Public Health/Infectious Disease Resources

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~djan/infdis.html

Dictionaries

On-line Medical Dictionary

Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary from MEDLINEplus

Background/Overview Information

Communicable Diseases from the Pan American Health Organization

Diseases & Conditions from Health Canada

Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics from the Karolinska Institutet University Library

Infectious Disease Information from CDC National Center for Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases from the World Health Organization

MEDLINEplus from the National Library of Medicine

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

Indexes to Primary Research Literature

IndMED (1985-2003)

Native Health Databases (1652-2003)

PubMed (1953-2003)

World Health Organization Regional Databases

Statistical Resources

CDR Weekly from the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Health Protection Agency, UK

Eurosurveillance

Health from Statistics Canada

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System from Communicable Disease Australia

ProMED-mail

Weekly Epidemiological Record from the World Health Organization

Finding Subject Experts

CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service

ClinicalTrials.gov

CRISP (1972-2003) from the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health

Inside the News Room

MedNews Expert

Newswise Contact Directory

State and Territorial Epidemiologists/State and Territorial Chronic Disease Epidemiologists from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

University of California News Room

Current Awareness Resources

American Public Health Association News Releases

EurekAlert!

Google News

MedNews

PubCrawler

Public Health and Infectious Diseases Readings

Emerging Infectious Diseases (journal)

Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century (2002)

Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response (2003)

Public Health Classical Texts

Public Health Systems and Emerging Infections: Assessing the Capabilities of the Public and Private Sectors: Workshop Summary (2000)

Report on Infectious Diseases. World Health Organization. (journal)

Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (2002)

Other selected sites

Evaluating Health Information from MEDLINEplus

Hardin MD of Internet Health Sources from the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa

Kaiser Health Poll Report

Public Health/Medical Images Resources from the Public Health Library, UC Berkeley

Public Health Sites - By Country from Rollins School of Public Health. Emory University

Open Access Collections (free electronic full-text content)

Journal Collections

BioMed Central

Directory of Open Access Journals

FreeMedicalJournals.com

Highwire Collections

Book Collections

National Academies Press Books

PubMed Bookshelf

University of California Press eScholarship Editions