Access Part II

Accessing Health Information Through the Internet

Population and health resources

Websites Periodicals (Journals, Newsletters) News Alerts Discussion Groups Conferences Online Learning

Websites

Bibliographic Databases Directories of Population Organizations General News Health Population Policy Population and Health Statistics

Bibliographic database

POPLINE http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/basic.html

Database on reproductive health providing more than 300,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the fields of population, family planning, and related health issues.

POPLINE has links to free, fulltext documents; the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles; and many abstracts in French and Spanish.

POPLINE (cont.)

POPLINE (cont.)

POPLINE (cont.)

Netlinks www.jhuccp.org/info/netlinks.php

Netlinks is a database of electronic resources (web sites, databases, listservs, etc.) related to international health and development. It is updated monthly.

Directory of population organizations

Netlinks (cont.)

Netlinks (cont.)

Health

Manager’s Electronic Resource Center (MSH) http://erc.msh.org

Provides a wealth of useful resources for health managers

Leadership Development Managing Information Electronic Learning Communications

Manager’s electronic resource center (cont.)

Manager’s electronic resource center (cont.)

Population and health statistics

Population Reference Bureau Provides information about the population

dimensions of social, economic, and political issues.

Provides timely and objective information on international population trends and their implications.

PRB major activities

Publish, disseminate, and promote print and electronic material.

Collaborate with organizations to develop and implement strategies for communicating with policymakers.

Conduct training on policy communications and Internet use.

Collaborate with journalists to expand the coverage of population, health, and environment subjects.

PRB website

PRB DataFinder

PRB DataFinder (cont.)

PRB Library

PRB for Educators

Population and health resources

Websites Periodicals (Journals, Newsletters) News Alerts Discussion Groups Conferences Online Learning

Periodicals (journals and newsletters) Adolescents AIDS Demographics Development Education Environment Family Planning/

Contraceptives General News Geography Health

Labor Migration Organizations Policy Population Issues Population Software Refugees Regions Reproductive Health Surveys Women

Journals

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) www.healthinternetwork.orgLaunched by the UN and WHO to provide free or nearly free access to major journals in biomedical and social sciences. Institutions in countries with a GNP per capita below US $3000 are eligible for free or nearly free access. Over 2000 journals from 28 publishers are accessible.

HINARI

Journals — health

The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journal

Can view online articles if registered, registration is free.

The Lancet

Newsletters — regions

AIDS Action, Asia-Pacific Edition

www.hain.org/aidsaction01.html

International newsletter on HIV/AIDS prevention and care

AIDS Action — Asia-Pacific Edition

Electronic news alerts

Adolescent Forum The Drum Beat HNPFlash (World Bank) Kaiser Daily Health Reports The Pop Reporter UN Wire (UN Foundation) Weekly Epidemiological Record (WHO)

Discussion groups

COMMUNITY-HEALTH-L (MSH) DemoNetAsia HealthDev (SEA-AIDS) PROCAARE Repronet-L Related to conferences

North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness www.sph.unc.edu/nccphp/training/index.htmlThe NCCPHP offers a series of free short Internet-based trainings on public health preparedness, focusing on such topics as sampling, surveillance, community assessment, outbreak investigation, epidemiology methods, and emerging and re-emerging disease agents.

Online learning

North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness

Review

Websites Periodicals (Journals, Newsletters) News Alerts Discussion Groups Online Learning