Access Part II
Accessing Health Information
Through the Internet
Population and health resources
Websites
 Periodicals (Journals, Newsletters)
 News Alerts
 Discussion Groups
 Conferences
 Online Learning
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Websites
Bibliographic Databases
 Directories of Population Organizations
 General News
 Health
 Population Policy
 Population and Health Statistics
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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reports, books, and unpublished reports in the fields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.)
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.
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
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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
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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
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Periodicals (journals and
newsletters)
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Adolescents
AIDS
Demographics
Development
Education
Environment
Family Planning/
Contraceptives
General News
Geography
Health
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Labor
Migration
Organizations
Policy
Population Issues
Population Software
Refugees
Regions
Reproductive Health
Surveys
Women
Journals
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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.
HINARI
Journals — health
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The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journal
Can view online articles if registered,
registration is free.
The Lancet
Newsletters — regions
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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)
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Discussion groups
COMMUNITY-HEALTH-L (MSH)
 DemoNetAsia
 HealthDev (SEA-AIDS)
 PROCAARE
 Repronet-L
 Related to conferences
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Online learning
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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 reemerging disease agents.
North Carolina Center for Public
Health Preparedness
Review
Websites
 Periodicals (Journals, Newsletters)
 News Alerts
 Discussion Groups
 Online Learning
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