Educational Resources

May 3, 2005 by Postgraduate Editor

This page provides links to sites that offer resources for Global Health-related subjects.

• Journal Library
• Web resources
• The Elective Pack: essential international health and development

We profile international health journals, including their most recent papers in our Journal Library

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Useful Resources

UNAIDS, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS contains UNAIDS documents, news reports, updates, case studies.

The Global Fund was created to finance a dramatic turn-around in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. These diseases kill over 6 million people each year, and the numbers are growing. Provides resources on these conditions and information on their recipients, partners and their frameworks.

The International Development Research Centre has free e-books on international health and development issues available in a number of languages.

The UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development is an umbrella organization of some 70 organizations, mainly nongovernmental ones, based in the UK, concerned with AIDS and development.
If you go to the 'Our members' link at the top, you will find the organizations listed, with further links to many of them, and descriptions of their work on AIDS.

Demographic & Health Surveys provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition.

EASE International is a health economics consultancy with a focus on developing countries and countries in transition. Provide useful links and news on Health Economics, Development, HIV/AIDS, Malaria & TB.

International AIDS Economics Network focuses on the economics of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, providing data, tools, and analysis for researchers and policymakers working to define and implement effective AIDS policy.

Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division Resource Centre is a unique source of socio-economic HIV/AIDS-related information at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

The Leeds Health Education Database is an ongoing research project for a computer-based data-base of evaluated health education and promotion interventions in developing countries.

Health for Some: Death, Disease and Disparity in a Globalizing Era: An e-book compiled by Ronald Labonte, Ted Schrecker and Amit Sen Gupta, Health for Some: Death, Disease and Disparity in a Globalizing Era is a tour through the winners and losers of health in an accelerating globalising world.

Eldis is an information gateway for development issues, linking to thousands of publications and news stories and websites. An good starting point for researching a topic in global health.

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The Elective Pack:
a medical student's guide to international health and development
This pack, published by UCL's International Health and Medical Education Centre aims to give students the lowdown on essential topics in global health. It includes topics on infectious diseases, conflict and health, access to essential medicines as well as practical advice on planning elective work overseas.

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See our Links page for more international health links and resources.

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