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Essential Drugs: Practical Guidelines
International Drug Price Indicator Guide
Merck Manuals
WHO Model List of Essential Drugs
www.refbooks.msf.org/MSF_Docs/En/Essential_drugs/ED_en.pdf
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Essential drugs from Medecins
sans Frontieres is an excellent
resource for health practitioners in
low-income countries.
The International Drug Price Indicator
Guide lists prices from pharmaceutical
suppliers, international development
organizations, and government agencies.
Access is by Name, Letter or Therapeutic
Class. It is published by Management
Sciences for Health.
The Merck Manual Online is
not only a tool for drug
information but an extensive
resource for symptoms and
treatments of many disorders.
The WHO Models Lists of Essential
Medicines gateway is a useful resource
for hospitals, clinics and especially
governmental procurement agencies.
Public Health
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
Health Library for Disasters
Merck Manuals
Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet
and Global Health
Emergency Infectious Diseases is an
open access e-journal from the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (USA). It focuses on
numerous issues of value to health
practitioners in low-income countries.
The Health Library for Disasters is
an excellent source for resources
on this topic. See the subject
listing for general topics. There
also is a keyword search option.
The Health Manager’s Toolkit is
a useful resource for
governmental agencies and
other health planning groups.
The Supercourse is a repository of
over 5000 lectures on global health
and prevention with many related to
public health topics. It is a useful
tool for lecturers and students.
Tropical Medicine & Infectious Diseases
• Evidence-Based Tuberculosis Diagnosis
• Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp:
links to selected websites
• Neglected Tropical Diseases: Targeted
Diseases
• WHO: Disease Outbreak News
This the Evidence-Based
Tuberculosis Diagnosis is an
online resource for evidence,
policies and research on TB
diagnostics.
The Institute of Tropical Medicine
Antwerp Library has developed
this gateway of numerous tropical
medicine and infectious diseases
resources on the Internet.
The Neglected Tropical Diseases
Program has information on several
Targeted (neglected) Diseases that
could be minimized or eliminated with
proper eradication projects.
The WHO’s Diseases
Outbreak News tracks such
outbreaks worldwide with
almost daily news items.
Managing Internet Resources
• Bookmarks
– What is a Bookmark?
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Favorites
• Internet Explorer
In Mozilla Firefox, we have
opened the Bookmarks
feature. We will click on
Bookmark This Page.
In Mozilla Firefox, we are
adding the PubMed link to
Bookmarks (or Favorites in
Internet Explorer). You can
change the name of the link
and must click on Done.
When you select Bookmarks or
Favorites from the tool bar, you
can see that your page has been
added to the list. To return to the
website, click on the name.
This is the end of Module 1.3 Part B
There is a Work Book to accompany this part of
the module. The workbook will take you through
a live session covering the topics included in this
demonstration with working examples.
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