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HOW TO USE THIS WEBSITE; A GUIDE FOR FIRST TIME USERS.

Sunday, 23rd of December 2012

If you are a student or health worker

Note the self-instructional items listed under public health training on this page, especially
www.globalhealthlearning.org . Click on the horizontal bar under the photographs for items on specific diseases and areas of interest, such as the Millennium Development Goals. Browse the subject headings or search box for updates within your area of interest. Click on successive page numbers to browse highly accessed items from previous months.

For items from your country, type the name of your country in the search box by the binoculars.

If you are a disease specialist

Go, for example, to the headings under measles, polio, malaria or HIV/AIDS. If yours is another specialty, type in your disease specialty in the search box by the binoculars.  HPV specialists, would type 'papillomavirus' into the search engine

If you are interested in neglected tropical diseases, your best starting point among the journals is the homepage of http://www.plosntds.org/static/scope.action

if your interest is malaria, your best starting point among the journals is www.malariajournal.com

All readers

Go to  http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020228 for a practical guide to medical searches on the Internet.

Use the search box, by the binoculars, to browse topics of interest, based on words appearing in the subject line of each update.

To do your own search, go to www.pubmed.gov and type your search item in the box. Be specific: if you are looking at the epidemiology of measles, type 'measles epidemiology,' not 'measles.' For Boolean searches by country, type, for example, 'measles AND Zambia.'  A complete tutorial for the use of Pubmed is available online at http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020228

The Pubmed page generates, in chronological order, all published citations. To view only review articles, or only open access articles, click where indicated on the left hand side of the page.

For a more detailed discussion of search engines, go to http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020228

GOING TO THE SOURCES

The sources below, with URL addresses, provide the majority of the updates on this site.
In addition to having websites, most also have an electronic table of contents which is periodically sent to persons requesting it.

 

Source	URL address
American Journal of Epidemiology	http://aje.oxfordjournals.org
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene	http://www.ajtmh.org
British Medical Journal	http://www.bmj.com
Bulletin of the World Health Organization	http://www.who.int/bulletin/en
Cochrane reviews, at www.cochrane.org	www.cochrane.org
Emerging Infectious Diseases	http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm
Eurosurveillance	http://www.eurosurveillance.org
International Journal of Epidemiology	http://ije.oxfordjournals.org
International Journal of Health Geographics	http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/7/1/31
Journal of Infectious Diseases	http://jid.oxfordjournals.org
Journal of Population, Health and Nutrition	http://www.icddrb.org/publication.cfm?classificationID=30
Journal of Population, Health and Nutrition	http://centre.icddrb.org/activity/index.jsp?activityObjectID=86
Malaria Journal	http://malariajournal.com
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report	http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr
New England Journal of Medicine	http://www.nejm.org
Pan African Medical Journal	http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com
National Bureau of Economic Research,	www.nber.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	http://www.pnas.org
PLOS Medicine	http://www.plosmedicine.org/home.action
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases	http://www.plosntds.org/home.action
South African Medical Journal	http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj
The Lancet	http://www.thelancet.com
The Lancet Infectious Diseases	http://www.thelancet.com
Tropical Medicine & International Health	http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1360-2276
Weekly Epidemiological Record	www.who.int/wer
www.globalhealthlearning.org	www.globalhealthlearning.org
www.ichrc.org	www.ichrc.org
www.malecircumcision.org	www.malecircumcision.org
www.measuredhs.com	www.measuredhs.com
www.pubmed.org	www.pubmed.org
www.technet21.org	www.technet21.org
www.ted.org	www.ted.org
www.who.int	www.who.int
www.wikipedia.org	www.wikipedia.org