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Access Part II

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

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Access Part II

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  1. Access Part II Accessing Health Information Through the Internet

  2. Population and health resources • Websites • Periodicals (Journals, Newsletters) • News Alerts • Discussion Groups • Conferences • Online Learning

  3. Websites • Bibliographic Databases • Directories of Population Organizations • General News • Health • Population Policy • Population and Health Statistics

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reproductive health providing more than 300,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the fields of population, family planning, and related health issues.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

  5. POPLINE (cont.)

  6. POPLINE (cont.)

  7. POPLINE (cont.)

  8. Directory of population organizations 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.

  9. Netlinks (cont.)

  10. Netlinks (cont.)

  11. 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

  12. Manager’s electronic resource center (cont.)

  13. Manager’s electronic resource center (cont.)

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. PRB website

  17. PRB DataFinder

  18. PRB DataFinder (cont.)

  19. PRB Library

  20. PRB for Educators

  21. Population and health resources • Websites • Periodicals (Journals, Newsletters) • News Alerts • Discussion Groups • Conferences • Online Learning

  22. 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 Periodicals (journals and newsletters)

  23. Journals • Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) www.healthinternetwork.org Launched 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.

  24. HINARI

  25. Journals — health • The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journal Can view online articles if registered, registration is free.

  26. The Lancet

  27. Newsletters — regions • AIDS Action, Asia-Pacific Edition www.hain.org/aidsaction01.html International newsletter on HIV/AIDS prevention and care

  28. AIDS Action — Asia-Pacific Edition

  29. 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)

  30. Discussion groups • COMMUNITY-HEALTH-L (MSH) • DemoNetAsia • HealthDev (SEA-AIDS) • PROCAARE • Repronet-L • Related to conferences

  31. Online learning • North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness www.sph.unc.edu/nccphp/training/index.html The 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.

  32. North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness

  33. Review • Websites • Periodicals (Journals, Newsletters) • News Alerts • Discussion Groups • Online Learning

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