GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY ISSUES

General Information Sources

• World Health Report 2004: Health Systems Improving Performance (WHO)
• World Health Report: Links to previous years (1995-2003)
• Health in the Americas (PAHO)

Aging

• Long-Term Global Demographic Trends: Reshaping the Geopolitical Landscape (CIA)
• Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society (OECD)
• Policy Implications of Ageing (OECD)
• Reforms for an Ageing Society (OECD)
• Elderly Health Links (PAHO)

AIDS

• UNAIDS (UN)
• HIV/AIDS (World Bank)
• HIV/AIDS in the Developing World (Bureau of the Census)
• Annotated Bibliography of WHO Publications on HIV/AIDS (WHO)

Burden of Illness

• Macroeconomics and Health (WHO)
• Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development (12/01)
• Communicable/infectious Disease Links (WHO)
• Diseases: Prevention and Control Links (PAHO)
• Non-communicable Disease Links (WHO)
• Tropical Disease Links (WHO)
• Vaccine-preventable Disease Links (WHO)

Environment/Sustainable Development

• Environmental Themes (European Environmental Agency)
• Environmental Health (PAHO)
• European Union's Policies--Environment (EU)
• Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration (order info only)

Family and Reproductive Health

• Family and Reproductive Health Links (WHO)
• Health Dimensions of Sex and Reproduction (WHO)
• Maternal Health Links (PAHO)
• Reproductive Health Links (PAHO)

Global Warming

• The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (US)
• American Petroleum Institute (US)
• Citizens for a Sound Economy (US)
• Cooler Heads Coalition (US)
• Environmental Defense Fund (US)
• European Environment Agency
• Global Warming Links (Junkscience.com)
• Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (US)
• Pace University School of Law Global Warming Central (US)
• The Science and Environmental Policy Project (US)
• World Climate Report (Greening Earth Society)

Health Promotion

• Health Promotion Links (PAHO)
• Health Promotion (WHO)

Health Technology

• Health Technology Links (PAHO)
• Health Technology Links (WHO)

Poverty and Health

• Effects of Health Care on Mortality in OECD Countries (OECD)
• Health Inequalities and Health of the Poor (WHO)
• Poverty and Health (PAHO)
• Targeting Health Programs to Reach the Poor (WHO)

Public Health

• European Union's Policies--Public Health (EU)

Tobacco

• Tobacco (WHO)