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Web Resources for Health Studies

  • African Networks for Health Research and Developments (AFRO-NETS)
    The electronic conference for the 'African Networks for Health Research & Development' (AFRO-NETS) was established in 1997 to facilitate exchange of information among different networks active in Health Research for Development in Anglophone Africa, and to facilitate collaboration in the fields of capacity building, planning, and research.

  • Association of Public Health Observatories
    The Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) represents a network of 12 public health observatories (PHOs) working across the five nations of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. They produce information, data and intelligence on people's health and health care for practitioners, policy makers and the wider community.

  • British Medical Association

  • Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
    The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is a registered charity and the professional voice for environmental health. It sets standards, accredits courses and qualifications for the education of members and other environmental health practitioners.
    It provides information, evidence and policy advice to local and national government and environmental and public health practitioners in the public and private sectors.

  • Department of Health
    This web site is very useful for the availability of Reports and other Publications. The areas covered include policy & guidance on; Equality & Human Rights, Health & Social Care, Performance Assessment & many more. Many are free to download. You can search the Publications Library on the site to identify documents related to your assessment topic.

  • Europa: European Commission
    Health Indicators

  • Europa Public Health

  • Faculty of Public Health (Royal College of Physicians UK)
    The Faculty of Public Health is the standard setting body for specialists in public health in the UK. There are links to Publications etc under the "Resources" button at the top of the homepage. Also look at Health Themes for information on Cardiovascular Health/Obesity etc.

  • Intute: Health & Life Sciences

  • Joseph Rowntree Foundation

  • London Health Observatory
    LHO provides a wide range of key services to support health and health care practitioners in their day-to-day work in the Capital. They analyse a wide range of health-related data. We run training programmes and produce a monthly, online newsletter.

  • London Health Commission

  • The Managers Electronic Resource Center
    A resource for health service managers particularly in developing countries. Contains downloadable management tools, documents and information in areas such as health policy, health service reform, community health and clinical services, health planning financial management and organisational development.

  • National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

  • Pan American Health Organization
    The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with more than 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.

  • Public Health Resources Unit: Appraisal Tools
    These tools were developed by the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) to help with the process of critically appraising research articles in relation to Systematic Reviews, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Randomised Control Trials and more.

  • Public Health Statistics Department of Health UK

  • Schools for Health in Europe
    SHE network is the Schools for Health in Europe network. SHE network aims to support organisations and professionals to further develop and sustain school health promotion in each country by providing the European platform for school health promotion. The network is coordinated by NIGZ, as a WHO Collaborating Centre for School Health Promotion.

  • Shaping the Future of Health Promotion

  • World Health Organisation
    Health Topics, Country Profiles etc from list on left-hand side of the homepage.
    Regional Office for Europe: http://www.euro.who.int/

  • World Bank
    Click on "Countries" for information on many aspects of countries health & economy.

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