Public Health Resources on the Internet

Part A: Useful Sites

The sites on this page contain potentially useful information relating to public health in the following categories:

• Public Health Unclassified - always worth a browse.
• Health Promotion
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Oral Health
• Mental Health
• Drug Abuse - includes tobacco.
• Health Administration/Policy/HIM
• Family and Consumer Studies
• Environmental & Occupational Health
• Communicable Diseases - includes immunisation.
• Medical Information - includes drugs.
• Food Safety, Food Science & Nutrition
• Free Medline Access
• Other

Public Health Unclassified

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contains a considerable amount of public health related information including Health Information, infectious diseases brochures and leaflets, Fact sheets, Travellers Health information, ABCs of Safe and Healthy Child Care, Publications & Products and the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (in acrobat & html format) and is now searchable. The CDC web site can be searched. CDC Wonder "provides a single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data".
• Combined Health Information Database allows you to search an retrieve catalogue-type information on publications and abstracts (where available).
• World Health Organization is well worth exploring, particularly WHO's Departments & Programmes. WHO's Fact Sheets are good too.
• Australian Department of Health and Aged Care.
  • Population Health Division has
    • consumer information
    • information for healthcare professionals
    • publications.
  • Online Publications
  • National Health & Medical Research Council
    • NH&MRC Publications
    • NH&MRC Research Grants information
    • GrantNet (NH&MRC grants)
  • Casemix information
  • 1999 Budget Information, 1998 Budget Information and 1997 Budget Information.
  • Department Media Releases are available.
• Queensland Health is an Australian state government department.
• Public Health Education and Research Program (PHERP) is an Australian funding body.
• National Public Health Partnership (Aust) allows Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments to come together to develop a joint Australian intergovernmental agenda for public health. Includes online publications and a newsletter.
• Australian Commonwealth Budget Information. Budget Information from an alternative site.
• The Prime Minister's (Aust) Home Page has press releases, speeches, interview transcripts etc.
• Queensland Government home page has links to various departments and agencies. Queensland Government Ministerial Statements can be searched. The Queensland Budget is available online. The Queensland Premier's web site has interview transcripts, speeches and other information. Queensland Legislation is available online.
• Gold Coast District Health Service (Aust).
• Australian Commonwealth Government Entry Point.
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare offers many high quality online publications including Australia's Health 1996, Australia's Health 1998 and the National Health Information Knowledgebase. Recommended.
• New South Wales Health Public Health Division.
• Northern Sydney Area Health Service Public Health and Health Outcomes Unit.
• Department of Human Services (Victoria) Public Health Branch. Includes a Topic Index to its growing collection of useful public health information. Worth a visit. For example, try Food handling and poisoning pamphlets.
• The Health Department of Western Australia has a growing amount of useful information.
• Centre for Primary Health Care (University of Queensland).
• US Department of Health and Human Services.
• New Zealand Ministry of Health.
• The New York State Department of Health has online information including Consumer Health Information such as Environmental Health and Communicable Diseases.
• Health Canada has information on Canadian Health.
• The United Kingdom Department of Health. The Public Health Group has a good amount of useful online information.
• Australian Health Online is a "health focused and market driven industry development service".
• HealthWorld has online information and links to other sources.
• The Social Science Information Gateway. A good search function is available.
• Health Communication Network is an Australian Internet provider specialising in health. It includes a Health Brochures page.
• The Public Health Association of Australia.
• The Australian Medical Association. Has news and speeches in the Australian Medicine area. Also has media releases and Health Economics information.
• Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (New Zealand).
• American Public Health Association.
• Health Stats Online from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (Aust).
• Australasian Epidemiological Association.
• CIN Health Room from the Australian Community Information Network has information on health care, health insurance, Government sickness/disability/welfare payments, mental health etc.
• Australian Health Online offers a virtual marketplace where users can source health and medical products and services.
• Ethnomed gives cultural and health profiles of various ethnic groups.
• The European Commission's Consumer Health Protection.
• Epidemiological software including the famous Epi Info is available from CDC.
• Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health is an online course on epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
• See also the Health Administration/Policy/HIM section below.
• National Academy of Science Online Health & Medicine Publications.
• National Information Service of the General Practice Evaluation Program (Aust).
• Public Health Unclassified Directories are other directories like this one that may be useful, but first scroll down to the more specific information sites below.

Health Promotion

• American College of Preventive Medicine. Includes Policy Statements.
• Put Prevention Into Practice (USA) - program to improve the prevention aspects of clinical practice.
• Health Promotion on the Internet from Monash University.
• Queensland Health Promoting Schools Network
• Australian Health Promoting Schools Association.
• Health Promotion Program Evaluation is an online course/unit from Indiana State University. Community Health Concepts, Community Health Research Methods and Community Health Practices are others.
• Victorian Health Promotion Foundation.
• Health Promotion Online from Health Canada.
• HealthPromis is the national health promotion database for England. Searchable.
• Health People 2010 identifies the most significant preventable threats to health and focuses public and private sector efforts to address those threats. US Govt.
• Institute of Health Promotion Research.
• Health Promotion Information Centre (UK govt).
• Community Health Promotion Network Atlantic (Canadian).
• Global Health Network.
• Federal Office of Road Safety (Aust).
• Road Safety for Queensland.
• The RACQ has lots of information about motoring such as Recall Notices.
• NRMA (Aust) has information about motoring including Road Safety and Crash Tests of cars sold in Australia. Crash Tests Results are also available from AAA.
• Safety Information about Passenger Cars from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Includes some crash tests.
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Includes considerable information on Traffic Safety & Occupant Protection including Injury Prevention, and Vehicle and Equipment Information which includes a Vehicle Recalls section (not browsable but searchable on specific vehicle details) and results of vehicle crash testing (USA vehicles only).
• Building Bridges Between Traffic Safety and Public Health. A newsletter in acrobat format is available.
• The Motor Accidents Authority has information on road safety.
• Free Health Risk Assessment from You First.
• National Injury Surveillance Unit (Aust) has a good selection of on-line information.
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
• Australian Injury Prevention Database.
• The Injury Prevention Internet Library is a fine collection of links to information on injury prevention.
• SaferSex.Org promotes safer sex.
• InfoCenter's Guide to Safer Sex.
• WWWilma the WWW Counsellor's Safe Sex information.
• Enjoying Safer Sex.
• Safer Sex from the University of Toronto.
• Condomania has some information on safe sex using condoms.
• Safe Sex Information and Education is a directory of safer sex information on the Internet.
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Healthy Cities.
• The Coalition for Healthier Cities and Healthy Communities.
• International Healthy Cities Foundation.
• The Change Project: Healthy Communities articles is a good collection.
• Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse has information on health promotion and community development. Includes good quality Online Publications.
• Other Directories for Health Promotion.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

• Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.
• Queensland Health offers the following online publications:
  • Status Report on the Health of Queensland's Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
  • Causes of Excess Deaths in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations. PDF format.
  • Causes of Excess Deaths in the Torres Strait. PDF format.
  • Queensland Summary of National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey 1994 . PDF format.
  • More Queensland Health online publications.
• Overview of Aboriginal Health Status in Queensland. Other publications dealing with aboriginal issues are available from the Reconciliation and Social Justice Library.
• Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council, Western Australia has information on aboriginal health issues.
• Koori Health Unit of the Victorian Government. Includes Koori Health Counts and Achieving Improved Aboriginal Health Outcomes: An Approach to Reform from the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Incorporated.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Database is a directory of indigenous peoples-related web sites.

Oral Health

• CDC's Oral Health Program. Includes the fact sheets like Fluoridation Fact Sheet and Toothbrush Procedures for Schools and Program Information as well.
• WHO's Oral Health Programme. Includes Oral Diseases and Global Goals. See also WHO Oral Health Country/Area Profile Programme of the WHO Collaborating Centre, Faculty of Odontology, Malmö, Sweden.
• Dental Amalgam and Mercury in Dentistry: Report of an NHMRC Working Party. Acrobat (PDF) format.
• Review of Water Fluoridation and Fluoride Intake from Discretionary Fluoride Supplements from the NH&MRC. Acrobat (PDF) format.
• Dental Public Health from the University of Michigan.
• The Dental Consumer Advisor.
• The Dental Site is for "everyone interested in improving their oral health and those who's profession it is to educate and care for the oral health of others". A good resource with lots of links.
• Dr Rod's PerioPage is "designed for dental professionals and students".
• The American Dental Hygienists' Association. Includes Consumer Information.
• Dental Hygiene Education. Includes the Dental Patient FAQ.
• The Wisdom Tooth has consumer information on dental hygiene.
• Dental ResourceNet. Includes Patient Education and Library Online. See also Preventive Oral Care.
• Oral Hygiene FAQ from Colgate.
• Dental Care FAQ.
• Mr Flossy's Dental Hygiene News.
• Preventive Dental Health Association. Appears to focus on perceived dangers of fluoride and mercury in dentistry/oral public health.
• Dental Health Publications from the Victorian Health Department (Aust).
• The Victorian School Dental Service: Child Dental Health Promotion Strategy 1995-2000
• Public Dental Services: Report of Senate Community Affairs References Committee (Aust govt).
• Behavioral Sciences and Health Services Research Group of the International Association for Dental Research.
• American Association of Public Health Dentistry.
• The American Dental Association. Includes Patient and Consumer Information.
• The British Dental Association. Includes Fact Files.
• Australian Dental Association. Includes Dental Health Information.
• FDI World Dental Federation.
• Other Oral Health Directories.

Mental Health

• National Mental Health Strategy (Aust). Includes some factsheets/brochures.
• Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network aims to "improve the quality and accessibility of mental health services available to Australia's Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) communities". Includes multilingual brochures and a growing collection of online publications including, for example, National Standards for Mental Health Services (Aust).
• Gold Coast District Health Service Integrated Mental Health Service (Aust).
• The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria (Aust).
• Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health.
• Internet Mental Health includes information on disorders and medications.
• Mental Health Infosource has useful information including a disorders index.
• SANE Australia is an "independent national organisation committed to improving the well-being of Australians seriously affected by mental illness". Includes publications (some online) about mental health.
• The Schizophrenia Homepage.
• Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (Aust).
• Suicide Prevention Australia. Very little online.
• Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention.
• Suicide has information about suicide and its prevention including a Suicide FAQ.
• American Psychiatric Association has a good amount of mental health information online.
• Other Mental Health Directories.

Drug Abuse

• National Alcohol Campaign (Aust).
• Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Queensland. PDF format.
• Queensland Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Services (part of Qld Health). Includes Online Publications.
• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (Canada).
• National Institute on Drug Abuse. Lots of good online publications are available.
• The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
• Connecticut Clearinghouse on Alcohol, Tobacco and other drugs. Inlcludes fact sheets.
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Includes publications and databases.
• National Substance Abuse Web Index allows you to search multiple sites.
• American Society of Addiction Medicine.
• Drugs Information has useful non-technical information on the more common drugs of abuse.
• Addiction Research Institute (Aust).
• Australian Drug Foundation offers drug information. Good.
• Alcohol and Drug Foundation of Queensland. Includes fulltext conference papers.
• Centre for Education and Information on Drugs and Alcohol. Includes good factsheets on drugs.
• West Australian Strategy Against Drug Abuse
• Partnership for a Drug Free America. Includes Drug Information.
• National Inhalant Prevention Coalition Web Site has excellent information on inhalant abuse.
• The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (USA govt).
• Alcohol Information from the Western Australian government.
• Illicit Drugs information from the Western Australian government.
• US Drug Enforcement Administration.
• United Nations Drug Control information.
  • United Nations International Drug Control Programme. Includes Press Releases.
  • International Narcotics Control Board. Includes Press Releases.
• Office of National Drug Control Policy. Includes an interesting and apparently comprehensive glossary of "street" terms for drugs. Seems to focus on illicit drug use.
• Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
• Anabolic Steroid Abuse from NIDA.
• Internet Addiction Resources.
• Tobacco Control Super Site (Aust) by Simon Chapman has information as well as links to related sites. Good.
• Quit Now is an Australian government initiative to persuade people to quit consumption of tobacco products. It has some online information about smoking and the effect of smoking on health.
• Non Smokers' Movement of Australia.
• Tobacco Information and Prevention Source from CDC.
• Quit - Victorian Smoking and Health Program. Lots of good online information about smoking.
• Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues. Unfortunately a paid subscription is required to access the full report, but there is some useful free information.
• Action on Smoking and Health (Aust).
• Other Drug Abuse Directories.

