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reports, books, and unpublished reports in the fields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.)
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

 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  Labor
 AIDS  Migration
 Demographics  Organizations
 Development  Policy
 Education  Population Issues
 Environment  Population Software
 Family Planning/  Refugees
Contraceptives  Regions
 General News  Reproductive Health
 Geography  Surveys
 Health  Women
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.
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
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.
North Carolina Center for Public
Health Preparedness
Review

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