Public Health Toolkit

MEDLINE

Life sciences journal and meeting literature

(Ebsco) Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

(Ovid) EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmacological database indexing 5,000 journals from over 70 countries.

(Ovid) Bibliographic coverage of the literature in international public health. 1910-

Search engine for PubMed, Cochrane, SciELO, and regional indexes and directories including AFRO, EMRO, LILACS, PAHO, WHOLIS, and WPRO.

Multidisciplinary database covering journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with searchable cited references.

US and global news sources.

Tutorial from University of Michigan Health Sciences Library

Searchable compilation of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports, guidelines, and health data for disease and demographic groups. Includes surveillance data, Healthy People 2010, MMWR, and ohter CDC publications.

Interactive health statistics web site that can produce numbers, rates, graphs, charts, maps, and county profiles using various demographic variables (age, sex, race, etc.) from birth, death, cancer, and population datasets for the state and counties or regions.

State, regional and national level discharge data, available for purchase. Includes State Inpatient Databases (SID), State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD), State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), and Kids' Inpatient Database (KID). Free tools include AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), Clinical Classifications Software (CCS), Comorbidity Software, and HCUPnet, a web interface to free HCUP data.

Wide variety of health-related statistics, including Fastats A-Z

Provides instruction on issues related to information access and management. Sponsored by Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce.

AHRQ publication that tracks U.S. health care quality by State.

Collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries.

National Library of Medicine.

Information, learning resources, and online tools for front-line public health practitioners.

Decision-making tool for agencies to customize the collection, description, management and retrieval of critical public health information.

Links to selected resources and services of interest to epidemiologists, including agencies, associations and professional organizations, degree programs, special training programs, and publications.

Global disease alert interactive map. Children's Hospital Informatics Program. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology.

Literature, news and tutorials regarding health policy issues, research methodology and government. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Nine online tutorials on topics such as evidence-based public health, searching public health literature, and finding health statistics.

Public Health, Seattle and King County. Links to public health websites, EBM public health information, guidelines, best practice resources, health articles databases, free ejournals.

Software tool to compile inventories of health care and emergency resources.

Directories of people and organizations in public health. Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce.

WWAMI state employee directories and public health contacts, and DHHS employee directory. Northwest Center for Public Health Practice.

(Oxford Reference Online)

(Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Grey literature report and web links, New York Academy of Medicine

A comprehensive index to dissertations and theses from all fields of study, 1861-present. More than 1 million full text dissertations available, most from 1997 forward, with a strong retrospective collection for older works.

ResearchWorks is a permanent, safe service for providing access to articles, technical reports, datasets, images and other file types produced at the University of Washington by faculty and researchers.

Bibliographical references of reports, doctoral dissertations, conference papers, and other grey literature produced in Europe.

A collection of more than 120 online reference books on statistics and probability published by CRC Press.

Information, learning resources, and online tools for front-line public health practitioners.

Former program of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. Products available on website include materials on social marketing, collaborative leadership, performance management, information technology, and public health law modernization.