Public Health Resources: Overview
Health Policy Resources
- National Conference of State Legislatures: Research & PolicyNCSL conducts policy research in areas ranging from agriculture and budget and tax issues to education and health care to immigration and transportation.
- National Academy for State Health PolicyExplore policy areas, topics, and follow state-specific developments with the state tracker.
- LawAtlasLawAtlas.org provides access to high-quality information about the contents and characteristics of laws and policies of public health importance.
Internet Sources
- Cochrane Public Health GroupPublishes Cochrane reviews of effects of population-level public health interventions.
- HealthMapHealthMap, a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Boston Children's Hospital founded in 2006, is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats
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Suggested Databases
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases from The Cochrane Collaboration, an international network that prepares, promotes and disseminates systematic reviews of health care interventions. Includes six databases: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR; Cochrane Reviews); The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE; Other Reviews); The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL, Clinical Trials); The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR); The Health Technology Assessment database; The National Health Service (NHS) Economic Evaluation Database.
- Global Health (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowGlobal Health is a international public health database with unique content in the areas of tropical medicine, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety, and epidemiology. Records cover books, book chapters, reports, conference proceedings, patents, theses, electronic-only publications, health standards, information from developing countries, and other difficult to obtain material.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowSearch more than 15,000 credible news, legal and business sources, including print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, newspapers, texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles. Formerly known as Lexis Nexis Academic.
- PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowA large interdisciplinary database that provides citations and abstracts for journal articles in thousands of subjects. Citation information is tracked back to 1996, allowing you to identify articles that reference earlier articles, calculate metrics such as the h-index and compare journal citation information.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowA large interdisciplinary database that includes the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.