Health Administration/Policy/HIM

• ICD-10 from WHO.
• ICD-10 from CDC. Links to the actual drafts???
• ICD-10 from HFCA. Links to more of the drafts?
• National Center for Health Statistics.
• American Health Information Management Association.
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
• Medical Records Institute.
• National Centre for Classification in Health.
• The Australian Bureau of Statistics has lots of statistical information about Australia including Census 1996 data (now available with a map interface) and Time Series Data.
• Health Services /Technology Assessment texts from the National Institutes of Health (USA).
• Continuous Quality Improvement at Clemson has lots of text files on CQI, TQM etc. as well as links to related sites. The TQM in Health Care area may be of interest.
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.
• Centre for Health Program Evaluation.
• Medibank Private is an Australian private health insurer.
• The Australian Health Insurance Commission.
• Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (USA Govt) has a good amount of information online. Includes online consumer information on various conditions amongst other things.
• Health Policy Page from Idea Central.
• Wisconsin Network for Health Policy Research.
• The Australasian Cochrane Centre is the local mirror of the Cochrane Collaboration which prepares, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of health care. See also The Canadian Cochrane Collaboration Home Page and Other Cochrane Centers. The Cochrane Library by the Health Communication Network (Aust) claims to be "the best single source of reliable evidence about the effects of health care". Unfortunately access is restricted to those with an HCN username and password.
• International Clearinghouse of Health System Reform Initiatives.
• Health Information Research Unit of McMaster University. It includes the Evidence Based Medicine Home Page .
• UK Clearinghouse on Health Outcomes promotes health outcomes assessment.
• Australian Health Outcomes Clearing House.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse publishes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
• Doctors' Reform Society of Australia aims to "defend and improve the Public Healthcare System".
• Health in the Marketplace deals with private involvement in the Australian heathcare industry.
• Other Health Administration/HIM/Health Policy Directories.

Family and Consumer Studies

• Children's Safety Network has resources for child and adolescent injury and violence prevention.
• Centre for Adolescent Health (Aust).
• The Family Violence Prevention Fund has a considerable amount of information on domestic violence.
• National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information. Includes online publications.
• National Child Protection Clearing House. Includes online publications, and bibliographies.
• National Ageing Research Institute (Aust).
• Alzheimer's Association NSW (Aust). Includes good quality helpsheets.
• Home Economics Information from the University of Florida. Quite a large collection - worth a browse.
• Colorada State Publications On Line has good quality educational information on:
  • Food and Nutrition,
  • Consumer,
  • Housing,
  • Family - Children,
  • Elderly.
• US Consumer Gateway helps consumers find government information.
• Australian Institute of Family Studies.
• PenPages is a well established database with information relating to the agricultural sciences, human nutrition, aging, family, community development and consumer issues. Quite a lot of information is available. Browsing is not available (?) but you can use the search function. Good.
• Nursing Mothers Association of Australia. Includes good information on breastfeeding.
• Children's Safety, Children's Health, Child Product Recalls from Childsecure. A lot of good quality information.
• Consumer Products Safety Commission (USA).
  • Online publications. Lots of information. Very good.
  • Press Releases contain information on defective and unsafe products; recall notices etc. Older press releases (1990-) are also available.
• Australian Consumers Association (Choice) has good quality information on:
  • Food,
  • Health,
  • Product Tests,
  • Consumer Rights, and
  • Bans and Recalls.
• Product Safety Recalls (Aust). Good.
• Electrical Product Safety Recalls (Aust). Limited.
• Office of Consumer Affairs Queensland. Site includes:
  • "Q Card" consumer factsheets,
  • Product Safety brochures,
  • Age-Wise (consumer advice for older people) and
  • Resources for Teachers.
• Federal Consumer Affairs Division (Aust).
• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Includes online publications and media releases.
• The Textile Dictionary. Comprehensive.
• Dictionary of Textile Terminology from Quality Dye Works.
• Dietary Advice, Food Additives, Recipes, and other information about food is available at Woolworths (Aust).
• Food Lovers Glossary.
• See the Food Safety & Nutrition section of this page for nutrition links.
• Other Family & Consumer Studies Directories.

