General Links
- Professional associations and agencies
- University-based portals to internet resources on public health and health promotion
- Journals – core health promotion journals
- Journals – general health
- Bibliographic search tools
Professional associations and agencies
International Union for Health Education and Promotion is the leading global network for health promotion with international headquarters in Paris and with regional offices for Europe and other parts of the world. Its activities include hosting an international health promotion conference every three years, annual regional meetings and producing a newsletter Promotion and Education.
http://www.iuhpe.org/
Institute of Health Education. This serves as a focal point for health promotion in the United Kingdom and organizes conferences and produces the International Journal of Health Education and Health Promotion.
http://www.ihpe.org.uk
Society of Health Education and Health Promotion Specialists with useful information on strategic vision, principles of health promotion and the interface between health promotion and public health.
http://www.hj-web.co.uk/sheps/index.html
American Public Health Association. This has an extremely comprehensive links page for health education and health promotion.
http://www.apha.org/
Society of Public Health Education This is the main organization for health promotion in the United States. It has been in existence for more than 50 years and runs annual and regional conferences and a range of other activities which are described in a very comprehensive internet web site.
http://www.sophe.org/
Faculty of Public Health, UK
http://www.fphm.org.uk/
WHO global office.
http://www.who.int/en/
WHO regional office for Europe
http://www.euro.who.int/
EuroHealthnetis the network of health promotion and public health agencies in Europe. http://www.eurohealthnet.eu/
Health Education Board for Scotland has been absorbed into the NHS Health Scotland http://www.healthscotland.com/about/index.aspx
Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland http://www.healthpromotionagency.org.uk/index.html
University-based portals to internet resources on public health and health promotion
Hardin MD (Hardin Meta Directory) This site is a "directory of directories" for health and medicine. The site is maintained by Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/
MedlinePlus A consumer-oriented site that brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. The site is maintained by the NLM, USA http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
University of California, Berkeley, USA
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/
Harvard School of Public Health, USA
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
http://www.phs.ki.se/hprin/Default.htm,
Pitt University provides a valuable links page to resources that relate to public health worldwide, e.g. public health resources, electronic publications, databases http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/
Intute: Health and Life Sciences. A service is created by a network of UK universities and partners that proved a comprehensive set of links to evaluated Internet sites covering health and medicine.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Public Health Homepage of The World Wide Web Virtual Library: is a portal operated by the University of New South Wales, Australia and serves as an entry point to a wide range of web sites on public health. http://www.sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/sphcmweb.nsf/page/wwwvlph
Journals – core health promotion journals
American Journal of Health Promotion.
http://www.healthpromotionjournal.com/
Health Education (part of the Emerald Group) http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Journal&containerId=11108
Health Education and Behaviour (Formerly Health Education Quarterly) http://www.sph.umich.edu/hbhe/heb/
Health Education Journal.
http://www.hej.org.uk/
Health Education Research – Theory and Practice.
http://her.oxfordjournals.org/
Health Promotion Practice.
http://hpp.sagepub.com/
International Journal of Health Promotion
http://www.ldb.org/iuhpe/journal.htm
International Journal of Health Promotion and Education http://www.ihpe.org.uk/jour/index.htm
International Quarterly of Community Health Education. http://www.baywood.com/journals/PreviewJournals.asp?Id=0272-684x
Journal of Health Communication.
http://www.gwu.edu/~cih/journal/
Reviews of Health Promotion and Education Online- electronic journal produced by the International Union of Health Promotion.
http://www.rhpeo.org/
Patient Education and Counselling. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505955/description#description
Journals – general health
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com is a good overview site of what's available free, e.g. ‘Emerging Infectious Diseases’. It also lists many useful journals that are available after one or two years, e.g. ‘International Journal of Epidemiology’ after 2 years; ‘Health Promotion International’, ‘Health Policy and Planning’, ‘American Journal of Clinical Nutrition’, ‘British Journal of Ophthalmology’.
Bulletin of the World Health Organizationavailable full text. http://www.who.int/bulletin/en/
British Medical Journal offers full text access.
http://www.bmj.com/
Emerging Infectious Diseases is a journal with full text available online from CDC Atlanta.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/
International Family Planning Perspectives found at the website of the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
http://www.guttmacher.org/
The Lancet offers a search facility and full text access to subscribers. http://www.thelancet.com/
Bibliographic search tools
Ericis a major database of the education literature and a search will often produce material that it not in MEDLINE.
http://www.eduref.org/Eric/
The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings. http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd
POPLINE is a particularly useful resource in that it complements Medline by including journals that are not indexed in Medline and also newsletters and unpublished reports. There are also regularly updated bibliographies on a range of health topics. http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/
Africa Journals Online offers the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences, published in Africa.
http://www.ajol.info/
