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1. HEALTHmap: Global Disease Alert Map
   Aggregates data from news and health information sources to provide a real-time map of emerging infectious diseases. View all disease alerts by country, or limit results to specific diseases or information source. Includes a feed of the latest alerts.
   03-03-2008 : google maps, health, infectious diseases, maps, mashup, travel
2. Statistical Resources on the Web
   Covers agriculture, business, consumers, cost of Living, demographics, economics, energy, environment, finance and currency, foreign economics, foreign governments, foreign trade, government finances, health, housing, labor, military, politics, science, s
   03-03-2008 : agriculture, business, consumers, cost of living, currency, demographics, economics, energy, environment, finance, foreign economics, foreign governments, foreign trade, government finances, health, housing, industry, labor, military, politics, science, sociology, statistics, transportation, weather
3. Globalis - an interactive world map
   "Globalis is an interactive world atlas where you decide what is to be displayed on the map. Globalis aims to create an understanding for similarities and differences in human societies, as well as how we influence life on the planet. This is primarily do
   03-03-2008 : agriculture, climate, economy, education, environment, gender equality, health, human development, land use, maps, population, poverty gap ratio, statistics, technology, water
4. Intute: Statistics and Data
   “Intute: Statistics provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet.”
   03-03-2008 : area statistics, educational institutions, educational outcomes, elections, environment, finance, health, housing, international indicators, land, markets, migration, national indicators, nutrition, population, public opinion, social attitudes and behaviour, socio-economic studies, statistical theory, statistics
5. POPLINE
   “Your connection to the world's reproductive health literature.”
   03-03-2008 : adolescent pregnancy, adolescents, advocacy, age at first intercourse, aids and men, aids and women, antiretroviral therapy, behavior change, breastfeeding, condoms, contraceptive security, counseling, entertainment education, family planning, family planning logistics, family planning methods, female condom, female genital cutting, gender and development, health, hiv/aids prevention, iec, interpersonal communication, iuds, malaria, maternal and neonatal health, men, men as partners, microbicides, natural family planning, oral contraceptives, population and environment, quality of care, reproduction, reproductive health, reproductive health issues, safer sex, stds, violence against women
6. Virtual Library of Sustainable Development and Environmental Health
   Covers health promotion, social determinants of health, millennium development goals, healthy settings, risk assessment and management, basic sanitation, food security and nutritional INCAP.
   03-03-2008 : basic sanitation, food security, health, health promotion, healthy settings, millennium development goals, nutritional incap, risk assessment, risk management, social determinants of health
7. CEPALSTAT: Latin America and The Caribbean Statistics
   Has the Social Indicators and Statistics (BADEINSO) database. After selecting criteria, at the bottom right of the window, click on either Excel (for a chart you can save and open) or HTML (which will show on the screen).
   03-03-2008 : caribbean, demography, economy, education, employment, health, housing, income distribution, latin america, millennium development goals (mdgs), poverty, statistics, wages
8. United Nations Common Database (UNCDB)
   “UNCDB provides selected series from numerous specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas.”
   03-03-2008 : agriculture, balance of payments, communication, construction, consumption, culture, development assistance, disabilities, distribution of population, economics, education, energy, environment financial statistics, families, fertility, fishing, forestry, geography, health, health services, households, housing, human settlements, impairment, income, industrial production, intellectual property, international finance, international tourism, international trade, marital status, men, migration, millennium development goals (mdg), mining, national accounts, nutrition, population composition, prices, public order, quarrying, safety, science, services industries, social mobility, social security, socio-economic groups, statistical yearbook (syb), statistics, technology, transport, wealth, welfare services, women
9. East African Development Library
   A virtual library in which you can browse by subject or organization or also search by particular words, title, subject or organization.
   03-03-2008 : africa, agriculture, breeding, communication, community development, culture, economic development, education, energy, environment, financing, fishing, food, health, history, human development, indigenous knowledge, marketing, natural resources, ngos, science, social development, state and civil service, technology, water
10. EL@ND: Research for Development
    “EL@ND provides a single search to 11 catalogues of development information. It has multilingual support to retrieve articles in resources catalogued throughout Europe.”
