Health content
Goal
First, a note about Health information learning as opposed to other types of learning Learning Health.
Our goal with health materials is a comprehensive database of health information. We've done some work on it's structure and ways of accessing such a resource, but it is a long way away. We are also focusing on specific sources of information and materials for eventual inclusion into a Health Database.
Books
- The Hesperian Foundation[1] has been gracious enough to supply us with the source materials for their popular publications and PDF's. We are in the process of adapting the books by the Hesperian Foundation into a format for the XO, and eventual inclusion into the Health Database
- Human Physiology : The wikibook project Human Physiology[2] is a good Health resource if not immediately applicable. It is instead a general reference introduction to Human Anatomy, which is also very important! Work is underway to cleanup, format and record an audio version of the Human Physiology text.
Images
We are compiling images (photos and illustrations) to aid diagnosis and to assist training of health concepts and techniques. See Health Images for how you can get involved with this project.
Links
Links to useful sites and repositories: The health coordination team at Health Sciences Online have put together the following spreadsheets, with 100s of URLs categorized by description, audience and topic: 1 of 5, 2 of 5, 3 of 5, 4 of 5, 5 of 5
Todo If someone is knowledgeable about wiki please use the gspread extension to make these visible directly
Getting Involved
If you would like to help contribute there is lots of editing, illustrating, writing, and many other tasks that need to be done. The best way to start contributing is to join the | mailing list. Please join and introduce yourself. We'll be glad to help you find a home with a project.
You can also put your name on the /People list (not an ideal solution, but fine for now).