Environmental & Occupational Health

• Cellular Phone Antennas and Human Health FAQ.
• Wireless Phones and Health.
• Powerlines and Cancer FAQ.
• Static Electric and Magnetic Fields and Cancer FAQ.
• Health, Environment & Work has a good selection of high quality online tutorials in Occupational & Environmental Health as well as the Health and the Environment FAQ.
• The National Environmental Health Forum (Aust).
• National Environmental Health Association has information about itself.
• National Association of County and City Health Officials.
• National Environmental Health Information Service.
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Includes Facts About Environment-Related Diseases and Health Risks, Environmental Factsheets and Pamphlets, Environmental Health Clearinghouse. Good.
• National Environmental Respiratory Center aims to "improve our understanding of the relationship between complex mixtures of environmental (outdoor) air pollutants and human health".
• The Health Effects Institute is "an independent, nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of pollutants from motor vehicles and from other sources in the environment".
• Airborne Particulate Matter Research from the Health Effects Institute.
• Cyanosite specialises on cyanobacteria (blue-green algae).
• Harmful Algae Page.
• Queensland Blue Green Algae Status Report.
• Environmental Health information from the Western Australian Government.
• A Health Inspector's Guide.
• Queensland Department of Primary Industries has information on animal health, pests, pesticides, natural resources and agriculture. A good collection of online documents in acrobat format is available.
• Do-It-Yourself Pest Control has information on pests and their control.
• Pest control brochures from the Victorian (Aust) Health department.
• Pest Control factsheets from the University of Florida.
• Insects and Other Organisms from PestWeb is a good directory of nuisance and vector organism information.
• VectorBytes is another good directory of vector information on the Internet.
• Northeastern Mosquito Control Association has information and links about mosquitoes.
• Photos of Australian mosquitoes, Mosquito Keys, Fact Sheets from the Sydney University Department of Medical Entomology.
• Photos of some american mosquitoes from Iowa State University.
• CSIRO Entomology.
• Spiders of South East Queensland.
• The Environmental Working Group is a non-profit oranisation that describes itself as "a leading content provider for public interest groups and concerned citizens who are campaigning to protect the environment".
• Environmental Protection Agency (USA) includes many high quality online publications (browsable index), as well as the WasteWise program. Try the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water. Guide to Environmental Issues is a good introduction. EPA's Student Center has easy to read information for students. The Consumer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste.
• Environment Protection Authority (Victoria, Aust).
• Environment Protection Authority NSW (Aust).
• Queensland Environmental Protection Agency. Protecting the Environment has links to factsheet/brochure style information (ie. easy reading but not a lot of detail). Online legislation is also available.
• Healthy Waterways (Qld).
• Environment Australia has a large collection of high quality online publications and EnviroNet - a network of environmental databases.
• Environment Protection Group (Aust).
• Australian State of the Environment documents.
• Environmental Health from Health Canada (govt).
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Persistent Organic Pollutants Website.
• National Center for Environmental Health. Includes online publications and online books: Basic Housing Inspection and Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children.
• Australian Institute of Environmental Health.
• Australian Institute of Environmental Health: Western Australian Division.
• enHealth (Aust). The enHealth Council is intended to be Australia's premier environmental health advisory body, responsible for implementing the National Environmental Health Strategy.
• International Federation of Environmental Health.
• Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (UK).
• Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health Project.
• Radiation and Public Health Project.
• The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide.
• Recycler's World has information about recycling.
• Queensland Resource Exchange Register "provides a matchmaking service for resources, with the goals of effective resource use and waste minimisation".
• Global Recycling Network is a recycling information resource.
• Solid Waste Online.
• Municipal Solid Waste Factbook from the US EPA.
• Clean Up Australia.
• EPA Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.
• Waterwatch is a national community-based water quality monitoring program in Australia.
• The Water Quality Association has Consumer Information, Technical Papers and The Water Quality Glossary. Good.
• National Water Quality Management Strategy (Aust).
• The Chlorine Council newsroom has a decent amount good factsheet/brochure style information on the chlorination of water for drinking, wastewater treatment etc. See also more detailed articles in their library. They also, naturally enough, have information on other uses of chlorine.
• The Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment "focuses on issues relating to water quality management and health risk reduction, from catchment and reservoir management and water treatment to the distribution of drinking water to consumers' taps". Includes the newsletters Water Quality News and Health Stream.
• Sydney Water provides reticulated water and sewerage services in Australia's largest city. Water Quality Media Releases from NSW Health Dept during the Sydney water crisis.
• The Queensland Health Act and selected regulations (Acrobat format):
  • Health Act 1937
  • Health Regulation 1996
  • Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation 1996
  • Other Queensland Government Legislation
• The Queensland Environment Protection Act (acrobat format):
  • Environmental Protection Act 1994
  • See Queensland Government Legislation for related legislation.
• CouncilNet is an Australian initiative for local government. Registration (free) is required. Local government management and evironmental issues seem to be the focus. There is a growing database of case studies and best practice including a waste management section.
• Local Government Association of Queensland.
• Brisbane City Council (Aust).
• Australian Disaster Management Information Network.
• Emergency Management Australia seeks to "promote and support comprehensive, integrated and effective emergency management in Australia and its region of interest". It has a considerable amount of quality online information.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
