[WSIS CS-Plenary] Introducing Essential Health Links at AED-SATELLIFE

[Lady Murrugarra]

Introducing Essential Health Links at AED-SATELLIFE


On August 10, 2007, Essential Health Links joined the HealthNet News
suite
of information resources and global forums supported by AED-SATELLIFE 
at
< http://www.healthnet.org/. Providing easy access to a  wealth of
information for health professionals, medical library communities, 
universities, students, publishers, and NGOs in developing and emerging
countries, Essential Health Links serves as a gateway to carefully
evaluated and expertly vetted medical, scientific, and public health
websites.

EH-Links provides users with a linked list of health and
medical-related
web pages relevant to clinical and public health practice or research
in
developing and emerging countries with the objective of making it 
easier
to locate and identify useful information. Before being included as an
EH-Link, each website is evaluated for reliability, relevance, and
usefulness by experts in the field, including a physician-editor and an 
international team of Subject Expert Advisors.  Website links are
checked
and content carefully reviewed on a regular basis.

Emphasizing quality over quantity, EH-Links has selected only 700 sites
out of the many thousands on the web. In addition, each webpage 
recommendation includes an annotated description of the site written by
a
health information specialist to guide the user to the best information
sources.

Adapted for international use from a gateway originally provided by the 
University of Zambia School of Medicine Library, EH-Links was developed
in
conjunction with Lenny Rhine, Ph.D., University Librarian Emeritus,
University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries.  With the
collaboration of Dr. Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Essential Health Links was
restructured and enhanced in 2002 and has received INASP's generous
support since that time. Now welcomed to AED-SATELLIFE, Essential
Health 
Links offers health professionals in resource-constrained areas of the
world entrE9e to information on evidence-based medicine, full text
journals, image collections, medical education, clinical and public
health 
topics, upcoming conferences, and much more!

Please visit Essential Health Links at
http://www.healthnet.org/essential-links/ . We invite your participation
in
the continued development of this
resource and welcome your feedback and suggestions of additional useful
sites!

Kind regards,
AED-SATELLIFE
Center for Health Information and Technology 



       
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