Canadian Health Network (CHN) is a national, non-profit, bilingual web-based health information service. CHN's goal is to help Canadians find the information they are looking for on how to stay healthy and prevent disease. Its mission is to “support Canadians in making informed choices about their health, by providing access to multiple sources of credible and practical e-health information.”
See http://www.canadian-health-network.ca/ (Canada)

Canada Health Portal is a web-based service of the government of Canada, providing links to many health agencies, organizations, research databases, and general information.
See http://chp-pcs.gc.ca/CHP/index_e.jsp?pageid=10042 (Canada)

Community Toolbox’s mission is “to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources.” The focus is on practical tools to improve community health and promote community development initiatives, with sections on leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, advocacy, grant writing, and evaluation. Each section includes a description of the task, advantages of doing it, step-
by-step guidelines, examples, checklists of points to review, and training materials. Also clear, easy-to-read theory on community development principles are provided.
See http://ctb.ku.edu (United States)

Health in Action is an Alberta, Canada-based on-line web site with databases of information about programs, research, people/agencies, resources, and tobacco reduction created and used by health promotion and injury prevention practitioners. See http://www.health-in-action.org (Canada)

Health Promotion Bookmarks/Hotlinks is health consultant Alison Stirling's compilation of links to health promotion pages across Canada. See http://www.web.net/~stirling (Canada)

IDM Best Practices for Health Promotion, Public Health and Population Health is a private web site aimed at using best practice to prevent illness and promote wellness for public health, population health, and health promotion. The web site contains resources, publications, and databases. See http://www.idmbestpractices.ca/idm.php (Canada)

Measurement Excellence and Training Resource Information Centre (METRICS) is a portal that links to 38 websites that provide hundreds of measures of health outcomes.
See http://www.measurementexperts.org/instrument/site_evals.asp (United States)

Policy.ca is a non-partisan resource for the public analysis of Canadian policy issues. The site’s purpose is to offer a meaningful forum for informed discussion for interested policy makers, members of the academiccommunity, and interested individuals. See
http://www.policy.ca/policy-directory/Policy_Organizations/Research_Institutes/Health_Care/index.html(Canada)

PubMed “is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.”
See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi (United States)

Social Determinants of Health contains links to a listserv on social determinants of health, research links, conference proceedings, and a publication list. See
http://quartz.atkinson.yorku.ca/QuickPlace/draphael/Main.nsf/h_Toc/add17a118af948d985256cd900682d5b/?OpenDocument (Canada)

Women’s Health Matters is a web site where “consumers will find the latest information, news and research findings on women's health, diseases and lifestyle trends. The site is updated several times a week and is a partnership of Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre and the Centre for Research in Women’s Health.”
See http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/ (Canada)