The
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level o ...
maintains the Global Index Medicus (GIM).
The GIM database draws into one reference source several WHO regional databases that cover bio-medicine and social welfare issues. Among these are: The
African Index Medicus – AIM (maintained by AFRO/WHO); the Scientific and Technical Literature of Latin America and the Caribbean –
LILACS
The Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (in Portuguese), acronym LILACS, and previously called Latin American Index Medicus,Piegas MH, Nowinski A. Index Medicus Latino-Americano: exemplo de cooperação técnica entre p ...
(maintained by AMRO-PAHO/WHO through its specialized center BIREME); Index Medicus for Eastern Mediterranean Region – IMEMR (EMRO/WHO); Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region – IMSEAR (SEARO/WHO); and the Western Pacific Region Index Medicus – WPRIM (WPRO/WHO).
The Global Index Medicus began consolidating the contents of the above listed databases in 2012.
References
External links
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GIM Multilingual Thesaurus
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Bibliographic database providers
Medical search engines
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