Links - Databases & Journals

Databases on health and human rights

Organisations and projects

• Health and human rights organisations – World Health Organization & François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights – www.who.int/hhr/databases/en

• Health and Human Rights Info / Organisations and projects involved in support of victims of torture - International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR) – www.hhri.org/organisations

Publications

• Country reports and alternative ("shadow") reports – IFHHRO – www.ifhhro.org/information-centre/country-reports

• Syllabi for use in higher education – Program on International Health and Human Rights (PIHHR) & UNSW Initiative for Health and Human Rights (IHHR) – www.hsph.harvard.edu/pihhr/resources_hhrdatabaseintro.html

• Health and Human Rights Info / Guidelines and manuals on torture, supporting victims of torture, psychosocial issues, etc. – ISHHR – http://www.hhri.org/guidelines/

• Health and Human Rights Info / Publications on torture, supporting victims of torture, psychosocial issues, etc. – ISHHR – www.hhri.org/publications

• HIV/AIDS and discrimination at the workplace – ILO/AIDS – www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/activities/rights.htm

Declarations and treaties

• Standards and statements pertaining to doctors – WMA – www.wma.net/e

• Standards and statements pertaining to nurses – ICN – www.icn.ch/publications/position-statements/

• Legislation and policies with regards to HIV/AIDS and the world of work – ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work (ILO/AIDS) – www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/laws/index.htm

• All ILO conventions – www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/index.htm

Other databases

• Human Rights Impact Resource Centre – Aim for human rights – www.humanrightsimpact.org

• Human rights treaties – Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) – www2.ohchr.org/english/law

• Geneva Conventions/International Humanitarian Law – International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/genevaconventions 
     
• International Humanitarian Law – ICRC – www.icrc.org/ihl
   
• Resource persons on human rights-based approaches to development – Equal In Rights – www.equalinrights.org
   
• Caselaw on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – Equal In Rights – www.escr-net.org/caselaw
   
• Human Rights Web Archive - Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research (CHRDR) of Columbia University Libraries - http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/humanrights/hrwa.html

Journals

General

• Pubmed
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

• Medscape
  http://www.medscape.com/

• Cochrane
  http://www.cochrane.org/ 

• Free Medical Journals
  http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

General Medicine

• The New England Journal of Medicine
  http://www.nejm.org/

• The Lancet
  http://www.thelancet.com/

• Journal of the American Medical Association
  http://jama.ama-assn.org/

• British Medical Journal
  http://www.bmj.com/

 Health Financing

• Health Affairs, The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere
  http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/by/year

• Health Research Policy and Systems Journal
  http://www.health-policy-systems.com/

• Health Economics, Past Issues
  www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc/5749/

• HRC and HSRC publications, DFID Health Resource Center
  http://www.hst.org.za/links/dfid-health-systems-resource-centre-hsrc

• Microcredit and Microfinance, The global development research center
  www.gdrc.org/icm/

• Journal of Microfinance
  https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php/ESR/

• New Publications on Microfinance
  www.gdrc.org/icm/newbooks/newpubs.html