Designing and Conducting Health Systems Research Projects
This e-book is structured as a course, with 33 modules in two volumes. Volume 1 describes proposal development and field testing; Volume 2 looks at data analysis and report writing. The course was developed by the International Development Research Centre, Canada http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-33010-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Effective Health Care Alliance Programme
This site disseminates reviews of effective projects. It has links to full-text 'effectiveness updates' on malaria, infectious diseases, pregnancy and childbirth and professional practices. It is maintained by the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Review Group. http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/ehcap/introduction.html

Health Manager’s Toolkit
The site provides a selection of tools for health professionals to provide high quality and sustainable health services. The tools are organized by subject area and include spreadsheet templates, forms for data gathering, checklists, guidelines and self-assessment tools. The content is available in Spanish, Portuguese and French and is maintained by Management Sciences For Health, U.S. http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=1.0.htm&module=toolkit&language=english

Human Resources for Health Dossier
The site describes how to develop human resources to improve health service delivery for poor people. It offers practical, up-to-date information and draws upon field evidence. The site is organized into broad subject categories and also contains a keyword search engine. This is a joint project of Health Systems Resource Centre and ELDIS, UK. http://www.eldis.org/healthsystems/dossiers/hr/

Innovative Technologies for Health Care Delivery (INTRAH)
INTRAH works to improve health care programmes and training in developing countries. The site is maintained by the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S. http://www.intrah.org/

Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
This site contains information about the organization and its projects. MSH is a non-profit educational and scientific organization that works to bridge the gap between science and public health. It currently has projects in 15 countries and works in the areas of primary health care, maternal and child health, family planning and reproductive health. The organization has developed an extensive ‘electronic resource center' (http://erc.msh.org/) for health managers. http://www.msh.org/

portable Knowledge Assessment Development System (pKADS)
This site is a link to an open source, portable version of the Knowledge Asset Development system (pKADS) developed by the United Nations Population Fund. This tool is used to capture and share knowledge within an organization, by creating and editing knowledge asset details (categories, questions and answers, objectives, resources, network members, etc.) on a computer. It would be applicable to numerous health related projects. http://pkads.bis.ucc.ie/

PubMed – Free Fulltext Articles on Health Systems (2500+)
This PubMed search will identify all health systems related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. ‘Health Links’ contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the ‘Specific Health Resources’ table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22health%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20health%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20systems%5BAll%20Fields%5D

Routine Health Information Network (RHINO)
RHINO promotes high quality and practical approaches to the collection and use of routine health information in developing countries. 'Routine health information' includes data such as patient records, epidemiological surveillance data, and vital statistics such as mortality rates. RHINO provides workshops, on-line forums, a web based bibliography, full text documents and a listserv. The project's participants include developing country governments, donor agencies and technical groups. It is a joint venture of the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation Project, the World Bank, and John Snow, Inc (U.S.).http://www.rhinonet.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php

World Bank: Health Systems Development
This site describes the World Bank’s policies and programs to foster good health and illness including sustainable financing and financial protection. It contains links to numerous fulltext policy statements and reports on public health and primary care topics. http://www1.worldbank.org/hnp/hsd/index.asp

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