Guest Editor Dr. Rodger Doran provided us pointers to a huge number of websites on different aspects of public health and disasters including emergency medicine, infectious diseases, health and nutrition, emergency response and scientific journals. We have presented some of the websites here that may be of interest to our readers.
Annals of Emergency Medicine. (WSP Occasional Paper No. 3) by
Birgitte Sorensen.
This site is the online edition of the Annals of Emergency Medicine, the official publication of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Non-members can access its bookstore, which carries the Spring 2000 publication catalog of resources for emergency medicine physicians and professionals, a master calendar for emergency medicine, and links to other emergency medicine sites and disaster related pages and publications.
Emerging Infectious Diseases.
This is the site of the peer-reviewed journal Emerging Infectious Diseases published by the National Center for Infectious Diseases. It provides information on emerging infections in the following categories: Perspectives addresses factors that underlie disease emergence; Synopses summarizes existing information on specific emerging diseases or syndromes; Dispatches reports preliminary but promising laboratory or epidemiological data; Research Studies reports laboratory and epidemiological results within a public health perspective; and Policy Review reports public health policies based on research and analysis of emerging disease issues.
WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record.
This World Health Organization site provides, free of charge, epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases and on other communicable diseases of public health importance, including newly emerging or re-emerging infect.
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
This site offers weekly morbidity and mortality data on specific diseases as reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by U.S. state and territorial health departments, and reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries. Also included are reports on topics of international interest and notices of events of interest to the public health.
Virtual Health Library (WHO/OPS).
This is the BIREME site, the Latin American and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information. The Virtual Health Library is a network of health information sources in the region, with 14 bibliographic databases and a collection of scientific journals on specialty topics. It features Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS), which permits the use of a common terminology for searching in three languages (English, Spanish and Portuguese). A document delivery service is also available for registered users.
Health Information Network for Advanced Planning.
This site provides consolidated baseline health information by country and health issues of primary concern, and makes it available for program planning. The site provides up-to-date information during an emergency, permitting program adjustment due to changing circumstances, thereby minimizing mortality and morbidity from preventable causes.
UN Administrative Committee on Coordination, Sub-Committee on Nutrition (ACC/SCN).
This site offers SCN News, a periodic review of developments in international nutrition, and the Refugee Nutrition Information System, which reports on the nutrition situation of refugee and displaced populations, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
WHO Division of Emergency and Humanitarian Action (EHA).
This site features the Health Information Network for Advanced Planning (HINAP), which provides vital background health data on country situation in advance of a potential emergency for decision-makers and field workers of relief agencies; Emergencies, which provides urgent information from WHO on its work on current emergencies; a Discussion Zone for sharing ideas, information and requests; Resource Centre, a comprehensive document center including the EHA Newsletter, maps, journals, articles, publications from disaster literature, guidelines for health interventions and a contact database; Violence and Injury, comprehensive information on the prevention of violence and injury; and Research and Development, the latest research projects on emergency health issues and a guide to emergency health training programs.
ReliefWeb (UN-OCHA).
This site features the Latest Update on emergencies and natural disasters that occurred within the previous 72 hours, humanitarian response information on current complex emergencies and countries of concern, disaster response information on current natural disasters and archival material dating back to 1981, response documents by country and territory with a complete set of external background links by sector, and reference and thematic maps concerning current and past humanitarian emergencies and natura
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
This is the site of the JAMA, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, with the key objective to promote the science and art of medicine and the betterment of the public healt
British Medical Journal (BMJ).
This site contains the full text of all articles published in the weekly British Medical Journal from January 1994. Access to the entire site is free. The site also offers a collection of resources: clinical and non-clinical BMJ articles by specialty and topic, special theme issues of the BMJ a
The New England Journal of Medicine.
This site is the online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It offers subscribers access to the full text of all scientific articles. Non-subscribers can access many selections from the journal, including a
The Lancet Interactive.
This site offers the weekly medical journal The Lancet, an electronic research archive in international health, discussion groups and links to biomedical sites.
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