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GENERAL HEALTH RESOURCES: Fulltext E-Journals
BMJ Collected Resources http://bmj.com/collections
Karolinska Institutet: Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html
PubMed Retrieval System (MEDLINE) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
Source Bibliographic Database: International Health and Disability http://www.ids.ac.uk/data/source/source.htm
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S: Health Topics A-Z
The CDC Health Topics A-Z pages provide extensive public health data on a range of health issues but the data are mainly related to the U.S. The site also contains travel health advice. http://www.cdc.gov/health/default.htm


Communicable Disease Prevention and Control
This site provides selective summaries of infectious disease outbreaks worldwide. http://www.cdpc.com/main.htm


Disasters info Disastres Spanish Focus on DCs
The site is a gateway to websites and full-text publications that relate to disaster management in the Caribbean and Latin American. The links include regional organizations and courses in disaster management. The site is available in English and Spanish and is maintained by the Pan American Health Organization. http://www.disaster.info.desastres.net/socios_eng.htm


Effective Health Care Alliance Programme Focus on DCs
This site disseminates reviews of effective projects. It has links to full-text 'effectiveness updates' on malaria, infectious diseases, pregnancy and childbirth and professional practices. It is maintained by the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Review Group. http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/ehcap/introduction.html


Focus on Field Epidemiology
This site contains a series of pdf files and presentation slides about topics on ‘practical approaches’ in field epidemiology, including management of disease outbreaks. The information is intended primarily for U.S. health professionals, but the content is clear, generic and applicable in any country. The site is maintained by the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness, U.S. http://www.sph.unc.edu/nccphp/focus/


Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2nd ed.
This site provides recommendations on preventive interventions for more than 80 conditions. It contains links to full-text (PDF) files, organized by disease and intervention (screening, counselling, immunizations and chemoprophylactic regimens). The site is maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/guidecps/


National Academy Press: Medicine/Public Health
The National Academy Press contains links to full-text books on public health and preventive medicine. http://books.nap.edu/v3/makepage.phtml?val1=subject&val2=ms


Public Health Care Laboratory Focus on DCs
The site emphasizes information for laboratory services in developing countries. It contains full-text information on equipment, training, total quality management procedures and a resource centre with links to related organizations, books and documents. http://www.phclab.com/


PubMed – Free Fulltext Articles on Public Health/Prevention (17000+) new
This PubMed search will identify all public health/prevention 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%28%22public%20health%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20public%20health%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22prevention%20and%20control%22%5BSubheading%5D%20OR%20prevention%5BText%20Word%5D%29


Social Medicine Portal
The portal contains annotated links to fulltext documents on social medicine, a discipline that seeks to understand how health, disease and social conditions are interrelated. It is organized by broad subject categories that include social medicine, community health and health activism. This portal is a project of the Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, U.S. http://www.socialmedicine.org/


WHO: Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Focus on DCs
This site is organized by disease and provides information on the impact, history, geographic distribution and surveillance of each disease. It also provides news of disease outbreaks plus links to other relevant sites. http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/index.html

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