• Pew Center for Climate Change.
• ReliefWeb.
• Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange has links to a lot of useful online information.
• Natural Hazards Center has useful disaster-related information.
• All Hazards Handbook.
• National Toxicology Program.
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has a lot of information on chemical hazards and environmental health. Try the HazDat Database. Another way to find information is to use its Science Corner. Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets are useful and are also available in a simpler format. The newsletter Hazardous Substances & Public Health is available online.
• Toxic Alert aims to make complex technical information about health and toxics in our environment so that it is accessible and understandable by most people, and to provide alternatives and health information so that people can protect themselves, their families, and their communities.
• United Nations Environment Programme Chemicals/WHO - GEENET Project has information on environment-damaging chemicals.
• National Pollutant Inventory (Aust) is "an internet database designed to provide the community, industry and government with information on the types and amounts of certain chemicals being emitted to the environment".
• Extension Toxicology Network has high quality information on pesticides and general toxicology. Pesticide Information Profiles give a toxicological review of many pesticides, Toxicology Information Briefs and Factsheets are available. Cornell's Extoxnet - slightly different information? See also Cornell's Pesticide Active Ingredient Profiles.
• Pesticide factsheets from the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
• USEPA Pesticide Reregistrations has fact sheets on a limited number of pesticides.
• National Registration Authority for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Aust).
• Pesticide Management from the FAO.
• USEPA/OPP Database Queries can help you find information about chemicals.
• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) are available from
  • NOHSC (Aust) (not exactly MSDSs but very good - better toxicological information than usual MSDSs. Try the Exposure Standards Database and the List of Designated Hazardous Substances.
  • National Environmental Health Information Service.
  • Cornell University,
  • SIRI (includes a good directory to more chemical information and a collection of links to manufacturers' MSDS databases),
  • Fisher Chemicals (actually their online catalog with links to MSDSs),
  • Oxford University,
  • Hazardous Chemical Database at the University of Akron,
  • Oregon State University, and
  • Utah State University. No longer being updated.
  • Chemical Health & Safety Database from the NTP has MSDSs (or something similar) for around 2000 substances.
  • For exceptionally comprehensive MSDSs/toxicity summaries, ECDIN Databank is the place to visit (can be slow).
  • International Chemical Safety Cards are a sort of summarised MSDS for pure chemicals rather than products - very good.
  • NIOSH's Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards.
  • Chemfinder from Cambridge has chemical information with links to MSDSs. Good.
  • The University of Kentucky's directory of MSDS sites on the Internet for other sites that offer MSDSs.
  • MSDSs from the manufacturer from MSDS-Search is a fine directory of manufacturers who offer online MSDSs. Their MSDS database directory is also commendable. The MSDS-Search Home Page should be useful when fully operational. Try Macquarie University's OHS Links for for MSDS sites.
  • MSDS Xchange has links to manufacturers online MSDSs.
  • Mobil MSDSs.
• EPA Chemical Substance Factsheets which can be searched. The Complete Index has links to external chemical information for each substance.
• Substance Search from the Australian National Pollutant Inventory Database (Aust) has factsheets on various pollutants. At the bottom of the factsheet are links to other quality information on the substance. Of course, it also has emissions information.
• Integrated Risk Information System from the US EPA is a database of over 500 substances. "IRIS is a database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment".
• The Chemical Scorecard from the Environmental Defence Fund has information about chemicals.
• Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets from the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. PDF format. Good.
• Chemlinks from the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
• Chemicals in the Environment: OPPT Chemical Fact Sheets from the US EPA.
• Pesticides and Food from the US EPA.
• Pesticide Tolerances Database is MS-DOS software that you download onto your own PC.
• Chemical Fact Sheets from Spectrum Laboratories.
• Search Toxline toxicological abstracts database from Medscape. Free registration required.
• HazardNet.
• Queensland Division of Workplace Health and Safety has (mostly in acrobat format):
  • Guidance Notes,
  • Guides,
  • Information Sheets,
  • Brochures and other useful information.
  • Queensland OH&S legislation:
    • Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 and amendments, and,
    • Regulations.
• National Occupational Health & Safety Commission (Aust) (formerly Worksafe Australia) has OH&S information. Try the Chemicals and Publications page for standards, Codes of Practice, Guidance Notes etc. Includes the List of Designated Hazardous Substances database and the Exposure Standards database.
• WorkCover NSW has a limited amount of OH&S information.
• WorkCover Corporation of South Australia.
• Tasmanian Workplace Standards Authority (Aust).
• Northern Territory Work Health Authority (Aust) has online legislation.
• Occupational Safety and Health Service of the Department of Labour, New Zealand.
• Ergoweb specialises in ergonomics.
• Ergonomics Society of Australia.
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The site has a good collection of online publications.
• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (USA) has a vast amount of information such as OSHA Regulations, Documents, Technical Info & Training online. Includes online publications, OSHA Factsheets and free software.
• European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.
• Free Safety Information from the Compressed Gas Association.
• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety. Promotes its own products rather than providing free information.
• International Occupational Health and Safety Health Information Centre. Seems more interested in advertising its own products than putting useful information online.
• ACTU Occupational Health and Safety Policies (Aust).
• Mine Safety and Health Administration (USA) has a good collection of safety and health information.
• Duke Occupational & Environmental Medicine.
• A Patient's Guide to Cumulative Trauma Disorders such as Carpel Tunnel Syndrome.
• Other Environmental and Occupational Health Directories.

