INASP Links & Resources INASP HEALTH LINKS: Specific Health ResourcesPaediatrics
Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization (WHO/CAH) The site contains information on the CAH and its programs. The Department's work aims to better the health of infants, children and adolescents. It contains the full text of several publications including nutritional information for infants and children and links to other related sites. It contains a key word search engine and some documents in French, Spanish and Russian. http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health
Facts for Life 'Facts for Life' presents, in simple language, authoritative information about practical, effective and low-cost ways to protect children's lives and health. The 2002 Internet edition contains summaries of the subject chapters and has new sections on HIV/AIDS, emergencies and accidents. It is available in English, French and Spanish. From this website, the complete chapters can be downloaded as PDF or text files. It is co-published by UNICEF, WHO, several other UN agencies and the World Bank. http://www.unicef.org/ffl/
Harriet Lane WWW Links This is an extensive collection of links to resources in paediatrics and child health. The site is sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, U.S. http://derm.med.jhmi.edu/poi/
Neonatology on the Web This site provides links to general reference materials, including a formulary for neonates, with dosing guidelines by gestational age and weight and references. The site also contains a section on the use of computers in neonatology, and abstracts of current literature. The website is maintained by a paediatrician in the USA and is not supported, endorsed, or subsidized by any agency, organization, or company. The site is targeted mainly to health professionals in developed countries. http://www.neonatology.org/
Nutrition Training Materials This site serves as a gateway to numerous free and low cost print or online fulltext documents for health professionals in low-income countries. It is maintained by the Nutrition Society, UK. http://www.nutsoc.org.uk/educationtrainingmaterials2.htm
PEDINFO PEDINFO is a gateway to paediatric Internet sites, maintained by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S. http://www.pedinfo.org/
PedsCCM File Cabinet This site is a multidisciplinary resource of original and distributed educational and practical materials for paediatric critical care . http://pedsccm.wustl.edu/FILE-CABINET/FILE_cab_index.html
Perinatal Educational Programme The site contains a series of training resources for health professionals in developing countries. The site also contains full-text manuals on newborn care, maternal care, and perinatal HIV/AIDS. It is maintained by the Perinatal Education Trust, Republic of South Africa. http://www.pepcourse.co.za/
PubMed – Free Fulltext Articles on Paediatrics (4000+) This PubMed search will identify all paediatrics/pediatrics related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. ‘Health Links’ contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the ‘Specific Health Resources’ table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28pediatrics%5BText%20Word%5D%20OR%20paediatrics%5BText%20Word%5D%20OR%20%22pediatrics%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%29
Rehydration Project: Focus on Diarrhoea, Dehydration and Rehydration The Rehydration Project provides a vast amount of full-text clinical and research information about diarrhoea, dehydration and rehydration. It also includes access to the the Healthlink Worldwide newsletter, 'Dialogue on Diarrhoea' and selected journal articles. http://www.rehydrate.org/
World Health Organization: Division of Child Health Development This WHO site contains clinical information on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, Acute Respiratory Infection, Diarrhoeal Disease, and Cholera. http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/
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