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Websites of Interest PARTNERS WHO-IV&B Centers for Disease Control & Prevention(CDC) PATH Gates Foundation Sabin Vaccine Institute Pneumo-ADIP World Bank   NEW VACCINES AND HEALTH PRIORITIES WHO - New vaccines and technologies WHO - Vaccine introduction Guidelines. Adding a vaccine to a national immunization programme: decision and implementation. WHO/IVB/05.18. 2005. WHO, Geneva. The Disease Control Priorities Project: An ongoing effort to assess disease control priorities and produce evidence-based analysis and resource materials to inform health policymaking in developing countries Copenhagen Consensus: Through the commissioning and conveying of research, we work to improve the foundation for prioritizing between various efforts to mitigate the consequences of the World's biggest challenges. In particular we focus on the international community's effort to solve the World's biggest challenges and how to do this in the most cost-efficient manner. Globocan The International Agency for Research in Cancer has developed a global cancer database, GLOBOCAN, which is an excellent resource for data on cervical cancer incidence and mortality. This database, which is organized both by sub-regions and countries, provides information on numbers of cases and deaths by age with age standardized rates. It also facilitates the compilation and production of tables and graphs.   ECONOMIC ANALYSIS CHOosing Interventions that are Cost Effective (WHO-CHOICE): WHO-CHOICE assembles regional databases on the costs, impact on population health and cost-effectiveness of key health interventions. It also provides a contextualization tool which makes it possible to adapt regional results to the country level. Cost Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Registry: Public electronic access to a comprehensive database of cost-effectiveness ratios in the published literature. Its goals are to find opportunities for targeting resources to save lives and improve health and to move towards standardization of cost-effectiveness methodology in the field. NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED): NHS EED has been funded by the Departments of Health of England and Wales to assist decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses. NHS EED saves decision-makers time that might have been spent searching for studies in databases such as MEDLINE and EMBASE.   HEALTH LITERATURE SEARCH AND EVIDENCE BIREME (the Latin America and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information) BVS - Virtual Health Library: In addition to the objectives that can be attributed to the Center by resolution of the Pan American Health Organization's Governing Bodies, BIREME's objective is the promotion of technical cooperation in scientific and technical health information with the countries and among the countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean (REGION), aiming to develop the means and the capacities for the provision and the equitable access to the relevant and up-to-date scientific and technical health information, rapidly, efficiently and at adequate costs. SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature, contributing to overcome the phenomena known as "lost science". In addition, the SciELO model comprises integrated procedures for the measurement of usage and impact of scientific journals. SciELO Model is product of a partnership among FAPESP - the State of São Paulo Science Foundation, BIREME - the Latin America and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, as well as national and international institutions related to scientific communication and editors. Since 2002, the Project is also supported by CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico. PubMed: PubMed was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature through bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE. MEDLINE is the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 14 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's . Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. SUMsearch: SUMSearch is a unique method of searching for medical evidence by using the Internet, combining meta-searching and contingency searching in order to automate searching for medical evidence. Free Online Medical Journals: The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. 1450 Journals are available, sorted by language of publication, title of journal and specialty. Over the next few years, many important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. Cochrane Collaboration: The Cochrane Collaboration is committed to summarising and providing evidence on the effects of interventions using systematic review methods, focusing on reviews of the effects of health care interventions.   JOURNALS Bulletin of the World Health Organization, special issue on economics of immunization: Volume 82, Number 9, September 2004, 639-718 The BMJ series of Economics Notes Cost-Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (periodico en línea) Medical Decision-Making Commission on macroeconomics and health: Discussion papers summarizing evidence on cost-effectiveness of health interventions in low/middle income countries Vaccines and Immunization — Human Papillomavirus - Immunization Safety - Measles - Neonatal Tetanus - Polio/Laboratory Containment - ProVac - Rotavirus - Rubella - Vaccination Week

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