Appendix C:  Useful WWW/Internet Links

 
    The following WWW sites are just a sample of those relevant to this module; they have been chosen because they may provide data useful to students for a number of the activities in this module.  In addition, any of the various Internet search engines will also yield numerous sites of interest.  The URL addresses provided below were valid as of April 15, 1998.  Because websites often move, please verify these addresses before suggesting them to your students.
 

• CIESIN: Information for a Changing World

http://www.ciesin.org/
CIESIN was established in 1989 as a non-profit, non-governmental organization to provide information that would help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand their changing world. CIESIN specializes in global and regional network development, science data management, decision support, and training, education and technical consultation services. Site provides links to numerous demographic, socioeconomic, health, and environmental datasets.

• CIESIN Guide to Human Health and Global Environmental Change

http://www.ciesin.org/TG/HH/hh-home.html
Guide to help web-users find selected key documents and data sets vital to understanding the relationship between human health and global environmental change.
 
• Emerging Infectious Diseases

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/eid.htm
Journal from the National Center for Infectious Diseases that tracks trends and analyzes new and reemerging infectious diseases around the world.

• HIV/AIDS Information Outreach Project

http://www.aidsnyc.org
Information about HIV/AIDS, including medical, housing, drug approval, children, nutrition, and access to treatments.
 
• HIV/AIDS Data Animation Project

http://www.ciesin.org/datasets/cdc-nci/cdc-nci.html
Compilation of information from studies appearing in medical and scientific literature, presented at international conferences, and appearing in the press.
 
• Infectious Disease Weblink

http://pages.prodigy.net/pdeziel
A website dedicated to infectious disease resources on the WWW; provides links to numerous other websites.
 
• National Cancer Institute

http://www-seer.ims.nci.nih.gov/
Cancer incidence and survival data.
 
• Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health

http://sedac.ciesin.org/ozone
Contains a Human Health Data Resources service, providing access to State Cancer Registries in the United States, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries.
 
• Tuberculosis and Airborne Disease Weekly

http://www.homepage.holowww.com/x1t.htm
On-line newsweekly about TB.
 
• UN AIDS

http://www.unaids.org
HIV/AIDS figures and trends.  Students can find global and regional estimates of AIDS cases, as well as background information on the disease.
 
• World Health Organization

http://www.who.ch
Homepage of the World Health Organization with search engines and links.
 
• World Health Organization:  Emerging and Other Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control

http://www.who.ch/emc/
This site provides listings of reported disease outbreaks and the number of cases, as well as fact sheets about various diseases (e.g., cholera, dengue fever, ebola, influenza, etc.)