LibGuides: ANTH 0300 Culture & Health: US & intergovernmental health organizations

US public health organizations

USA.gov
U.S. government's official web portal intended to make it easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web. (General Services Administration)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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CDC.gov provides health professionals, researchers, and the public with credible, reliable health information on:

Data and Statistics
Diseases and Conditions
Emergencies and Disasters
Environmental Health
Healthy Living
Injury, Violence and Safety
Life Stages and Populations
Travelers' Health
Workplace Safety and Health
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the world's largest biomedical research agency, supporting and conducting medical research.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NCI is the National Institutes of Health (NIH) institute devoted to the study of cancer. The NIH is the United States federal agency dedicated to medical research and discovery.
Kaiser Global Health Policy
The Foundation's global health policy work focuses on providing the latest data and information on the U.S. role in global health to offer a comprehensive picture of the U.S. global health policy landscape, focusing on key issues facing policymakers, journalists, non-governmental organizations and others working in the global health arena.

International & intergovernmental health

WHO - World Health Organization
You may browse by country, access online publications and reports, and retrieve statistical information on various health issues around the globe.
CountrySTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
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The national version of FAOSTAT, CountrySTAT, is being developed and implemented in a number of target countries, primarily in sub-saharan Africa and some Asian nations. It offers a two-way data exchange facility between countries and FAO as well as a facility to store data at the national and sub-national levels.
International Development Research Centre
The IDRC Digital Library provides the international research community with access to a current and comprehensive collection of research results and documents about a wide range of subjects related to international development.

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The IDRC Digital Library is an open access repository of research results and documents generated by IDRC-funded projects, IDRC funding recipients, and IDRC staff.
The IDRC Digital Library includes
-Final technical reports (from IDRC projects)
-Theses
-Articles written by IDRC-supported researchers and IDRC staff
-Books written by IDRC-supported researchers and IDRC staff
-Workshop reports
-Conference proceedings
-Evaluation reports
PAHO (Pan-American Health Organization)
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System and as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization.
UN Millennium Development Goals
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions.

Evaluating health information on the Web (NIH)

How to Evaluate Health Information on the Internet, NIH