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The United
Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
was founded in 1946 by the United Nations to meet the
emergency needs of children in post-war Europe and China.
In 1950, UNICEF changed its mandate to address the long-term
needs of children and women in developing countries.
Priorities today include immunizations, child protection,
HIV/AIDS, early childhood development, adolescent education,
nutrition and gender equality. The site provides worldwide
information by country, including a list of statistics
about child and infant mortality, annual birth rates,
nutrition and education, as well as general demographics.
The EthnoMed
site contains information about cultural
beliefs, medical issues and other issues related to
the health care of recent immigrants to the United States.
Links to 22 different culture-specific pages provide
a cultural profile, clinical topics and patient education
materials.
Some education materials are available in languages
such as Amharic, Cambodian, Oromo and Somali. The list
of diabetic education topics in a variety of languages
is impressive. Some of the information is also available
in digital audio recordings.
The Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality allows
access to scientific evidence and recommendations on
clinical preventive services with information on how
to implement the recommended preventive services into
clinical practice.
Updates from 2004 include screening for family violence,
pancreatic cancer and testicular cancer. Each screening
update gives a summary of recommendations as well as
supporting documents. Other topics can be accessed by
clinical categories or an A-to-Z topic index.
Mesothelioma
is the legacy left by asbestos. For 50 years, Americans
in industrial and building trades were exposed to asbestos
by breathing asbestos fibers at their job sites, and
each night they brought the asbestos home to their families
on their clothes and hair. Now, every year, thousands
of Americans are developing mesothelioma, a malignant
tumor that aggressively invades the linings of the lungs,
abdomen, heart or testicles.
The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation formed
in 1999 to restore hope to mesothelioma patients and
their families, who had always been told that the disease
was untreatable and incurable. MARF is working to find
a cure by funding research, educating patients and increasing
awareness. MARF’s site provides up-to-date information
on the disease and its treatments.
The National
Academies Press was created to publish
reports issued by the National Academies of Sciences,
Institute of Medicine, National Research Council and
the National Academy of Engineering.
The site’s category link to medical sciences,
public health and health care contains information on
an extensive range of the latest hot topics in health
care. Article topics include prions, patient safety,
insuring Americans and reducing birth defects. The press
publishes more than 3,000 books online that can be accessed
free of charge.
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