Global Public Health

• CINAHL Plus
  Primary index to the international literature of nursing and health.
• Embase
  Provides medical literature including information not covered elsewhere. More international than Medline (PubMed)
• Healthcare Administration Database (ProQuest)
  Healthcare Administration Database (ProQuest) is a comprehensive full-text database covering a wide range of health topics, including global public health, health administration, healthcare workers, hospitals, statistics, policy, finance and more.
• PubMed - US National Library of Medicine, NIH
  Provides access to citations for biomedical articles from Medline and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles.
• Web of Science Citation Indexes
  Database for peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals (including Open Access journals) in over 250 sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities disciplines. Conference proceedings and book data are also available. Also the lead providers in bibliometrics,of funding data, citation impacts, & h-indexes.

• Gale In Context: Global Issues
  Provides analysis of global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.
• ProQuest Research Library
  Provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subjects including global health.
• ScienceDirect
  Provides full text of journal articles (including Open Access) and book chapter groups in four main sections: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences & Humanities.

The following sites offers publication mostly in Spanish. Information on the home and other webpages can be changed to English or Portugese (upper right corner.) This is not a commerical resource. Fits under Grey Literature - see GL tab for more. 

Virtual Health Library (VHL) Regional Portal
(See bottom left corner for Direct Access to journals, thesaurus, systematic reviews, etc.)    
VHL provides health information from around the globe but is also the umbrella site for Latin American and Caribbean regional publication. Provides access to LILAC and PAHO databases (direct access below) and Medline articles.

• Pan American Public Health Publications (PAHO)  Health care publications and information resources related to the Western Hemisphere's most pressing public health issues.
• Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe en Ciencias de Salud (LILACS)  Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences. For content details, see LILACS Bulletin.

• ProQuest Research Library
  Provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subjects including global health.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  Worldwide Political Science Abstracts indexes journal articles in political science and related areas(international relations, law, public administration, and public policy).
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
  SSRN is an interdisciplinary Open Access database offering abstracts and full articles at various stages of publication, including Preprint, In Review, and completed Peer Review. Create a free account to share your own work, or just browse and download material.
• Sociological Abstracts
  Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts research literature published worldwide in journals and other serial publications. Social Planning/Policy Development (SOPODA) is included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, housing, the environment and other social issues.
• Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
  Wilson Social Sciences Full Text indexes a wide range of social sciences journals.Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994; full-text coverage begins in January 1995.

• Agricultural & Environmental Science
  Provides abstracts of the world's research literature in agricultural and environmental sciences, providing comprehensive coverage from 1967 to the present. Includes the renowned AGRICOLA, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
• Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE)
  CEE is an open community working towards a sustainable global environment and the conservation of biodiversity. It seeks to promote and deliver evidence syntheses on issues of greatest concern to environmental policy and practice as a public service.

• Family & Society Studies Worldwide
  Provides abstracts of English language research in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development. The core database was produced by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR).
• Gender Watch
  Provides the full-text of articles in 175 publications focusing on gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Continually adds archival material, in some cases as far back as the 1970's with making this the repository of historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles and understandings over the last fifteen to twenty years.
• UN Life-Course Gender Gap
  From the UN Development Program, this dashboard contains 13 indicators that display gender gaps in choices and opportunities over the life course—childhood and youth, adulthood and older age. 

Lancet Global Health
Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm.
Global Health Matters
Global Health: Science and Practice 
Journal of Global Health 
Journal of Public Health
PLOS - Global Public Health Global Health
Global Public Health 
Public Health 

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    Remember to the results limit by: Date and Resource Type > Book 

Examples of Books:
Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health 2021  
Global Health 101 2020 
Global health in practice : investing amidst pandemics, denial of evidence, and neo-dependency 2022 
Ethical challenges in global public health : climate change, pollution, and the health of the poor 2021 
Illicit medicines in the Global South : public health access and pharmaceutical regulation 2022
Attention and Responsibility in Global Health: The Currency of Neglect 2022

 

