International Health Information
United States Health Information ~ North Carolina Health Information
- Source: CDC
- Mission: foster health improvements by controlling diseases and injuries
- Contents: a Global Health site, with reports on specific countries; links to state health departments and other health resources, students and teacher health resources, press releases, fact sheets, full-text health publications, Traveler's Health contains disease outbreak updates and geographic health recommendations for countries around the world, and free access to CDC Wonder for statistics and health databases
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
- Source: IARC is part of the World Health Organization
- Mission: research cancer and examine methods of cancer control
- Contents: press releases, research unit descriptions, Cancer Mondial (information on the incidence of cancer worldwide and international resources).
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- Source: PAHO
- Mission: provides technical support to improve health and living standards and focuses on disease eradication, environmental protection, and sanitation improvements in the Americas
- Contents: press releases, Perspectives in Health Magazine, Table Generator System (Regional Core Health Data Initiative), Country Health Profiles (health risk indicators, special health problems), health programs, a general Health Data site, a Health Topics site, and a general Information Resources site which is more or less a site map for the PAHO.
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Source: WHO
- Mission: to help people attain their highest level of health
- Contents: World Health Organization Statistical Information System for international health statistics, Weekly Epidemiology Record for disease outbreak information, International Travel and Health, Global HIV/AIDS & STD Surveillance for international statistics, the WHO bulletin The International Journal of Public Health, and much more.
