Haiti Earthquake Resources

The following resources are available at no cost; publishers have made these resources available for health care providers responding to the Haiti earthquake

Emergency Access Initiative:  This online collection provides access to 200+ popular medical journals. It also includes over 60 e-books, including the Merck Manual, Harrison’s Internal Medicine, basic textbooks, drug handbooks, and titles on emergency medicine, infectious diseases, toxicology, post-disaster public health and more.

Health Resources for Haiti:  A compilation of links to resources for medical teams responding to the Haiti earthquake. The page includes Creole-language materials for non-Creole speakers to use in healthcare settings, as well information on traumatic injuries, mass fatalities, mental health, and the public health consequences of the earthquake damage.

Infectious Diseases of Haiti: This guide covers the 198 infectious diseases known to occur in Haiti and is based on the resources of the Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network (GIDEON).

GIDEON: User ID: s2759300 and password: trial. GIDEON is a knowledge management tool used for diagnosis and reference in the fields of tropical and infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy.

DynaMed: User ID: s2759300 and password: trial. DynaMed has summaries for nearly 3,000 disease topics and 800 drug records. The information is from medical journals, associations, and contributing clinicians and is intended for health professionals.

Cochrane Evidence Aid: resources for Haiti earthquake: This page provides access to Haiti-relevant reviews from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Joint Language University: This DOD-sponsored website has Haitian Creole language materials that can be downloaded from their home page. You can learn very basic introductory phrases along with targeted medical, police, and military terminology.

MedlinePlus AND Mobile MedlinePlus: Basic health information for the general public, plus patient information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

Mobile MedlinePlus®

National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) has recently released a mobile version of MedlinePlus. This new service provides health information for the growing audience of mobile Internet users by optimizing MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español for display on mobile devices.

Note that Mobile MedlinePlus is a mobile Web site, not a mobile “app” (application).  NLM developed a mobile Web site to reach as broad an audience as possible and to be usable on a variety of devices.  It is available in English and Spanish and includes a subset of content from the full Web site. It also features:

• summaries for over 800 diseases, conditions and wellness topics
• latest health news
• illustrated medical encyclopedia
• information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications
• the search engine is powered by Vivísimo, the same technology behind the search on MedlinePlus

Visit Mobile MedlinePlus in English at http://m.medlineplus.gov and in Spanish at http://m.medlineplus.gov/spanish.