Health : Dominica
A listing of web sites that provide links to information about Dominica.
For additional information about Dominica at the Library of Congress, consult its online catalog (http://catalog.loc.gov).
The most important source for bibliography of books and articles concerning Dominica is the annual Handbook of Latin American Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/) produced by over 130 contributing editors under the editorship of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Additional coverage of journal articles can be found through a subscription to the Hispanic American Periodical Index (http://hapi.gseis.ucla.edu/). Both the Handbook and HAPI are available in selected libraries in book form. One of the major aggregators for links to a wide variety of subjects for Dominica is the University of Texas' LANIC (http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/dominica/). The major online source of health information are the databases of the World Health Organization, and with regard to Latin American and the Caribbean that source is the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Washington, D.C. PAHO is an international public health agency working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. They provide a variety of databases such as the Health library for disasters; the Adolescent Health database; and
REPIDISCA (Pan American Information Network on Environmental Health).
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