Interactive Health Ecology Access Links (IHEAL)

Interactive Health Ecology Access Links (IHEAL) is an international information network to support public access to health and the environment information. The vision of IHEAL is to create a global network of independent community monitors who share scientifically qualified information over the Internet with environmental health activists, information technology professionals and members of the public.

The IHEAL Network has been in the forefront of promoting best practices in electronic information dissemination, using electronic access, Internet communication, and geographic information systems (GIS) technologies. IHEAL's website -- www.iheal.org -- provides user-friendly links to some 600 electronic databases and other resources for environment and health information. The IHEAL Environment & Health Internet Links Directory invites users to promote links to electronic information, creating a truly interactive method of updating and refreshing the site's database.

The UIA has been involved in the IHEAL project since its inception. Our own Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential project aims to map the connections between the problems humanity is faced with, and the strategies envisaged to address them. The Encyclopedia includes problems and strategies relating to environmental health, and it is this sub-set of information that the UIA has contributed to the IHEAL database.