Health Sciences Information Resources: Additional Resources

Special topics in Health Sciences

• Canadian Health Care Policy Reform
• Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)
• Global Health

Related subject guides

• Biological Sciences
• Kinesiology
• Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Associations & organizations - general

• American Medical Association
• British Columbia Medical Association
• Canadian Medical Association
• College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia
• Public Health Association of British Columbia
• Canadian Society of Internal Medicine
• International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada   

Institutes & organizations - health policy and research

• Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
• Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health & Addiction (CARMHA)
• Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
• Centre for the Evaluation of Medicines
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

• Accreditation Canada
• BC Environmental & Occupational Health Research Network
• Canadian Cancer Research Alliance
• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
• Canadian College of Health Service Executives
• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
• Canadian Health Resource Centre (CHRC)
• Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)
• Canadian Healthcare Association
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
• Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN)
• Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA)
• Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario(ICES)
• Institute for Work and Health
• Institute of Health Economics
• International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
• Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP)
• National Forum on Health, 1994-1997
• Population Health Research Unit, Dalhousie University
• Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit
• Tommy Douglas Research Institute

Government information

Canada:

• Health Canada
• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Canadian Best Practices Portal
• BC Ministry of Health Services
  • British Columbia Health Authorities (e.g. Vancouver Coastal Health)

• Ministry of Health Consolidated Policy Directory an online directory of BC Ministry of Health policy and guidelines affecting British Columbia's health authorities (via RefWorks RefShare)
• Provincial Health Services Authority
  • Includes:
    • BC Cancer Agency
    • BC Centre for Disease Control
    • BC Mental Health & Addiction Services
    • BC Renal Agency
    • BC Transplant Society
    • Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia
      • Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children
    • Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission

United States:

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• US National Institutes of Health

• Health.gov
• Nutrition.gov
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse - a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (US).
• US National Library of Medicine

International:

• World Health Organization

Websites

• Health Sciences Online - a search engine focused on authoritative, educational materials; sponsored in part by UBC.
• UBC READ Portal - "research, evidence and analysis for health care decision-makers."
• Amedeo: the Medical Literature Guide
• MD Express
• MedicalStudent.com
• Virtual Hospital
• Evidence Network - a Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Manitoba Health Research Council project to "make the latest evidence on controversial health policy issues available to the media"
• Women Downtown Eastside - Vancouver
  www.womendtes.com
  "... the website was primarily intended as an interface between the DTES and the general and academic public. We hope to encourage a deeper and more personal understanding of this vibrant yet troubled community, including the threats it faces from gentrification. Through this website, we aim to contribute to a better understanding of this special neighborhood and of the experience of poverty, poor living conditions and drug addiction familiar to so many, and encourage a pondering of equitable solutions." [Dr. Jaqqueline Levitin]