Knowledge management and health

Initiatives

The Africa Health Infoway

The Africa Health Infoway (AHI) is a system to support the collection of sub national health data and statistics for analysis, dissemination and use to support decision making in Health, and strengthen capacity of African countries to use information in decision making.

Knowledge Platforms for Clinical Care

Knowledge Platforms for Clinical Care provides the environment, technology platforms and learning methodologies that make 'learning by doing' in public health possible.

Modeling Physical Accessibility to Health Care (AccessMod©)

AccessMod© is a tool which has been designed in order to analyze physical accessibility and population coverage capacity of an existing health facility network and to provide potential solutions for scaling it up if necessary.

Sharing eHealth Intellectual Property for Development

The SHIPD programme provides free access to selected eHealth products and services, as appropriate, to developing country institutions.

Blue Trunk Libraries

The Blue Trunk Library has been developed by the Library of the World Health Organization for installation in district health centres in Africa as a means of compensating for the lack of up-to-date medical and health information. The collection, which is organized according to major subjects, contains more than one hundred books on medicine and public health.

INFORMATION PRODUCTS

World Health Report

WHO Bulletin