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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

ImmunoFacts.com - Expert Immunization resources

ImmunoFacts

One of the most up-to-date resource on Immunological practices. The following are the site features.

Vaccine Recommendations

This section is divided in to three sub-sections, viz General recommendations for vaccination from CDC, notes on vaccine preventable diseases and information about vaccine trials.


Practice and Safety

Discuss the quality standards of immunologicals and tips to improve vaccination coverage in different scenarios.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Occupational Health Factsheets

Occupational Health

Collection of freely downloadable PDF files on almost all occupational diseases. The information in the fact sheets are included with actual occupational scenarios in mind, hence provide a more practical approach than a typical textbook approach.
The different topics covered include Occupational asthma, occupational cancers, prevention of communicable diseases at work, working with pesticides etc.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

CDC - Centre for diseaes control

CDC for Health Care Providers
The above link provide direct access to the resources for health care providers which contain a vast number of topics like Vaccines and Immunization, Community Health Guide, Genomics in Public Health, Emerging infectious diseases etc.

CDC A-Z index
Index of all the health topics in the CDC website. Contains info on practice guidelines, diseases, procedures etc. You can access Diseases and conditions directly.

World Health Organization

WHO

This one resource no introduction even to a non-professioal person. As the primary agency for disease control, disease prevention and health promotion activities, WHO designs the protocols to be followed worldwide.

WHO Health Topics


Lists WHO Projects, initiatives, activities, information products organized by Health Topic. You can also use the search function to avail the specific information (Eg guidelines for management of neonatal tetanus) you seek.

Data and Statistics

This is the WHO's point of access to the world health statistics. Every piece of data made available to WHO is available here in a very organized manner

Evidence Based Guidelines

WHO defines guidelines as recommendations that can impact upon health policies or clinical interventions. Development of recommendations are one of the major functions of WHO. Here are the list of the most recent guidelines listed in the alphabetical order.



Contains key WHO books including World Health Report, World Health Statistics, International Classification of diseases, International Pharmacopoeia etc. All of these are available for online reference.
Eg Access the International Pharmacopoeia here

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