Library Guides: Global Resource Systems Research Guide: Health

Health

These resources are offered as a, hopefully, useful subset of the many resources available on the topic. No effort is made to provide an exhaustive listing. Not every point of view will be represented – that is not the intent here.

If you are searching for scholarly journal articles related to this topic, there is additional information in the right-hand box on this page. The journal list is not inclusive. The best way to locate articles is to search one or more of the library's article indexes.

Global Health Council
“GHC is a membership alliance dedicated to saving lives and improving the health of the 2 billion people living on less than $2 per day. The organization is the collaborative voice of the global health community on global health issues; it convenes stakeholders around key global health priorities and actively engages key decision makers to influence health policy.”
Global Health Observatory Data Repository
“The GHO data repository provides access to over 50 datasets on priority health topics including mortality and burden of diseases, the Millennium Development Goals (child nutrition, child health, maternal and reproductive health, immunization, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected diseases, water and sanitation), non-communicable diseases and risk factors, epidemic-prone diseases, health systems, environmental health, violence and injuries, equity among others. In addition, the GHO provides on-line access to WHO's annual summary of health-related data for its 194 Member states: the World Health Statistics 2012.”
Health Data.gov
"HealthData.gov is a federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This site is dedicated to making high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers in the hopes of better health outcomes for all."
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation: Global Health Policy
"The Foundation's global health policy work focuses on providing the latest data and information on the U.S. role in global health to offer a comprehensive picture of the U.S. global health policy landscape, focusing on key issue facing policymakers, journalists, non-governmental organizations and others working in the global health arena."
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
"An independent global health research center at the University of Washington that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them."
Global Burden of Disease
From the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
U.S. Agency for International Development - Global Health
"U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's interests while improving lives in the developing world. USAID carries out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress at the same time it expands stable, free societies, creates markets and trade partners for the United States, and fosters good will abroad."
US Department of Health and Human Services - Global Health
"The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the U.S. government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans. HHS provides essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. The Office of Global Affairs (OGA) is part of the HHS Office of the Secretary. OGA promotes the health and well-being of Americans and of the world’s population by advancing HHS’s global strategies and partnerships and working with USG agencies in the coordination of global health policy."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Global Health
"For more than 60 years, CDC has used its scientific expertise to help people throughout the world live healthier, safer, longer lives. CDC's Center for Global Health coordinates and manages the agency's resources and expertise to address global challenges such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, emergency and refugee health, non-communicable diseases, injuries, and more."

Looking for scholarly articles?

Looking for scholarly articles? The most efficient way to find articles on a specific topic is to use an article index. Journals that have articles about this topic include:

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Global Public Health
International Journal of Epidemiology
Lancet
Zoonoses and Public Health

A good place to search for articles related to health/medicine is PubMed. Click on the link below for access.

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PubMed provides over 22 million citations for biomedical and life sciences literature, including: biomedicine and health, behavioral sciences, bioengineering, biochemistry, genetics, molecular and cell biology.
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