Transcript Gateways & Portals We previously looked at this Health topics page. Since it directs users to material within the WHO website, it serves.

Gateways & Portals
We previously looked at this Health topics
page. Since it directs users to material within
the WHO website, it serves as a portal.
We have accessed the Library and Information
Networks for Knowledge Databases page. We
will click on the Access WHOLIS link.
We have opened the initial page of
the World Health Organization
(WHO) website. We will examine the
contents in the left-column frame.
Note: for all the WHO sites, the
slides will include the site’s url or web
address.
We have entered a keyword search
bednets AND malaria and will click on
Search. Other search options include
author, title, subject, series, periodical
title plus library, language, format, type,
location and publication years.
The bednets AND malaria search located 14 titles. 7
have a Full Text Link. We have clicked on Keep for 4
articles and the box has changed to Remove. This gives
us the option to save or e-mail these citations. We now
will click on the Full Text Link for the first article.
This is the PDF version of the article
retrieved by clicking on the Full Text Link.
From the original Search results page, we have clicked on
the Try these too... Option of Antimalarials. The results for
this search are 381 titles. Note the Try these too...
suggestion for this search.
We now will examine the WHO Statistical
Information Systems (WHOSIS) website. We
will click on Customized Search/Select from a
list of regions/countries, indicators and time
periods and locate statistics about Jamaica.
We have checked the box for Jamaica on the
Regions/countries page and will proceed to Indicators
Note that you can browse by Browse by a region.
We have checked the boxes for the World Agestandardized mortality rates for cancer, cardiovascular
disease, injuries and non-communicable diseases
Indicators. Finally, we will proceed to the Time period page.
Note that you can Browse by an indicator category.
We have displayed the results for the
four Indicators and Jamaica.
We have opened the WHO Global InfoBase,
another Data and Statistics resource that
contains information about chronic diseases
and their risk factors. Again, we will search
for statistics on Jamaica.
This slide has displayed the Country
Collected Data on the various chronic
disease surveys for Jamaica. Note the
various search tools for this database.
The Global Health Library (GHL) is another database of
WHO and a source for reliable Internet health
information. We have entered a search for swine flu and
clicked on Regional Indexes option and Search . The
GHL also contains links to Global and Regional Indexes.
This search has displayed 238 Results with
options for accessing the documents .
We have entered the initial page of Bireme’s
Virtual Health Library. This gateway contains
numerous Information Sources and we will
look at the Evidence Portal . Note the
keyword Search bar that allows you to limit
your search to specific indexes and sources.
We have clicked on the Information Sources
Evidence Portal. In the Search box, the Results
are 16941 citations for Systematic reviews. You
could add specific keywords or, access all or some
of the indices to this Systematic reviews search.
We have opened the Information Sources
Evidence Portal articles. This time, in the Search
box, we have limited the search to Clinical Practice
Guidelines and the Results are 2381 citations.
Again, you can could add specific keywords or,
access all or some of the indices.
We have opened the initial page of Bireme’s
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO).
It is a gateway to online e-journals from
PAHO participating countries.
Note that you have Search article, Search by
journals, By alphabetical list and By Subject
options.
We have opened the Available issues of the West
Indian Medical Journal. We will click on the most
recent issue – Vol. 57, Issue 6. Note that you can
search by issues, author and subject.
We have opened the Table of
contents page for this issue of West
Indian Medical Journal. Note that the
full-text articles are available as text
in english (html) and pdf in english.
Highlighted Sites
We will view several Highlighted Sites – to examine
the scope of information produced by WHO and
WHO Regional Offices.
This initial example is the Health Library for
Disasters, a portal from the PAHO region. Note The
topics include list, the Search by keyword tool and
Desastres Journal.
We have opened the initial page of the WHO medicines
bookshelf 1.0 – the web version of a CD-ROM that consists
of 95 information resources primarily from the WHO Essential
Drugs and Medicines Department. Note the various ways
that you can search in this collection.
The WHO produces numerous useful publications. We are
viewing the initial page of the Weekly Epidemiological Record
(WER), a tool for the rapid and accurate dissemination of
disease outbreaks information. From this page, you can
access the current and previous WER reports.
Our final Highlighted Site is the 2009 Edition
of the International travel and health report.
Note all hyperlinked resources including
International Health Regulations, Diseases
Distribution Maps and Updates for Travellers.
This is the end of the WHO
Resources module.
There is a Work Book with
working examples that covers the
topics included in this module.
Updated 04 2010