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Collection of material on the life of Dr John Snow, an esteemed figure in the history of public health, epidemiology, and anaesthesiology. Includes a biography of Snow, information about his early years, medical education, and death, together with coverage of 'Snow on Cholera' and 'On the Mode of Communication of Cholera' (1855).
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Information about malaria trends, epidemiological data, geographical distribution and disease control activity. In 1997, malaria risk of varying degrees existed in 100 countries and territories and over 40% of the world population lived in areas with malaria risk.
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Journal of The Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene and the Society of Public Health. Provides international coverage of preventive medicine, epidemiology, social and community medicine. Key areas include child health, communicable disease prevention, health promotion and health service planning. Abstracts and full text available online.
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Aims to foster international collaborations between tuberculosis researchers. Includes a message board, a summary of research and access to software developed for use in molecular epidemiologic studies.
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Online course designed to provide an overview on epidemiology and the Internet for medical and health related students around the world. The course consists of a series of annotated slide based lectures on topics such as disease monitoring, health economics, malaria, nutrition and global health.
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Society investigating the science of exposure analysis related to environmental contaminants, both for human populations and ecosystems. Features the official journal of the society: the Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology.
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Journal covering research on the microbiological aspects of human and animal infections and infestations, with emphasis on their etiologic agents, diagnosis, and epidemiology. Abstracts and tables of contents available.
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Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to public health and epidemiology.
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Information about hepatitis with a bias towards the United States. Includes information on hepatitis C for health care workers, epidemiology and prevention of viral hepatitis A to E, and prevention of hepatitis A through active or passive immunisation.
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Current awareness service providing bibliographic details of resources relating to the prevention, control, epidemiology, viral composition, and structure of influenza. Archived issues of the bibliography are held from 1993 onwards.
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IARC's mission is to coordinate and conduct research on the causes of human cancer, and to develop scientific strategies for cancer control. The Agency is involved in epidemiological and laboratory research, and disseminates scientific information through meetings, publications, courses and fellowships.
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Index of links to epidemiology resources. Includes infectious diseases, hospital, molecular, behavioural and environmental epidemiology, diabetes, publications, newsgroups and mailing lists, government agencies, universities and professional societies.
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Topics explored by AJHG include behavioural genetics, biochemical genetics, clinical genetics, cytogenetics, dysmorphology, genetic counselling, immunogenetics, and population genetics and epidemiology. Tables of contents available.
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Department concentrating on health promotion through various means. Includes links to information on occupational and environmental health, violence prevention, ageing and health and Alzheimer's disease.
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