Communicable Diseases

• National Center for Infectious Diseases has an Infectious Diseases of Public Health Importance page (very good) and an Online Publications section.
• CDC - Diseases Information Page (includes prevention strategies), infectious diseases brochures and leaflets, Travellers Health information.
• Infectious Diseases Information from HealthFax (Aust).
• Communicable disease factsheets from the New York State Department of Health.
• Infectious diseases consumer information.
• WHO Fact Sheets cover communicable diseases.
• Public Health Division of the Health Department of Western Australia has a lot of good online information in Acrobat format. Includes Communicable Disease Prevention & Control, Immunisation, Mosquito-Borne Disease Control, and Sexual Health and Blood-borne Viruses. Seems to be a slow link.
• Communicable Disease Brochures from the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services.
• Guidelines for the Control of Infectious Diseases from the Victorian Public Health Division (Aust) has separate entries for individual diseases. Good.
• Health Topics from NSW Health has good factsheets.
• Public Health Topics from the Victorian Public Health Division.
• Health Topics from Qld Health has good factsheets.
• Brochures from Queensland Health cover many communicable diseases.
• Australian National Council on AIDS and Related Diseases.
• Infectious Diseases from Better Health (Victorian governement).
• Infectious Diseases from Boston University Medical Center.
• Ray's Virology Page has useful information on viral diseases.
• WWW Server for Virology is a good resource.
• All the Virology on the WWW. Good.
• Flunet (WHO Global Influenza Surveillance).
• Sterilization & Disinfection definitions from the CDC.
• Outbreak specialises in emerging diseases.
• National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Includes Factsheets and the Virtual Library of Infectious Diseases.
• Infectious Diseases Society of America.
• National Network for Immunization Information.
• Infectious Diseases from Medscape is a good resource. Free registration required.
• Medical Microbiology is an online text book.
• MSDS's for microbes and parasites from Health Canada.
• Identification and Diagnosis of Parasites of Public Health Concern has a good qulaity online library of parasitic diseases.
• Atlas of Medical Hemninthology.
• Medical Helminthology.
• Nematology.
• Public Health Laboratory Service (UK govt) covers communicable disease in the UK.
• Communicable Diseases Australia has data on communicable disease incidence, outbreaks etc.
• Bugs in the News. Good introductory information.
• National Organization for Rare Disorders has good information on rare diseases.
• Institute for Molecular Virology.
• The British BSE (Mad Cow Disease) Inquiry. Includes transcripts, media releases, supporting documents, etc.
• Travellers Medical and Vaccination Centre (Aust). Includes Travel Health News Alerts, Medical Travel Information, and a small Reference Library.
• International Society of Travel Medicine News Service has reports of diseases/outbreaks.
• Shoreland's Travel Health Online.
• Dengue information from the University of Queensland.
• NSW Arbovirus Surveillance & Vector Monitoring Program has excellent online information about Arboviruses, and Mosquitoes (includes photos). Very good.
• Legionnaire's Disease and Legionnaire's Disease & Cooling Towers from the Victorian Public Health Division.
• Animal Health in Australia has good information on diseases acquired from animals.
• Animal Diseases from the Office International des Epizooties. (Some animal diseases can infect humans).
• CDC's National Immunization Program. Includes detailed immunization publications. Try the Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases" course Textbook 6th Edition(January 2000).
• Flu Monitor from Lemsip (Aust).
• Immunise Australia Campaign from the federal government. Quality online information and publications.
• Australian Childhood Immunisation Register.
• 100% Immunization Campaign - Immunization for Seniors.
• WHO's Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.
• WHO's Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunization. Includes Diseases & Vaccines information.
• The Global Polio Eradication Initiative from WHO.
• Polio Prevention and Vaccination Information.
• Vaccine Education Center of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
• National Coalition for Adult Immunization has a good selection of Factsheets.
• Vaccine Safety is "dedicated to the promotion of safer immunization practices through the application of scientific principles to vaccine research. The website highlights research into the long term effects of vaccines and discusses potential harmful effects of vaccines."
• Immunisation and Infection Control from HealthFax (Aust).
• Immunisation information from Royal Australian College of General Pratitioners.
• The Arizona Partnership for Infant Immunization.
• Immunization Action Coalition focusses on Hepatitis B immunisation.
• Vaccination Awareness Network (Aust) has information on the disadvantages of vaccination as well as the benefits. It has a good directory of related sites.
• Immunisation Awareness Society (NZ) is similar to the previous entry but seems more negative about vaccination.
• Other Communicable Diseases Directories.