    02-21-2008 : administration, africa, agriculture, america, asia, central america, culture, education, environment, europe, finance, health, industry/technology, information, international development, intl. cooperation, labour, north america, pacific islands, population, society, south, trade, transport
11. AIDSinfo: Offering Information on HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention, and Research by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    Has guidelines, information on drugs and clinical trials, vaccines, related health topics, and tools to help, including a listserve to discuss issues.
    02-21-2008 : aids, health, hiv/aids, medicine
12. Intute: Advanced Search
    “... a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research.... Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database cont
    02-21-2008 : african, agricultural, american, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, archives, arts, asia, astronomy, australasian, australia, beauty, biomedical ethics, bioresearch, business, catering, celtic, chemistry, chinese, classics, communications, comparative literature, computing, conservation, culture, design, earth sciences, eastern european, ecology, economics, engineering, english studies, environment, european, fashion, food, forestry, french, geography, german, government, health, hispanic, history, history and philosophy of science, history of medicine, hospitality, humanities, italia, japanese, latin american, law, leisure, libraries, life sciences, linguistics, management, manuscript studies, mathematics, media, medicine, middle eastern, midwifery, modern languages, museums, music, natural history, nursing, performing arts, philosophy, physics, politics, portuguese, psychology, religions, research methods, research tools, russian, scandinavian, science, science engineering, slavonic, social sciences, social welfare, sociology, south asian, sports, statistics, technology, theology, tourism, travel, vetinerary, visual arts, women
13. Eldis Resource Guides
    A development gateway divided into subjects. “The aim of our resource guides is to bring together information from our databases and to present it for quick access. Each of the guides is overseen by an editor or editorial team.”
    02-20-2008 : ageing populations, agriculture, biodiversity, children, climate change, corporate social responsibility, debt, debt relief, education, finance policy, food security, forestry, gender, globalization, governance, health, health systems, hiv/aids, humanitarian aid, ict for development, influencing policy, international development, international monetary fund (imf), ipr, participation, pastoralism, questioning development, tourism, trade policy, world bank, young people, youth
14. GeoData.gov: U.S. Maps & Data by USA.gov
    A geographic information system (GIS) portal "designed to facilitate communication and sharing of geographic data and resources to enhance government efficiency and improve citizen services." Has key resources for atmosphere and climate, business, and hum
    02-15-2008 : atmosphere, business, climate, geo data, geographic information systems, geography, gos, health, hurricanes, weather
15. World Health Day by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library of the United Nations (UN)
    Collection of links to sites related to World Health Day. "On this day around the globe, thousands of events mark the importance of health for productive and happy lives." Also includes links to recent UN documents on the subjects of human health and illn
    02-15-2008 : government promotion, hammarskjold: dag, health, patient education
16. First Aid in Pictures
    Click on the arrows to work your way through this manual. If you do not see writing on the page, click on the icon in the empty box beneath the pictures, and the writing will appear.
    02-15-2008 : community development, disaster preparedness, emergency management, first aid, health
17. UNAIDS by The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
    Seeks to prevent the spread of HIV, provide care and support for those infected and affected by the disease, reduce the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviate the socioeconomic and human impact of the epidemic.
    02-15-2008 : aids, health, hiv/aids
18. Librarians’ Internet Index: Statistics
    A well-organized starting point for reliable, librarian-selected Internet resources.
    02-14-2008 : adoption, aeronautics, agriculture, almanacs, automobiles: statistics, bankruptcy, cancer, censuses, children, computers, crime, demographic surveys, design statistics, dictionaries, disabled, economic conditions, economics, education, geography, health, internet design and management, labor, library libraries, mathematics, media, military statistics, population trends, power resources, quality of life, ratings of cities and towns, religion, sampling, school districts, statistics, television, transportation, u.s. states, united states, violence, youth
19. World Environment Library by The New Zealand Digital Library
    "400 publications (45,000 pages) of ideas and solutions in the fields of Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Energy, Health, Natural Resources, Policy, Sustainable Development, Waste Management and Water."
    02-14-2008 : agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, digital libraries: new zealand, energy, environmental impact assessment, environmental sciences studies, environmental sciences: research, health, natural resources, policy, sustainable development, the new zealand digital library, waste management and water
20. Amnesty International Library: Health and Human Rights
    A description of the problem and what Amnesty International is doing about it.
    01-27-2008 : amnesty international, health, human rights

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