC
Prevention Guidelines Database: a complete listing, arranged by topic,
date, title; includes a search engine.
- Child Health Research
Project: conducts research on childhood diseases and the improvement
of prevention. Seeking to encourage similar research in developing countries,
its collaborating partners are WHO/Child Health and Development, Harvard
Institute for International Development/Health Office Group, ICDDR, B:
Centre for Health and Population Research, and the Johns Hopkins School
of Hygiene and Public Health.
- Clinical
Practice Guidelines from the Indian Health
Service.
- Comprehensive
Strategies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from University
of California, Irvine Health Promotion Center which emphasizes a social
ecological approach to worksite health: includes a comprehensive listing
of Internet health promotion sites [US].
- Epi Info
Manuals.
- 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 Health Survey
from a commercial community health development firm: a 1995 population-based
health status assessment of a sample of adult U.S. residents. Samples of
data are offered (report in entirety is for sale) along with a discussion
forum on health improvement.
- 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].
- Office of Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion (ODPHP), US
Public Health Service: online publications and links to other health
promotion sites [US].
- Preventable
Diseases: information for health care consumers from Merck & Co.,
Inc. [US].
- WHO Healthy Cities Project,
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.
- 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.
- Hepatitis A Vaccine &
Immune Globulin (IG): vaccine information for travelers from the CDC.
- Immunization Action Coalition; Hepatitis
B Coalition [US].
- Mental Health
- American Psychiatric Association
(APA): extensive resources for clinicians, researchers, and the public,
including a reading
list of reviews of consumer-oriented books on mental illness for adults
and children.
- Behavioral and Mental
Disorders from the Library & Medical Information Center at the
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, [Sweden].
- Dr. Bob's
Mental Health Links, Robery Hsiung, M.D., Assist. Professor of Clinical
Psychiatry, University of Chicago.
- Grohol Mental Health Page Psychology
Web Pointer.
- HealthGuide OnLine:
Your Guide to Health for health care consumers from Clinical Tools,
Inc.: educational presentations on clinical depression, schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and other resources
including Mental
Health Pharmacy which dispenses information on drugs used in mental
health care.
- Mental Health Net: a very comprehensive
guide to Internet mental health resources that includes opportunities for
discussion, a Managed
Care Glossary, and the Self-Help
Sourcebook OnLine, a searchable database of international self-help
organizations.
- Mental Illness
- Frequently Asked Questions, PSAW (Psychiatric Support & Aftercare
Workshops), a UK charitable organization providing community mental health
care: consumer mental health information and a list of UK Mental Health
Contacts.
- National Institute of Mental
Health: grants and contracts information and links to full-text publications
and education programs on mental disorders [US].
- 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.
- Dietary
Guidelines for Americans, U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services
and Agriculture.
- 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), a multinational organization promoting international
cooperation in the scientific study of nutrition: links to international
dietary guidelines, course and meeting announcements, organizations maintained
at Monash University, [Australia].
- 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.
- MN-NET Home Page: information
on micronutrient malnutrition, including a database of international prevalence
and control. A project of the Micronutrient Initiative, International Development
Research Centre, this Web site will be available in French and provides
a link to a similar Brazilian page in Portuguese [Canada].
- USDA Nutrient Values.(click
the indexes)
- HungerWeb
at Brown University [US].
- Population & Reproduction
- Census
and Demographic Data compiled by Larry Schankman, M.L.S., at Mansfield
University, Pennsylvania: access to extensive local, national and international
population and demographic resources [US].
- Demography
and Population Studies (Australian National University): a list of
the leading information sources for researchers in the field of demography.
- Global
Population Data Base distributed through CIESIN,
the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network.
- MEDISTAT (National
University of Singapore): a health and population statistical database
containing statistical information for Singapore, selected Asian countries
and summary data for world regions.
- 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].
- Population and
Reproductive Health: a component of the Global Health Network, University
of Pittsburgh [US].
- United Nations Population Information
Network (POPIN):a network for the coordination of regional, national
and non-governmental population information activities that also maintains
a gopher site.
- US Agency for International Development (USAID) supports the stabilization
of population growth and the promotion of health; USAID
Web site.
- WHO Special
Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction
(HRP).
- Smoking and Tobacco
- CDC's Tobacco
Information & Prevention Sourcepage, Office on Smoking and Health,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: research,
surveillance data, reports including Surgeon General's Reports, educational
materials [US].
- NICNET: Nicotine and Tobacco Network,
University of Arizona Health Sciences Center.
- Tobacco Control Archives,
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF): papers, unpublished documents
and electronic resources including the Brown
& Williamson Collection, documents consisting "primarily of
scientific studies on the addictive nature of nicotine and other health
effects of tobacco smoke."
- Yahoo:
Health: Pharmacology: Drugs: Specific Drugs: Nicotine
- Vaccination and Immunization
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Selected Comprehensive Lists of Medical Resources
- 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.
- Health Care Information
Resources: Illness, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada: comprehensive
patient/family resources on health problems categorized by type of illness.
- Martindale's
Health Science Guide - '95 is a multimedia site maintained at the University
of California, Irvine [US].
- Medical Matrix,
a guide to Internet clinical medicine resources, is a project of the American
Medical Informatics Association's Internet Working Group.
- MedWeb: Biomedical
Internet Resources, provided by Emory University, is extremely comprehensive.
Subtopics of interest to public health professionals include, but are not
limited to, Biomathematics
and Biostatistics, Infectious
Diseases, Preventive
Medicine, and Public
Health.
- 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.
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Guides to Electronic Publications
- CMA Online, a guide to online
Canadian medical journals from the Canadian Medical Association. Some are
completely full-text; the others have tables of contents with abstracts
in French and English and selected full-text articles.
- Electronic Journals: the
WWW Virtual Library Electronic Journals Catalog.
- Instructions
to Authors from Key Health Services (and other) Journals, a very helpful
guide for those submitting research papers for publication, and Electronic
Journals in Public Health and Health Services Research are from the
Health Services Information Center, University of Washington [US].
- MedWeb: Electronic
Newsletters and Journals from Emory University Health Sciences Center
Library: very comprehensive; listed publications vary in quality of information.
- On-line Journals, University
of Chicago Primary Care Group: a collection of journal tables of contents
and abstracts.
- On-Line
Public Health Journals & Newsletters is from Martindale's
Health Science Guide - '95: The "Virtual" Public Health Center.
- Online Journals,
Dykes Library, Kansas University Medical Center: listing of biomedical
journals that publish at least tables of contents on the Web.
- Documentation
& Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque médicale du Centre
Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Rouen: journaux électroniques,
textes électroniques, bases de données/databases [France].
- Survey
of full-text peer-reviewed science, technology and medicine online electronic
journals 1990-1995, part of the Open Journals Framework project [UK].
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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.
- American Journal of Nursing Company,
Online Services: includes some full-text articles from American Journal
of Nursing, Nursing Research, and MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child
Nursing.
- 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.
- Epidemiology,
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology: tables of contents
and abstracts from recent issues.
- 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, a quarterly
magazine from the National Health Service, UK: only a sampling of articles
are online.
- Health Services Research,
the official journal of the Association for Health Services Research, offers
a ten-year index of articles by author and subject and plans to add abstracts.
There is a link to a list of useful resources.
- HST Update,
a monthly newsletter from Health Systems Trust, Durban, [South Africa].
- 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.
- The Journal of
Public Health Medicine: offers online contents and abstracts of current
issues.
- Journals in Epidemiology
from the Web.
- 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.
- The 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.
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