[e-drug] Introducing Essential Health Links at AED-SATELLIFE

["Leela McCullough" <leela@healthnet.org>]

E-DRUG: Introducing Essential Health Links at AED-SATELLIFE
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On August 10, 2007, Essential Health Links joined the HealthNet News suite of information resources and global forums supported by AED-SATELLIFE at 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 entrée 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
Email: hnet@healthnet.org
  
About the AED-SATELLIFE Center for Health Information and Technology:
 
Committed to addressing the issues of information poverty and the digital divide, AED-SATELLIFE uses technology to disseminate information and foster global conversations about health, and works to build the capacity of health professionals and health systems in resource-poor nations to apply information and communication technology to the challenges of healthcare delivery. 

AED-SATELLIFE produces four electronic publications, HealthNet News, HealthNet News-AIDS, HealthNet News-Community Health, and HealthNet News-Nursing, which provide current evidence-based, peer-reviewed articles from 60 of the world?s leading medical publishers.  It operates 11 global, expert-moderated discussion groups covering topics ranging from HIV/AIDS to African health research and development.  AED-SATELLIFE is a non-profit organization.


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Leela McCullough, Ed.D.
Director of Information Services

AED-SATELLIFE Center for Health Information and Technology
30 California Street, Watertown, MA 02472, USA
Tel: +617-926-9400    Fax: +617-926-1212
Email: lmccullough@aed.org
Web: http://www.healthnet.org