POPLINE^®(POPulation information onLINE) contains citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the K4Health Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. (USAID).

POPLINE has nearly 370,000 records and has been maintained since 1973 by the K4Health Project (formerly INFO Project). The majority of items are published from 1970 to the present, however, there are selected citations dating back to 1827. The database adds 8,000 records annually.

In addition to free text searching, the database can be searched by keywords from the POPLINE Thesaurus , a controlled vocabulary of 2,400+ terms used to index documents in the database.

POPLINE's special features include links to free, fulltext documents; the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles; RSS feeds for topical searches; and many abstracts in French and Spanish.

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SUBJECTS Covered Internationally Include:

• Family Planning Methods
  Medical and behavioral methods used by individuals to have the number of children they want, when they want them.

• Family Planning Programs
  Organization, management, delivery, and evaluation of family planning services to people of reproductive age, including clinical services, community-based distribution, social marketing, contraceptive security, and improving access to and quality of family planning services.

SUBJECTS Covered in Reference to Developing Countries Include:

• Adolescent Reproductive Health
  Sexual and reproductive health of adolescents ages 11 to 19.

• Gender
  Health issues and related sociopolitical concerns stemming from the differing roles and statuses of women and men. Programs promoting gender equality in health and in the social, political, and economic environment affecting health and well-being.

• Health Communication
  Organized campaigns designed to instruct, disseminate information, or influence knowledge, attitudes, and practices of a population with regard to family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS or maternal-child health issues.

• HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases/Infections
  Prevention, control, transmission, diagnosis, epidemiology and treatment of HIV infections, AIDS, and diseases or infections which are transmitted primarily or exclusively through intimate sexual contact.

• Maternal and Child Health
  Programs promoting and furthering safe motherhood, child survival and the health of children under five years old.

• Population Dynamics
  Study of the short- and long-term changes in the size and composition of populations and the biological and environmental processes influencing those changes. Effects of fertility, mortality, and migration on populations.

• Population, Health and Environment
  Effects of overpopulation on ecology, natural resources, and environmental health. Effects of environmental changes on population health and well-being. Public health issues involving efforts to prevent and control disease by controlling the environment.

• Population Law and Policy
  Formal positions, legislation or decisions taken by governments and other public bodies toward reproduction, contraception, migration, and family size.

• Reproductive Health
  Reproductive morbidity; epidemiologic or descriptive research to assess the incidence, extent, or consequences of abortion; obstetrical aspects of .post-abortion care.