Open Access for Africa: Reports & Databases

Features guidelines and recommendations by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention

This global status report is the second in a triennial series tracking worldwide progress in prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The majority of NCDs are preventable. This report gives encouraging evidence that premature NCD deaths can indeed be significantly reduced worldwide.

GHO issues analytical reports on the current situation and trends for priority health issues. A key output of the GHO is the annual publication World Health Statistics, which compiles statistics for key health indicators on an annual basis.

is document is written primarily for the community of international development partners, as well as those in government and civil society concerned with urgent action to address the rapidly increasing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle -income countries and its serious implications for poverty reduction and economic development.

The report features information about the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) situation in 193 countries. This includes details of what proportion of each country's deaths are due to diseases such as cancer, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes.

Features WHO Reports and Publications on Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion.

The report describes a financial planning tool for scaling up delivery of a set of cost-effective population-based and individual-level health care interventions in low- and middle-income countries.

Specifically, the survey collects data on the following: fertility levels, marriage, sexual activity, fertility preferences, awareness and use of family planning methods, breastfeeding practices, nutritional status of women and young children, childhood and maternal mortality, maternal and child health, malaria and use of mosquito nets, domestic violence, awareness and behaviour regarding HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and HIV prevalence among adults.

UpToDate has in its chest more than 385,000 references and a drug database. It offers access to healthcare professionals working in resource-limited settings. Following the link above takes you to UpToDate International Grant Subscription Program.

After a simple, 1-time free registration (taking less than 5 minutes), opens to you some of the key features of Medscape i.e.: Original, professional medical content, including review articles, journal commentary, expert columns, patient education articles, book reviews, and more.

PubMed citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Although PubMed does not include full text journal articles, many full text articles can be accessed for free.

GHDonline is rich in professional discussions. To access GHDonline content you need to sign up a free account, a process that takes less than 5 minutes . follow the link above for guidance on how to create an individual free account.

HINARI facilitates access to articles published by major publishers such as Blackwell and Elsevier Science. Follow the link above to access the registration portal.

The Global Cancer Observatory (GCO) is an interactive web-based platform presenting global cancer statistics to inform cancer control and cancer research.

DASH is a central, open-access repository of research by members of the Harvard community.

eMedicine is an open access comprehensive medical textbook with over 6500 articles, and 10,000 contributors. The eMedicine point-of-care clinical reference features up-to-date, searchable, peer-reviewed medical articles organized in specialty-focused textbooks.

ISPUB is an open access publisher and offers free access to over 90 medical peer-reviewed journals for any interested reader.

Hindawi publishes more than 300 Open Access journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines.

A free online library of medical information and toolkits aimed at improving the quality of healthcare in humanitarian action, worldwide.

InTech is a pioneer and world's largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Since 2004, InTech has collaborated with more than 86575 authors and published 2443 books and 6 journals with the aim of providing free online access to high-quality research and helping leading academics to make their work visible and accessible to diverse new audiences around the world.