Medical Information

• Consumer Health Information from the National Institutes of Health. Good.
• Combined Health Information Database - abstracts only unfortunately.
• Findout's Health Library has links to health information. Try also Findout's Home Page.
• HealthInsite aims to be "a world class Internet presence that provides the people of Australia with a place to obtain quality health information that is reliable, easy to use, comprehensive and timely". Under construction.
• The Health Education Board for Scotland has lots of good online health information. Try Public Site for fact sheets about diseases, health promotion etc.
• Information for Patients and Information for Healthcare Providers from the Virtual Hospital.
• University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook. Brief note format for medical practitioners. Good.
• Virtual Naval Hospital is a manual for medical practitioners. Good.
• Healthfinder helps you find consumer health information.
• Infomedical is a directory of medical information on the Internet.
• Health Topics from NSW Health has good factsheets.
• Public Health Topics from the Victorian Public Health Division.
• Health Topics from Qld Health has good factsheets.
• Health Conditions from Better Health.
• Health Insight from the AMA. The Specific Conditions pages have information on a limited range of conditions.
• Consensus Statements from the National Instsitutes of Health are reviews of medical treatments and technologies.
• Multicultural Health Communication Service publications has lots of health information in several languages (acrobat format).
• American Heart Association has a considerable amount of online publications and resources. Good.
• Australian National Heart Foundation has online publications and information on Food Smart.
• The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has good factsheet information available.
• National Stroke Organization.
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
• Back Pain. A good collection.
• Human Anatomy Online. Good.
• How the Body Works. Targeted at children but good quality.
• InteliHealth from Johns Hopkins. Good. Free registration is required to access some databases.
• HealthFax (Aust) provides online information for medical practitioners and their patients.
• MyDr is an Australian site offering medical information.
• Look It Up from Thrive Online is a powerful and comprehensive searchable database of health information. Recommended.
• MedicineNet has a good Diseases and Treatments section and a fine Medical Dictionary.
• Adult Health Advisor from InteliHealth. Very good.
• Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics is an excellent database/directory.
• Medical Dictionary from Medscape. Free registration required.
• University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook. Good, but getting a bit old (published 1990).
• Health Answers Get an Answer is a good database of medical information.
• Mediconsult.com is a fine collection of medical information classified by area. Good.
• The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Treatment. The manual is broken into many small chunks, making browsing difficult, but you can search it. No longer available online due to being out-of-date.
• The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition has only a selection of chapters and is therefore incomplete.
• Healthsquare.
• Emedicine has a growing collection of online medical textbooks. Emergency Medicine section is comprehensive.
• The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons' Complete Home Medical Guide. Good.
• Healthwise Handbook from Better Heath is a good home medical guide-type resource.
• Better Health has lots of consumer-type articles on diseases and conditions. Good.
• Healthtouch has online health information (factsheet type)
• Royal Australian College of General Pratitioners has some online medical information.
• Ozzieweb's Medical Mall in Australia.
• Community Outreach Health Information System of the The Boston University Medical Center has useful amounts of online health information.
• HealthWatch from WTVC has many health articles.
• Health Information from Amcal Chemists (Aust).
• The Online Medical Dictionary. Lots of words defined although the deinitions are rather brief. Good.
• Symptoms Reference from HealthScout tries to link symptoms with conditions. Good.
• Medical Encyclopedia from HealthScout.
• Discovery Health. Good online health & medical information.
• Medical Conditions from drkoop.com.
• National Organization for Rare Disorders has good information on rare diseases.
• adam.com has medical information and high quality medical illustrations (anatomical & surgical).
• My Lifepath has medical information.
• Embarassing Problems aims "to help you deal with health problems that worry you and that are difficult to discuss with anyone".
• WebMD has good online medical information. Try the Library which includes a Self-Care Advisor, Health Topics A-Z, and a Medical Encyclopedia.
• MMWR Fact Sheets have summaries of diseases based on MMWR reports.
• Health Clinic USA seems to a have a good database of health information.
• Medicine FAQs and Health Care FAQs.
• Health Education Brochure Resource Library is a good collection of helpsheets on various conditions and health issues.
• Information on skin conditions from Dermnet.
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from Mediconsult.com. Seems good.
• National Asthma Campaign (Aust) includes the online Asthma Management Handbook.
• Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Online.
• LungNet from the Australian Lung Foundation has good online information about respiratory diseases, particularly in the Learn About Lung Health page.
• Migraine Information Center.
• First Aid information can be found at Active's First Aid Online (Aust) - very good, Helping Hands (Aust), First Aid Online (Aust), MedAccess First Aid Book, PrairieNet's First Aid Online, and Rescue 411's First Aid. See also Yahoo's First Aid directory.
• Foot Care 4 U.
• Clinical Trials Listing Service.
• High Blood Pressure - an Informative Guide is as it says.
• Reproductive Health Online. Includes information on contraception.
• Gynecologic Health Center.
• Australian Men's Health Network.
• Women's Health Information factsheets.
• PDR Family Guide to Women's Health.
• March of Dimes aims to improve the health of babies by reducing birth defects, infant mortality, low birthweight, and lack of prenatal care. Has good quality online information - try the Health Library.
• NSW Breast Cancer Institute (Aust).
• Skin Cancer Research Foundation (Aust) has information on skin cancer prevention & detection.
• National Breast Cancer Centre (Australia) contains considerable information.
• National Action Plan on Breast Cancer.
• Breast Cancer Answers Project.
• Information on cancer for the public and patients and Information for people with cancer from the National Cancer Institute. Good.
• CancerNet has extensive online information about cancer including Physician Information, Patient Information, Screening and Prevention Statements and CancerLit abstracts service which includes abstracts on prevention and screening as well as treatment.
• American Cancer Society has lots of quality online information.
• Australian Cancer Network.
• Anti-Cancer Foundation of South Australia.
• Cancernews.
• Oncolink is an impressive site specialising in information on cancer.
• CancerHelp UK.
• Cancer Bacup has information on cancer including cancer drugs.
• Cancerguide.
• Prostate Cancer Online Resources.
• Leukemia Society of America.
• Palliative Care Council of South Australia has some good online information available.
• Drug information is available at:
  • The Internet Drug Index has drug information.
  • DrugDB
  • PDR Family Guide To Prescription Drugs from Healthsquare,
  • Drug Information from the Australian Guide to Medications.
  • InteliHealth's Drug Database (USP data).
  • Onhealth's USP Drug Database (USP data).
  • Mayo Health Oasis PharmaCenter (USP data).
  • Mediconsult.com's Drug Information (USP data).
  • Nurse's PDR Drug Database.
  • Drug information from Healthtouch.
  • Drug Reference from WebMD.
  • RX Advisor from e pharmacy. See also the Consumers Guide to Over-the-Counter Drugs.
  • Health Philadelphia's Prescription Drug information.
  • Information on Medicines from a South African web site.
  • Thrive Health Library,
  • Commonly Prescribed Drugs,
  • Drug Library from Medscape. Free registration required.
  • Clinical Pharmacology - Drug Monograph Service,
  • FDA's Drug Information directory,
  • Virtual Pharmacy Center
  • New Drugs or Indications.
  • Medication Information Index
  • Try Drug Information by MacCara, Foy, and Bower for more online drug information.
• Clinical Toxicology tutorial from the Hunter Area Toxicology Service (Aust) is well designed and informative.
• Alternative Medicine from the New England Skeptical Society takes a critical look at some alternative medicine practices.
• Quackwatch focusses on questionable alternative medicine.
• The Expanded Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare: Alternative Medicine, Paranormal Healing, and Related Methods
• Georgia Council Against Health Fraud's Health Care Reality Check. Includes Encyclopedia of Health Claims.
• American Council on Science and Health.
• Other Medical Information Directories.