• CDC Centre for Global Health
  CDC works with the WHO to promote public health and prevent infectious disease around the world.Many links to explore..
• Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
  A catalog to quickly find and share information about data and actual datasets for global health and demography.
• Global Index Medicus - WHO
  Provides global access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. 
• IPUMS International
  From around the world, IPUMS collects and preserves census microdata and documentation, harmonizes them. and disseminates free of charge.
• NationalMaster - Global Trends, Stats, & Insights for Healthcare
  Expenditures in health around the world.
• NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics)
  Major source of health statistics from the CDC. Links to tabulated state data.
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
  The international health agency (iha) of the Americas and the Regional Office for the Americas at the WHO (t. (It is the oldest iha in the world and the first to promote health research & education.) Utilize the tabs on the upper right side of the screen to fully utilize this site.
• OCED (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
  OCED helps countries achieve high-performing health systems by measuring health outcomes and using health system resources & analysis of policies that improve access, efficiency & quality of health care.  
• OCED iLibrary
  
• Public Health Partners
  Links with annotations to health statistics and data sets as well as resources to support data collection.
• UNData
  Provides access to UN statistical databases through a single entry point.
• UNICEF: Monitoring & Statistics
  Links to statistics globally and by country.
• UNICEF Research Publications & Reports
  
• United States Census Bureau
  Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
• USA.gov Data & Statistics
  
• World Bank Open Data
  Free and open access to global development data
• University of Michigan | Global Health Information & Resources - Data & Statistics
  Another rich list of Global Health Stat & Data resources.
• Statista
  The database provides researchers, the academic community, and business with direct access to relevant quantitative facts on health, agriculture, finance, politics, and many more areas of interest.

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  Lists Open Access quality controlled scientific & scholarly journals from around the world. 
• eldis
  Shares the best in development policy, practice and research. Content from over 7,500 development organisations - all available free to download.
• Global Health Edu. & Learn. Incubator at Harvard University
  A new framework for global health, which captures the interconnectedness between three elements: health conditions (problem), health determinants (context), and societal responses (solutions).  Click on Resources tab for publications.
• Global Index Medicus
  Provides global access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. 
• OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) iLibrary
  OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD, IEA, NEA, OECD Development Centre, PISA, and ITF.
• PAHO (Pan American Health Organization)
  Direct link to PAHO's publications related to public health issues in the Americas.
• PLOS Global Public Health
  Goal is to broaden the range and diversity of perspectives at the forefront of public health research and advance the health of all humankind.
• PLOS One
  Accepts research in over 200 subject areas including health and medicine. Submitted manuscripts are evaluated for  methodological rigor and high ethical standards. For other PLOS publications go to PLOS Journals 

• WHO Regional Office: Africa
• WHO Regional Office: South-East Asia
• WHO Regional Office: Europe
• WHO Regional Office: Western Pacific
• Pan American Health Organization

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  Non profit organziaiton that works with organizations and governments worldwide to improve health in developing counties.
• BIREME (Regional Library of Medicine | Latin Am.
  Special center of the PAHO/WHO for technical cooperation in health scientific informaiton. Located in San Paulo, Brazil, it offers several online resources for Latin Am. and the Caribbean region, including the Virtual Health Library (VHL),  the Latin Am.and Caribbean Health Science Literature (LILACS), PAHO Institutional Respository (IRIS), and more.  
• Carter Center
  The Center, partnering with Emory University, works to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering. Founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
• Global Citizen
  With all of these sites, look around for the search function and then articles, publications, or research, etc.
• Duke Global Health Institute
  The Duke Global Health Institute works to reduce health disparities worldwide through research, education and service. Formed in 2006 ... the institute brings together knowledge and resources from across the university to address the most important global health issues of our time.  
• Fogarty International Center (FIC)
• The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
  Global public/private partnership dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Since founding in 2002 is main source of finance for programs to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
• Global Health
  Provides policy guidance and coordination on refugee health policy issues, develops U.S. policy and strategy positions related to health issues and provides leadership and coordination for bilateral programs with selected countries.
• Kaiser Global Health Gateway
  Online clearinghouse for the latest data and information on the U.S. role in global health.
• United Nations Development Programme
  Global development network helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all activities, encourages protection of human rights and empowerment of women.
• OECD Health (Organization for Economic Cop-operation and Development

• Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
  An online exhibit from Harvard University Libraries' Open Collections Program, it tracks several outbreaks of contagious diseases using primary documentation. Highly recommended for its historical focus.

• Millennium Development Goals
• World Bank: Projects on Health
• Inter-American Development Bank--Health

• United Nation's WomenWatch: Women and Health
• PAHO: Gender, Ethnicity and Health Unit