Essential Health Links

This resource provides more than 700 useful websites for health professionals, medical library communities, publishers, and NGOs in developing and emerging countries.

Users should note that the compilers do not have sufficient resources to evaluate the scientific accuracy of each website that is included in Essential Health Links. See Criteria for selection and evaluation.

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Essential Health Links is organized into three sections:

1. General Health Resources
2. Specific Health Resources
3. Library and Publishing Support

A. General Health Resources

• Search Engines
• Gateways 1
• • Gateways International
  • Gateways Africa
  • Gateways Asia and Pacific
  • Gateways Latin America
  • Gateways Newly Independent States
• Bibliographic Databases, Abstracts and Trials Databases
• Conferences
• Dictionaries and Glossaries
• Disease Classifications
• Email Lists
• Evidence Based Medicine
• Fulltext E-Books
• Fulltext E-Journals
• Fulltext E-Newsletters, Reviews and Fact Sheets
• Health News
• Health Organizations
• Health Research Resources
• Health Statistics
• Image Collections
• Medical Education and Clinical Skills
• Medical Informatics, Telemedicine and E-Health
• World Health Organization (WHO) Sites

B. Specific Health Resources

• Anesthesiology
• Basic Sciences
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Dental Health
• Dermatology
• Diabetes
• Emergency Medicine and Trauma
• Environmental Health
• Eye Health
• Gastroenterology
• HIV-AIDS
• • Databases and Statistics
  • Diagnosis and Management
  • Dictionaries and Glossaries
  • Email Lists
  • Gateways
  • Organizations
  • Prevention and Control
• Mental Health and Psychiatry
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Nutrition
• • Diet and Chronic Disease
  • Food Security
  • General Nutrition
  • Micronutrients
  • Mother and Child
  • Severe Acute Malnutrition and Emergencies
• Oncology
• Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat)
• Pediatrics
• Patient Education
• • General Patient Education and Search Engines
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Reproductive Health
• Pharmacology and Prescribing
• Primary Care and Health Education
• Poisoning and Toxicology
• Public Health
• • Databases, Statistics, Dictionaries and Glossaries
  • Disease Prevention and Control
  • Epidemiology
  • Fulltext E-Journals and E-Newsletters 2
  • Health Education
  • Health Systems
• Radiology and Medical Imaging
• Reproductive Health
• • Databases, Statistics, Dictionaries and Glossaries
  • Diagnosis, Management and Prevention
  • Email Lists
  • Family Planning
  • Fulltext E-Journals and E-Newsletters 2
  • Gateways
  • Gynecology
  • Organizations
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Surgery and Orthopedics
• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases
• • Disease Outbreaks and Surveillance
  • Email Lists
  • Fulltext E-Journals and E-Newsletters 2
  • Gateways
  • Infectious Diseases - Bacterial and Mycotic
  • Infectious Diseases - General
  • Infectious Diseases - Parasitic
  • Infectious Diseases - Viral
  • Malaria
  • Organizations
  • Tuberculosis

C. Library and Publishing Support

• Health Information and Library Networks
• Internet Skills for Health Information Users
• Library Support
• Publishing Skills

Notes

1 A 'gateway' is a website that provides a linked list of webpages on a particular subject. The purpose is to make it easier for anybody to find useful information on that subject. Before being added to the list, each website is evaluated by one or more professionals. If websites are considered to be reliable and relevant, they are included on the list. To help the users select the best information, each recommended webpage contains an annotated description of the site. Gateways generally place quality over quantity, but may have a large number of recommended sites, in which case the sites are commonly organised into sections and subsections. For example, Essential Health Links has over 600 sites, organized into 3 sections, which are further divided into about 50 sub-sections.
2 The E-Journals and E-Newsletters listed in this section are only a few examples of many that are available on this topic - others can be found via the links listed at Fulltext E-Journals.

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