Virtual Health Library

Virtual Health Library

Bibliographic Search

Specialized Areas

  • CidSaúde - Literatura sobre Cidades/Municípios Saudáveis
    CidSaúde is a database of literature about the implementation and development of the Cidades Saudáveis em Municípios Brasileiros Project, as well as texts and theoretical referential published in other countries, preferably in the Americas. Includes documents identified with the issue of urban health, health promotion, planning and intersectoral action at local / municipal level. It is developed by the Centro de Estudos, Pesquisa e Documentação em Cidades e Municípios Saudáveis - CEPEDOC Cidades Saudáveis, a non-profit organization based in the Faculdade de Saúde Pública of the São Paulo University - FSP/USP, in partneship with the Library/CIR of FSP/USP.
  • DESASTRES - Disaster Documentation Center Collection
    DISASTERS is a database produced by the Disasters Documentation Center, of the PAHO Program of Emergency Preparedness and Coordination Help for Cases of Disasters. It contains bibliographic references from resulting analysis of publications from PAHO or other United Nations agencies, books or chapters of books, unconventional literature such as technical reports, congress presentations, theses, emergency plans etc, and scientific articles extracted from specialized journals.
  • HISA - Latin American and Caribbean History of Public Heatlh
    The HISA – History of the Health is a bibliographic database developed by the Library of the Oswaldo Cruz House (COC). HISA includes subjects related to the history of medicine and the public health, including events and historical processes: narratives, historical documents, restorations, comparisons. The geographic dimension of collections is international, with emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • HOMEOINDEX - Homeopathy Brazilian Bibliography
    HomeoIndex is a database of bibliographic literature from both national and international homoeopathics medicine area. It was created by BIREME and APH - São Paulo Homoeopathy Association. Its operation, maintenance and update is coordinated by the APH Library. It indexes articles published in the most relevant journals in the area worldwide.
  • LEYES - Latin American and Caribbean Basic Health Legislation
    LEYES is a database on Latin American and Caribbean Basic Health Legislation, coordinated by the Health Policies and Systems Development Unit (HSS/HP/PAHO) and BIREME. It contains bibliographic references from current legislation on health in more than thirty countries of Latin America and Caribbean, sometimes containing the full text or giving access to it.
  • MEDCARIB - Caribbean Health Sciences Literature
    MEDCARIB is a bibliographic database that binds the literature in Health Sciences mainly originated in the english language countries of the Caribbean. It is produced by the Caribbean Network and coordinated by the Coordinator Center of MedCarib Network Medical Library from the University of West Indies (Mona, Kingston - Jamaica). It indexes documents such as books, chapters of books, theses, technical reports, annals of congresses and articles from journals. It also contains references to documents published from the 18th century to date.
  • REPIDISCA - Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences
    REPIDISCA is a database that contains bibliographic references to the Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences literature, coordinated by CEPIS - Pan American Center for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences. From 1994 on it incorporated the registers of the ECO database - related to Human Ecology and Health. It includes the literature published in the Latin America and Caribbean countries.

BIREME is a PAHO Specialized Center, established in Brazil since 1967, in collaboration with
Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Secretary of Health of the State of São Paulo and the Federal University of São Paulo

 

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