Food Safety, Food Science & Nutrition

• Food Safety Information Retrieval System from the North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension Service is actually a directory but an exceptionally good one. Recommended.
• Australian Food Safety Campaign Group has
  • HACCP Information,
  • Food Regulations,
  • Food Safety Library,
  • Consumer Fact Sheets, and
  • Industry Fact Sheets.
  Very good.
• Food Safety Publications from Colorado State.
• US Food and Drug Administration web page can be a good source of information on food and drugs.
  
  • The US Food Code is available online. It contains "the latest science-based information on food safety providing guidelines for maintaining food safety in restaurants, grocery stores, nursing homes, and other institutional and retail settings".
  • The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition contains nutrition and food safety information including
    • Foodborne Illness information,
    • The Guide to Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxicants,
    • HACCP,
    • Food Labelling and Nutrition,
    • Pesticides, Metals & Chemical Contaminants,
    • Seafood Information and Resources,
    • Food Additives, and
    • Consumer Advice.
  • FDA's National Food Safety Initiative.
• The Food Standards Agency of the UK Government.
• www.FoodSafety.gov is a gateway to US Government food safety information. Good.
• U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service. Very good. Includes:
  • Online Publications,
  • Food Safety Publications (good),
  • Pathogen Reduction/HACCP & HACCP Implementation,
  • Consumer Education and Information.
• International Food Information Council. Good quality online information about food.
• The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
• Food Safety Library from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
• Fight Bac aims to fight the problem of foodborne illness. Good.
• Pesticides and Food from the US EPA.
• All you can eat from the EWG also deals with pesticides in food.
• Food Safety & Foodborne Illness from IFIC.
• International Association of Food Safety Professionals. Not much online information.
• USDA/FDA Foodborne Illness Education Information Center.
• About E coli.
• Keeping Food Safe from Paddock to Plate.
• Food Safety Information from the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension has brief summaries.
• Serving It Safe: A Manager's Toolkit. Good training material in PDF format.
• Food handling and poisoning pamphlets from the Victorian Health Department (Aust).
• Food Health and Food Environmental Health from HealthFax (Aust).
• Food safety and handling factsheets from the University of Florida.
• Food Safety articles from the Australian Consumers Association.
• The American Egg Board. Includes information on Egg Safety for Consumers and Egg Safety for Health Professionals.
• The Compliance Control Center aims to monitors handwashing in public facilities.
• FoodNet includes a HACCP Implementation Manual and links to lots of food safety/quality/regulation information.
• Institute of Food Science and Engineering.
• Joint Food Safety and Standards Group of the UK Dept of Health has good online material on food safety.
• Food Science Australia (CSIRO) publishes the newsletter Food Safety and Hygiene as well as consumer factsheets.
• Food Additives Information.
• Australian Food Additives - you enter the code and you get the name of the additive.
• Food Additives from IFIC.
• CSIRO (Aust) media releases.
• Australian Quarantine & Inspection Service of the Australian Department of Primary Industry and Energy has information on quarantine, food inspection, food safety and animal health. It includes an online Report on Microbial Food Safety. Press Releases are available.
• National Food Safety Database aims to to educate food handlers about ways to prevent foodborne illness. It has a fine collection of online information on food safety. Good.
• Queensland legislation on food safety (Acrobat format):
  • Food Act 1981
  • Food Hygiene Regulation 1989
  • Food Standards Regulation 1994
  • Other Queensland Government Legislation
• Australia & New Zealand Food Authority. Includes:
  • Food Safety,
  • the Food Standards Code,
  • Latest publications & media releases.
• Interim Office of the Gene Technology Regulator and the Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee (Aust Govt).
• Biotechnology Australia is a government agency.
• Institute of Food Science & Technology has some good online information including the Frequently Asked Questions About Food Science, Nutrition and Safety and a Glossary of Food Products and Processes.
• Food Law and Policy Australia.
• Australian Food News.
• Dietary and Nutrition Advice from HealthFax.
• Nutrition Australia. Includes
  • Australian Food Composition Tables and
  • FAQs on Food.
• Food and Nutrition information from the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension.
• Dietary Advice, Food Additives, Recipes, and other information about food is available at Woolworths (Aust).
• Coles is an Australian supermarket chain.
• Coles 7 a Day "to encourage all Australians to eat 7 serves of fruit and vegetables a day".
• Golden Circle (Aust) produces canned fruits and vegetables and fruit juices. Not much information.
• Uncle Toby's is an Australian food company. Healthy You has some brief nutrition information.
• Goodman Fielder (Aust) is the parent of Uncle Toby's as well as other processed food brands but has little useful online information.
• Sanitarium Health Food Company (Aust) produces breakfast cereals and vegetarium food etc. The site is under construction, but some Product Information is available. Information for children is available too.
• Kelloggs is a multinational food company. Appears to have very little useful information.
• Gerber manufactures baby food. The site has a good Information for Health Professionals section.
• Heinz Baby Food. Has good online information for parents.
• The Heinz Institute of Nutritional Science. Some research papers.
• Vegemite is a strong-tasting yeast extract eaten on bread. Not much nutritional information here.
• Kraft Foods. Mostly recipes and similar information.
• Danone is a multinational food company.
• Nestle is another multinational food company. Product details are surprisingly scarce.
• Coca Cola Amatil produces soft drinks. Not a lot of nutritional information on this site...
• Food Manufacturers from Yahoo Australia. Try also Aussie.com's directory of Australian food manufacturers.
• Food Victoria has "the latest information on the production of food in Victoria, Australia". Some useful information available.
• Food and Nutrition information from Colorado State University.
• Nutrition Information from the AMA.
• Office of Dietary Supplements of the US NIH.
• CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition. Includes Press Releases and Publications. .
• Dietitions Association of Australia.
• Food, Nutrition & Health Information Page from the University of Western Sydney (Hawkesbury). Includes the Australian Code Breaker for Food Additives and various other information on nutrition.
• Mayo Clinic Diet Center has good online information about nutrition.
• Eat Well Live Well Research and Information Centre (Aust) has online nutrition information. Good for health promotion purposes.
• Nutrition Information from the Western Australia Health Department.
• Search the USDA Nutrition Database gives you the nutritional composition of food. You can also search the same database from Fatfree. See also Nutribase.
• Dietary Analysis Program is free IBM PC software from the USDA that features "up to 3-day intake analysis for 27 nutrients and food components and a data base of approximately 850 foods".
• Recommended Daily allowances of Vitamins and Minerals from the US FDA. RDA for Women.
• Recommended Dietary Allowances from the USDA.
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans 1995 and Dietary Guidelines from the USDA.
• The Interactive Healthy Eating Index from the USDA is "an online dietary assessment tool that includes nutrition messages. After providing a day's worth of dietary information, you will receive a "score" on the overall quality of your diet for that day".
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the FDA.
• Food and Nutrition Information Center has lots of quality online information.
• Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
• Food Lovers Glossary.
• KidsFood Cyber Club has nutritional information for children.
• Other Food Safety and Nutrition Directories.

Free Medline Access

• PubMed from the National Library of Medicine searches all of Medline plus additional information and seems very comprehensive, if a little slow.
• The Internet Grateful Med also from the National Library of Medicine searches Medline too with a different interface. It can also search other NLM databases.
• HealthGate offers free Medline searching.
• Webline from Medicine Australia.
• HealthWorld's free medline search service which seems very slow.
• Medscape has a free medline search but registration (free) is required.
• Healthworks (UK) has a Medline service but registration (free) is required.
• Dr Felix's Free Medline Page has links to other sites that offer free Medline searches.
• MEDLINE Interfaces and Related Resources.
• ERIC is an education resources database.
• WebMedLit provides access to articles from dozens of online medical journals.
• Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Searchable.
• Subscribed Databases has links to various online databases subscribed to by QUT. QUT staff and students only.

Other

• Hansard has Australian Parliament transcripts.
• Scaleplus allows you to search for Australian legislation and caselaw.
• Australasian Legal Information Institute also has online Australian legislation etc.
• Search US Federal Regulations.
• Search Canadian Regulations.
• Western Australian legislation.
• Australian Labor Party, ALP Queensland Branch, Liberal Party of Australia, National Party of Australia, Australian Democrats, One Nation, The Shooters Party.
• Australian Council of Social Service.
• The World Lecture Hall has links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. See the Health section.
• National Acadamy Press offers hundreds of it books online. Unfortunately you can only view the image of 1 printed page at a time. I suppose it reduces piracy but it makes things very slow.
• Standards Australia produces standards but none are online at present.
• American Society of Testing and Materials has online standards at a price.
• International Standards Organization (ISO) publishes standards but none are online at present.
• American National Standards Institute publishes standards but none are online at present.
• Usenet FAQs are frequently asked questions and answers on many subjects. An alternative site also has FAQs. Australian university users can access a mirror of the RTFM FAQ archive. The Medicine category may be of use. Can be very slow. Note: Usenet newsgroups ending in '.answers' are the fastest source for these. Some FAQs are available at non.com
• QualPage is a collection of resources for qualitative research.
• The Why Files from the National Science Foundation has interesting stories about science in the news. An archive is kept.
• The National Library of Medicine has online databases (eg. Medline) although most require payment in advance. There are some free databases available.

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Note: This page is not a complete listing of all sites that may relate to the field of public health. It is a selection of those that I consider useful. Sites that offer little or no useful information are not included here.

If you did not find what you were looking for on this page, then try the Directories page for a listing of other Internet health directories. Also, you could try doing your own keyword searching of the Internet via the Search Engines page.

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