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- Adolescent Reproductive Health Network (ARHNe)
"site contains an excellent database on Adolescent Reproductive Health Literature, with links to full text where available; organization conducts Health System and Health Promotion Research in Eastern and Southern Africa"
- Center for Communication Programs (Johns Hopkins University)
"site contains a wealth of information on reproductive health and preventive medicine; contains links to relevant organizations and full text information including the Center's publications, press releases and studies from the JHU Population Information Program "
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
"information about the promotion of health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability; includes links to the Centers' full text electronic journals"
- Chronic Disease Epidemics in Developing Countries: Can We Telescope Transition?
"a full text article about the impact of demographic, environmental and nutritional change on health in developing countries; by K. Srinath Reddy, Professor of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi"
- Council on Health Research for Development
"site contatins a database that allows users to store and retrieve information about countries, people, organizations, links, events, activities and documents relevant to Essential National Health Research (ENHR); a ngo that promotes, facilitates, supports and evaluates ENHR"
- EngenderHealth
"site includes fact sheets and online courses in reproductive health for healthcare workers in low-resource settings; addresses family planning, maternal/child health, reproductive health care for women and men, postabortion care, and the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections andcervical cancer"
- Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
"provides recommendations on preventive interventions for more than 80 conditions; contains links to full-text (PDF) files; organized by intervention (screening, counseling, immuizations and chemoprophylactic regimens) and disease; compiled by the (U.S.) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality"
- Health and Human Resources Analysis for Africa: Publications Online
"an extensive list of full text articles from the US AID's HHRAA; contains articles on child survival, health sector reform, family planning and reproductive health and emerging health threats and crisis response"
- International Health Matters
"a digest that emphasizes sustainable health benefits from applied research funded by the UK Government's Health and Population Division; as of March 1999, digests published on safer motherhood, tuberculosis, and malaria"
- Media Materials Clearinghouse
"an international resource for health professionals who seek samples of pamphlets, posters, videos,
and other media/materials designed to promote public health; supported by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs"
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Medical Matrix: Preventive Medicine
"a series of annotated format category links to sites on public health; includes News, Full Text Journals, Abstracts, Reviews, Reviews and Digests, Articles, Meeting Reports, Practice Guidelines, Textbooks and more"
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Medical Matrix: Public Health
"a series of annotated format category links to sites on public health; includes News, Full Text Journals, Abstracts, Reviews, Reviews and Digests, Articles, Meeting Reports, Practice Guidelines, Textbooks and more"
- National Academy Press: Medicine/Public Health
"contains links to full text books that are published by the National Academy Press; primarily public health and preventive medicine titles from 1995 to date; additional titles are added regularly; this page is one of 23 linked subject listing that include biology, food & nutrition and environmental issues"
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention (U.S.)
"information about prevention of death and disability from chronic diseases and promotion of maternal, infant, and adolescent health, and healthy personal behaviors"
- National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.)
"information about environmental health within the U.S.; provides practical and constructive services to U.S. constituents; particularly interested in programs that benefit children, elderly people and people with disabilities"
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.)
"information about the the Center's programs to reduce injury, disability, death, and costs associated with injuries outside the workplace"
- Public Health Care Laboratory
"site emphasizes information for laboratory services in developing countries; contains full-text information on equipment, training, total quality management procedures and a resource centre with links to related organizations, books and documents"
- SA HealthInfo: Nutrition
"module contains information on the nutrient composition of foods in South Africa; user can search and view the energy and macronutrient (fat, protein, carbohydrate, fibre) composition of different foods in the
South African Food Composition database"
- Supercourse: Epidemiology, The Internet and Global Health
"a distance learning course on epidemiology for public health and preventive medicine; designed to provide an overview on epidemiology and the Internet for medical and health related students around the world"
- United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
"a wealth of population and reproductive health related information including a Multilingual Dictionary of Demographic and Reproductive Health Terminology, a worldwide directory of population institutions, regional population information, United Nations reports and numerous links to population related sites"
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Last updated March 15, 2002
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