Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information

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Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information
Established1967 Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.paho.org/bireme
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The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information or BIREME was founded in São Paulo in 1967 as the Biblioteca Regional de Medicina,[1][2] a specialized center of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) / World Health Organization (WHO).[3]

BIREME coordinates the development of the Virtual Health Library model which includes access to around 30 million references to scientific and technical literature in the four official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean.

  1. ^ Regional Library of Medicine, hence the acronym
  2. ^ Neghme, Amador (1972). "Biblioteca Regional de Medicina de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud. Un Centro para Comunicaciones Científicas Biomédicas al servicio de la América del Sur". Acta Médica Peruana. II (1): 77–80. ISSN 1018-8800. [verification needed]
  3. ^ Pires-Alves, Fernando (June 2008). "Informação científica, educação médica e políticas de saúde: a Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde e a criação da Biblioteca Regional de Medicina - Bireme". Ciência & Saúde Coletiva. 13 (3): 899–908. doi:10.1590/S1413-81232008000300012. ISSN 1413-8123. PMID 18813583.