Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (LILACS)

This virtual library is a comprehensive database of Health Sciences from Latin America and Caribbean Region. It has large number of records from peer reviewed journals, thesis and dissertations, government documents, books etc of those published since 1982.

This database covers systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, evidence synthesis, health technology evaluation studies, economic evaluation studies, clinical practice guidelines, technical reports, case reports and other materials of significance for health care professionals.

This site is maintained and updated by a network comprising of over 600 educational, government and health research institutions coordinated by BIREME/PAHO/WHO.

BIREME stands for Biblioteca Regional de Medicina also known as the Regional Library of Medicine. It is a specialized center of the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization committed to technical cooperation in management of health scientific information. This center is situated in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It promotes democratization of access, publication and use of scientific information, knowledge and evidence.

Read More about LILACS HERE

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

The PAHO is a specialized international health agency that works to improve and protect people's health. It engages in technical cooperation with its member countries to fight communicable and noncommunicable diseases and their causes, to strengthen health systems, and to respond to emergencies and disasters.

PAHO is committed to ensuring that all people have access to the health care they need, when they need it, with quality and without fear of falling into poverty. Through its work, PAHO promotes and supports the right of everyone to good health.

To advance these goals, PAHO promotes technical cooperation between countries and works in partnership with ministries of health and other government agencies, civil society organizations, other international agencies, universities, social security agencies, community groups, and other partners. PAHO promotes the inclusion of health in all public policies and the engagement of all sectors in efforts to ensure that people live longer, healthier lives, with good health as their most valuable resource.

Read More about PAHO HERE

National Librarians Day

 Dr. S.R Ranganathan (1892-1972) is a father of Library Science whose birthday that falls on August 12 is celebrated as Librarians Day in the country. His brief biography is available at Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organisation for those interested in learning more about him.

Excel & Tableau softwares help to transform data into powerful visualisation forms for its better understanding. Learn more about them  at BrightTalk

I learnt about yet another text mining tool- Distant Reader. This tool empower researchers to use and understand large amount of textual information residing in scholarly journals or the complete works of a given author and much more.  Further details are available at its site HERE.

There is Voyant Tools as well that provide almost a similar service. It offers an open-source, web based application for performing text analysis. This is for interpretation of texts and corpus supporting scholars in digital humanities. Read more on its site HERE

Need to keep pace with the analytic tools just like-understanding webometrics and sentiment analysis based tools. Found an interesting paper..A history of webometrics by Mike Thelwall

Came across this link and to learn about sentiment analysis here

Found an interesting blog Sustaining the knowledge commons

Political map of India 9th edition ,2019

Hyper authorship

Here's interesting papers on hyper authorship noticed in Nature journal

Hyperauthorship: global projects spark surge in thousand-author papers

Paper authorship goes hyper

About Predatory Journals: 

“Predatory journals and publishers are entities that prioritize self-interest at the expense of scholarship and are characterized by false or misleading information, deviation from best editorial and publication practices, a lack of transparency, and/or the use of aggressive and indiscriminate solicitation practices.”-Nature 576, 210-212 (2019) Read More HERE

Practicing Data visualization tools to find authors and authorship patterns from the published research articles available in PubMed on ''Malaria in India''

Article in Nature Journal:

Building a better malaria vaccine

Here are more tools to add to my learning:

Dimensions

The Lens

iCite

MeSH on Demand

Some of the  Information Science resources and tools to withstand agile information environment that I came across today are :

 Knowledge Unlatched

Scholarcy.com

Iris.ai

Paper Digest

Courtesy: Scholarly Kitchen

Interesting reads:

Should we use AI to make us quicker and more efficient researchers?

29 states and UTs have signedMoU for implementation of Ayushman Bharat - PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaAbhiyan (AB-PMJAY): J P Nadda 

“29 states and UTs have signed the MoU and have started working on implementation of the PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojna.The pilots have started in 16 States / UTs. Other states/UTs will also start pilots before fully launching the scheme on 25thSeptember.” This was stated by Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfareduring a press conference on Ayushman Bharat - PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojna (AB-PMJAY), here today, while addressing the media. ShriAshwini Kumar Choubey and SmtAnupriya Patel, Ministers of State for Health and Family Welfare along with ShriInduBhushan, CEO, AB-NHA were also present at the press conference. Read More HERE

Study conducted by AIIMS centre: Over 16,000 poisoning calls in 10 years, kids most vulnerable

The study analysed 16,420 calls received by the NPIC between April 2006 and March 2016. NPIC was established in 1995 at AIIMS to combat acute poisoning, which doctors said was among the most common medical emergency in the world.To know more read HERE

Hospitals in the Country

How many hospitals are there in the country?

There is no source available to know the exact number of hospitals and beds available there in the country. However as per the World Bank data available in the link‘https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS’, beds per 1000 Population in India are less than a number of countries.

Public health & Hospitals being a State subject, State Governments are primarily responsible for up-keeping, providing health care to people and maintaining information of hospitals. However, the following information is given in below:
Number of Primary Health Centers(PHCs), Community Health Centers(CHCs), Sub-District/Divisional Hospitals(SDHs), District Hospitals(DHs) and beds, India, State/UT wise as uploaded by the State/UTs on the Health Management Information System (HMIS) portal of the Ministry.
Number of Govt. Hospitals and beds in Rural and Urban Areas, India, State/UT wise, as available in the Publication National Health Profile 2018.
Number of AYUSH hospitals and beds State/UT-wise, as provided by the Ministry of AYUSH.

For more information read HERE