Public Health

Sources for background information

See also:

Health Systems Evidence (requires free registration) - Syntheses of research about governance, financial & delivery arrangements, and implementation strategies within health systems
DoPHER - Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews
Health Evidence - "Methodologically-sound reviews of health promotion and public health interventions published from 1985 to the present"
PDQ-Evidence for Informed Health Policymaking - Includes systematic reviews (syntheses) and overviews of reviews (synopses), with coverage including public health
CRISP: Cochrane Reviews Identified and Summarised for Policy

PubMed - Database containing MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, and other non-indexed citations
search also via MEDLINE on OvidSP (1946 -)
Global Health on Ovid (1910 -)
Cochrane Library - Cochrane and other systematic reviews of interventions (including prevention), clinical trials, econonmic evaluations, technology assessments
Web of Science - Multidisciplinary; cited reference searching

Ovid Healthstar (1975 -) - Health services, technology and administration research
PAIS - Public Affairs Information Services
Google Scholar - See the "How to" Tips for Searching
Scopus - Multidisciplinary; cited reference searching
Embase Classic+Embase on Ovid (1947-) - Biomedical and pharmaceutical database
TRID - Database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database
SafetyLit - Injury prevention literature; searchable database
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Online - Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Includes full text for many but not all entries

PubMed Special Queries - From the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), this page includes preformulated searches on a variety of topics including comparative effectiveness research, health disparities, health services research...
Environmental Health & Toxicology - Access to resources produced by the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (National Library of Medicine, U.S.)
Health Services Research & Public Health (National Library of Medicine, U.S.)
Structural Profile of Public Health in Canada - How "essential public health functions are organized across Canada."

GIDEON - Worldwide distribution of infectious diseases
Public Health Agency of Canada: Surveillance - "Lists surveillance reports, databases, and programs which monitor the status of Canadian health. Includes diseases (infectious and chronic), conditions, infections, and injuries"
Interactive Database Systems - CDC Surveillance Resource Centre
Inventory of Health Surveillance Databases 2009 (Assisted Human Reproduction Canada) - List of Canadian databases related to assisted human reproduction, reproductive, perinatal, infant and children’s health
EARS-Net Database - Information on the occurrence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in Europe

WHO Global Infobase - "Data warehouse that collects, stores and displays information on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO member states"

Institut national de santé publique Québec
Santécom - Quebec catalogue of public health resources; useful for finding grey literature
Public Health Agency of Canada
National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (NCCPH) - Aboriginal health, determinants of health, environmental health, infectious diseases, healthy public policy, methods and tools

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