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Welcome to Richter Library's Resources Guide for Public Health! This guide is a great tool for finding information for research, collecting articles for classes, and broadening your knowledge of Public Health. Each tab contains current and relevent resources for assisting you in collecting the best information for your project, interest, or research.
Related Guides
- Global Public Health
- Nursing & Health Studies
- Nursing Practice & Research [Calder Library]
- Public Health [Calder Library]
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Databases
Healthcare Administration Database (ProQuest)
Healthcare Administration Database (ProQuest) 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.
LitCovid
From the National Library of Medicine (NLM), LitCov is the most comprehesive resource for scientific information on Covid-19. It provides access to PubMed articles, updated daily and categorized by research topic and geographic location for easy discovery.
Primary index to the international literature of nursing and health.
MEDLINE (OVID)
Comprehensive index to the international literature of biomedicine including clinical practice, psychosocial issues, health care administration, medical research, nursing, and more.
MedlinePlus
Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 750 diseases and conditions.
Web of Science
Coverage and comprehensive indexing of the journals, books, and proceedings in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts research literature published worldwide in journals and other serial publications.
Evidence Based Practice Resources for Public Health
Evidence Based Practice for Public Health provides a number of databases both free and subscription based. UM Library holdings include some of those that require subscription. Please look them up by title either in the Nursing and Health Studies Research Guide or place the title in the box search box below.
Nutrition Resources
American Diabetes Association
Recipes, fitness management, guidelines on selecting foods.
American Dietetic Association
Site for general public, health professionals, students, media. Some information available in Chinese and Spanish.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Healthy Weight
Assessing weight, losing weight, maintenance of healthy weight, physical activity, and health effects of overweight or obesity.
Food & Drug Administration (FDA): Food
Covers topics of food science, research, safety, recalls, alerts & labelling, baby formula updates, and more.
MedlinePlus: Food and Nurtition
Starting point for consumers and health professionals. Addresses topics such as vitamin A, food allergies, triglycerides, drinking water, and dietary supplements.
World Health Organization (WHO): Nutrition
Includes growth assessment and surveillance, nutrition in development and crisis, country-focused nutrition policies and programs and reduction of micronutrient malnutrition. WHO maintains WHO Global Database on Body Mass Index, WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition, Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System.
USDA: Food & Nutrition Information Center (FNIC)
Provides educators, health professionals and researchers access to trustworthy food and nutrition resources from both government and non-government sources.
Librarian for Public Health
Food Plate
MyPlate illustration of healthy food groups.
U.S. Federal Statistics
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Data & Surveys
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Data & Statistics
- H-CUPnet
- Health Services Research & Public Health Information Programs
- Immigration Data & Statistics
- National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses
- NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics)
- NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
- Office of Minority Health
- OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health)
- Public Health Partners
- United States Census Bureau
- United States Department of Agriculture
- WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)
State & Local Statistics
International Statistics
Other Health Statistics & Data Resources
- Global Health - The Statiscs & Data Tab guide
- Finding Health Data & Statistics [Cornell University]
- Data Resources [Weill Cornell Medicine]
- Health Statistics US [University of Michigan]
NMWR Supplements
MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) spplements. The first report, Public Health Then and Now, is a history of U.S. public health over the past 50 years. To view supplements other than those listed below visit the CDC's MMWR site.
Organizations
- American Cancer Society
- American Heart Association
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- Global Digital Health Network
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- International Organization of Migration
- John Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
- Pew Charitable Trusts, Health Group
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- US Depatment of Health & Human Services (US HHS) & Related Agencies
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