Background Resources
Background resources relevant to MeTA are held in the Source international information support centre.
Visit the Source website to find these resources arranged in key lists on specific topics and to subscribe to an RSS feed, which will alert you when new resources become available.
Source is designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability for development. It is a unique collection of around 25,000 health resources, including books, journals, manuals, reports, posters, CD-ROMs, websites and organisations.
Below is are the latest resources, related to MeTA, to be added to Source.
Culture : hidden development
This is a practical working guide to culture and development for the international development sector. Through research ...
Suriname indigenous health fund (SIH Fund)
This is the website for a project which gives indigenous people in Suriname's interior Greenstone Belt region with the ...
WHO’s role and responsibilities in health research
This is a report on the meeting of the executive board about the 2008 Bamako call to action on health research - strengt...
A call for civil society engagement in research for health : input to the global ministerial forum on research for health
This call for action sets out a blueprint for strengthening the role of civil society organisations in research for heal...
Can communities influence national health research agendas? A learning process leading to a framework for community engagement in shaping health research policy
This paper is a record of a consultation on 'Communities Matter' which reviewed case studies of successes and failures o...
Community-based surveillance of antimicrobial use and resistance in resource-constrained settings|Report on five pilot projects
This document describes five pilot surveillance projects that were set up in India (three sites) and South Africa (two s...
Empowering communities for TB advocacy : the TAG-ICW model
This report provides activists, policy makers, and donors with lessons learned from two years of capacity building for H...
WHO model list of essential medicines for children
The medicines in this model list are intended for use for children up to the age of 12.
There is a core list of minimum ...
Essential medicines
This section of the WHO website provides resources, information and links relating to essential medicines. Essential med...
Counterfeit drugs kill
This leaflet describes how counterfeit medicines may endanger people's health because their quality is unpredictable. It...
