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| CDC: Traveler's Health
Complete information on health concerns for travelers including required vaccinations, disease outbreaks, children or special needs travellers, and obtaining safe food and water while traveling. Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control. subject(s): Consumer Health. Global Health.
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| EthnoMed
Information about cultural beliefs, medical issues, and related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants. Links to similar sites on cross-cultural issues and to CDC treatment recommendations. University of Washington website. subject(s): Global Health. Social Determinants & Health.
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| EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network
“Clearinghouse of freely available resources contributed, created and translated by a worldwide community of health professionals focusing on Central & Eastern Europe and the New Independent States.” subject(s): Global Health.
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| Global Health Council
Membership alliance that works to improve health around the world. Contains searchable publications. subject(s): Global Health.
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| GlobalHealth.gov
Data resources including country information, world health statistics, reports and publications, and fact sheets. subject(s): Global Health.
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| GlobalHealthReporting.org
Provides news and information about HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria worldwide. Developed and operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. subject(s): Global Health.
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| International Programs Center, U.S. Census Bureau
Assists in the collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, and use of statistics with counterpart governments throughout the world. subject(s): Global Health.
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| Library of Congress Country Studies
Online book series on specific countries "analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors." subject(s): Global Health.
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| MEASURE Evaluation
The MEASURE (Monitoring and Evaluation to ASsess and Use REsults) Evaluation project handles data collection, monitoring, and evaluation of population, health, and nutrition services worldwide. Contains searchable publications. subject(s): Global Health.
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| Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Country health profiles and databases including PAHO Core Health data. Collaborates with government and non-government organizations, universities, and community groups to strengthen health systems and improve the health of peoples of the Americas.
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| Population Reference Bureau
Provides global health statistics, news, and reports and focuses on reproductive health and fertility; children and families; population and the environment; and population futures (aging, inequality and poverty, migration, urbanization, and gender). subject(s): Global Health.
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| SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online
Collection of freely accessible public health and health sciences journals published in Spanish and Portuguese. subject(s): Global Health.
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| UNAIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS site includes country, regional, and global statistics; epidemiological reports; news releases; case studies; and publications on numerous HIV-related topics. subject(s): AIDS/HIV. Global Health.
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| United Nations Systems of Organizations
Index to UN organizations that "work to promote respect for human rights, protect the environment, fight disease, promote development, and reduce poverty." subject(s): Global Health.
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| United Nations: Statistics Division
"Complies statistics from many international sources and produces global updates, including the Statistical Yearbook, World Statistics Pocketbook, and yearbooks in the fields of statistics. It also provides to countries, specifications of the best methods of compiling information so that data from different sources can be readily compared." subject(s): Global Health. Statistics.
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| United States Agency for International Development (USAID): Global Health
Information and publications about all of USAID's Global Health activities. subject(s): Global Health.
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| USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse
USAID-funded international development documentation, searchable by Sector and Region or Country. Health Sector contains subtopics of Child Survival, Disease Prevention, Family Planning, Health Care, Health Education, HIV/AIDS, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, and Population. More recent documents are available to download free. You must request and pay for photocopies of older documents. subject(s): Global Health.
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| World Health Organization (WHO)
Promotes technical cooperation for health among nations, carries out programs to control and eradicate disease, and strives to improve the quality of human life.
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| World Health Report 2004
Published by the World Health Organization (WHO). subject(s): Global Health.
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