Bibliographic Databases
- PubMed MEDLINE
- CINAHL Plus
(Ebsco) Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature - EMBASE (Ovid) EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmacological database indexing 5,000 journals from over 70 countries.
- Global Health Bibliographic coverage of the literature in international public health.
- Global Health Library (GHL) Virtual Platform Search engine for PubMed, Cochrane, SciELO, and regional indexes and directories including AFRO, EMRO, LILACS, PAHO, WHOLIS, and WPRO.
- Web of Science Multidisciplinary database covering journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with searchable cited references.
- News Research / Article Databases US and global news sources.
Data Resources
- Statistics Resources on HealthLinks
- Statistics: Washington State
- CDC Wonder 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.
- EpiQMS Epidemiologic query and mapping system, Washington State Department of Health.
- HCUP: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Databases 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.
- National Center for Health Statistics Wide variety of health-related statistics, including Fastats A-Z
- Public Health Information & Data Tutorial Provides instruction on issues related to information access and management. Sponsored by Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce.
- National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) AHRQ publication that tracks U.S. health care quality by State.
Journals
Public Health Resources
- Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce Collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries.
- Health Services Research and Public Health Information Programs National Library of Medicine.
- Northwest Center for Public Health Practice Information, learning resources, and online tools for front-line public health practitioners.
- myPublicHealth Decision-making tool for agencies to customize the collection, description, management and retrieval of critical public health information.
- HealthLinks: Nutrition
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- HealthMap Global disease alert interactive map. Children's Hospital Informatics Program. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology.
- KaiserEDU Literature, news and tutorials regarding health policy issues, research methodology and government. Kaiser Family Foundation.
- Public Health Digital Library Public Health, Seattle and King County. Links to public health websites, EBM public health information, guidelines, best practice resources, health articles databases, free ejournals.
- Public Health Foundation (PHF)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Emergency Preparedness Resource Inventory Software tool to compile inventories of health care and emergency resources.
Directories
- Jobs in Public Health
- Finding People Directories of people and organizations in public health. Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce.
- Finding People in Public Health WWAMI state employee directories and public health contacts, and DHHS employee directory. Northwest Center for Public Health Practice.
Textbooks and Reports
- UW Libraries Catalog
- A Dictionary of Public Health (Oxford Reference Online)
- Encyclopedia of Public Health (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
- Google Scholar
- Grey Literature Page Grey literature report and web links, New York Academy of Medicine
- System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe (SIGLE) Bibliographical references of reports, doctoral dissertations, conference papers, and other grey literature produced in Europe.
- STATSnetBASE: Statistical Sciences Online A collection of more than 120 online reference books on statistics and probability published by CRC Press.
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University of Washington Departments and Services
- Research Centers and Institutes at UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine
- Resource Center for Health Policy
- Northwest Center for Public Health Practice Information, learning resources, and online tools for front-line public health practitioners.
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine
- Student Public Health Association
- Turning Point 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.