Global Public Health

• ProQuest Health Management
  ProQuest Health Management 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.
• ProQuest Research Library
  ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
• CINAHL Plus
  Primary index to the international literature of nursing and health.
• Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe en Ciencias de Salud (LILACS)
  Full text and indexed articles from Latin American peer-reviewed journals and theses and dissertations. Most abstracts in Spanish/English or Portuguese/English. Full text in Spanish or Portuguese.
• 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.

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.)

Virtual Health Library (VHL) Regional Portal
(See bottom left corner for Direct Access to journals, thesaurus, systematic reviews, etc.)    
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
  ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
• CINAHL Plus
  Primary index to the international literature of nursing and health.
• 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.
• ScienceDirect
  Science Direct is a full text database offering journals and books from the leading scholarly publisher Elsevier. It has particular strengths in medicine and mathmatics, but its nine million articles cover a wide range of scientific topics. The collection stretches back to 1823 and includes prominent publications including The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron. ScienceDirect hosts over 2,500 journals and more than 33,000 books—over 13 million peer-reviewed publications (including Open Access journals) in science, technical information, and health. Note Nursing journals in Column 3 Health Sciences.
• Web of Science
  Provides current and retrospective indexing from science, social science, arts and humanities research journals published worldwide. Cited reference searching allows navigation forward and backward through the literature to trace a path of research. For instruction for use, see Database Tutorials box, directly to the right.
• ProQuest Health Management
  ProQuest Health Management 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.
• Health and Safety Science Abstracts
  Index to recent journal articles, government publications and other resources relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene.
• Health Reference Center Academic
  Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals, Health Reference Center Academic is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. With more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Health Reference Center Academic ensures that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health-related questions.
• Hinari Research in Health
  More about Hinari Research in Health

• Bio Medical Central
  BMC Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal about epidemiology of disease and all aspects of public health. Special focus is on the social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational correlates of health and disease, and the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on the community.
• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
  This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in a multitude of languages. There are now 4898 journals in the directory. Currently 2001 journals are searchable at article level.
• Hinari Research in Health
  HINARI Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and other info. resources. 
• Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe en Ciencias de Salud (LILACS)
  Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences. For content details, see LILACS Bulletin
• PLoS (Public Library of Science)
  Nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely available. PLoS open access journals include: PLoS Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Medicine, and more.
• POPLINE
  An international resource on family planning and related reproductive health and development.
• University of Miami Scholarly Repository
  The Scholarly Repository features selected research and scholarly works prepared by faculty, students, and staff at the University of Miami.
• WHO - Global Health Library
  Searches international regional medical indices, including Africa (AFRO), Americas LILACS (AMRO/PAHO), Easter Med EMRO), South-East Asia (SEARO), Western Pacific (WPRO)
• WHO - Global Health Observatory (GHO) Data
  Portal provides health statistics from its 194 members.
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations’ system. Site offers publications and data from around the world.

• ProQuest Research Library
  ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
• PAIS International
  PAIS indexes a wide range of literature on politics worldwide, public affairs, current events, international relations, public administration, marine policy, law and related topics.
• 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)
  Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. The Abstract Database contains information on over 66,400 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers.
• 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.
• Latin American Network Information Center
  LANIC facilitates access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 12,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet.

• Agricultural & Environmental Science
  A multidisciplinary database that indexes and abstracts the world's research literature in the fields of 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.

• Family & Society Studies Worldwide
  Family & Society Studies Worldwide (formerly Family Studies Database) indexes and abstracts 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). It contains all the records of the discontinued print version, Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature, plus abstracts which were never available in print. Additional resources are drawn from Australian Family & Society Abstracts produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
• Gender Watch
  GenderWatch indexes and provides the full-text of articles in 175 publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch contains archival material, in some cases as far back as the 1970's with additional archival material continually added, 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.

• Latin American Social Medicine Database: A Resource For Epidemiology
  This public health informatics case study describes the key features of a unique information resource intended to improve access to LASM literature and to augment understanding about the social determinants of health. This case study includes both quantitative and qualitative evaluation data. The LASM database uses Spanish, Portuguese, and English language trilingual, structured abstracts to summarize classic and contemporary works.
• Biblioteca Virtual de Salud: Desarrollo Sostenible y Salud Ambiental
  This portal, part of the World Health Organization's Biblioteca Virtual de Salud, brings together peer-reviwed articles, legislature, websites, and institutional information about the topic of "reducing health risks and promoting healthy environments where people live, study, work and play as an integral elemend of human security and sustainable development."
• 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.

• Statista
  Integrates over 85,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 10,000 sources onto a single professional platform. The database provides business customers, researchers, and the academic community with direct access to relevant quantitative facts on agriculture, finance, politics, and many more areas of interest.
• 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.
• IMF eLIBRARY
  The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates, and other economic and financial indicators.
• World Bank Open Data
  Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.

• FedStats
  
• Global Health Facts from Kaiser Family Fund
  Provides data by topic: diseases; health workforce and capacity; programs, funding and financing, risk indicators; demography and population; and income and the economy.
• Inter-American Development Bank: Statistics
  Organized in five sections: Key Indicators, Governance Database, Social Indicators, Trade Statistics and Country Indicators.
• NationMaster
  Source for statistics derived from CIA World Factbook, OECD, WHO, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO and additional sources. Data presented graphically.
• NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics)
  Major source of health statistics from the CDC. Links to tabulated state data.
• 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.
• Pan American Health Organization - Country Statistics
  Provides a selection of health data and statistics, analytic summaries of the health situation and trend and others information products at country level. Key messages, highlights and information products produced by country health teams will be also included.
• 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.
• United States Census Bureau
  Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
• WHO: Research Tools
  Includes links to burden of disease statistics and much more.
• World Bank Open Data
  Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.

• 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
  Works with organizations worldwide to improve health in developing countries. Focus is on discovering new insights to fight diseases and health problems, developing effective, affordable vaccines and medicines, and delivering proven health solutions to those needing it most.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Kaiser Global Health Gateway
  Online clearinghouse for the latest data and information on the U.S. role in global health.
• BIREME
  Specialized center at Pan American Health Organization, that provides full-text collections of open access networks such as SciELO and ScienTI VHL and databases such as LILACS, MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library.

• 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