Miscellaneous Links
http://tie.telemed.org/links/ provides the most extensive listing of Internet resources related to the Gamefish mission. The "International links" may prove especially useful.
The World Health Organization provides links to National Health-Related web sites in developing countries; web sites from Health Ministries and Central Statistics Offices at The Telemedicine Information Exchange are at http://www3.who.int/whosis/national_sites/index.cfm?path=whosis,national_sites&language=english. These are official sources of much of the data that Gamefish hopes to garner and report.
International Network for Availability of Scientific Publications, INASP-Health provides several important and carefully monitored pediatric information web sites at http://www.inasp.info/health/links/peds.html. The content of each link is described, and those that have a specific focus on health information in developing countries carry a special symbol.
International Health Medical Education Consortium (IHMEC) has published an Annotated List of International Health Related Websites.
The most comprehensive lists of electronic databases of medical information, those including full text journals, text books and manuals as well as other formats, are found at the major medical school libraries. This URL http://130.132.146.110/ejournals2/dbsbylocationhf.asp?wheretogo=MED at Yale University's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is a list of major online resources available to students and faculty there.
An important announcement regarding access to medical information in developing countries is described in this WHO news release: http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2001/en/pr2001-32.html It discloses an arrangement with six publishers that "would allow almost 1000 of the world's leading medical and scientific journals to become available through the Internet to medical schools and research institutions in developing countries for free or at deeply reduced rates." HINARI, Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative is the access point. Many additional publishers have joined the network since the original announcement.
The World Health Organization also supports four bibliographic databases featuring articles originating in developing countries. They are African Index Medicus, Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (LILACS) and Index Medicus for the South-East Asian Region. These are accessible via HINARI or via http://www.who.int/library/country/regional/index.en.shtml.
At this site the WHO provides a World Directory of Medical Schools in pdf format: http://www.wpro.who.int/applics/medschool/default.cfm. Medical schools in developing countries are often important resources for healthcare providers.
The following three are links to the texts of two conferences relevant to the general subject of telemedicine in developing countries.
The United Nations ESCAP Environment and Natural Resources Development Division Space Technology Applications sponsored this symposium: Satellite Communications Technology (SATCom) International Telehealth Symposium. March 14, 2001. The first article is entitled "Satellite Systems for Health and Medical Care: CNES Expertise."
The list of sponsors for this Symposium includes NASA, WHO, National Library of Medicine and the University of Michigan. State of the Art Telemedicine/Telehealth Symposium: An International Perspective. Published in Telemedicine Journal and e-Health, Volume 8, Number 1, 2002. The list of sponsors includes NASA, WHO, National Library of Medicine and the University of Michigan.
The United Nations Environment Programme along with UNICEF and WHO has made this very pertinent article, Children in the New Millennium: Environmental Impact on Health
More Related Links
Center for International Development at Harvard University
Public Library of Science
Texas Institute for Society and Health
Columbia University Earth Institute
United Nations Development Programme - Millennium Development Goals
World Health Organization Home Page
Harvard Medical International
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
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