Finding Public Health Information

Public Health databases

CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
Ebsco is a cumulative index to nursing and allied health articles from worldwide, scientific literature presented for the needs of health professionals. Good tutorial oon using CINAHL, from University of Florida

Cochrane library Heath Communication Network
Systematic reviews and other information that will assist in making diagnostic, treatment and other health care decisions.
For help use the Cochrane Library user guide

HEAPS: Health Education and Promotion System
http://www.prometheus.com.au/html_control/index_frame.htm
The HEAPS database contains information about Australian and New Zealand health promotion products and covers topics on regional and rural Australia, youth, ethnic communities, women's health and general practice. The database is no longer updated but may be useful for contact information etc. Choose Search HEAPS from dropdown Quicklinks box

MEDLINE via PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed Tutorial | Very good tutorial from University of Florida Another good guide to using PubMed from NNLM

Multi-discipline databases

Academic Search Premier EBSCOhost
Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage is multi-disciplinary.

Current Contents Connect (ISI)
This is a multidisciplinary current awareness web resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information of over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books.

Emerald Fulltext
A collection of over 42,000 searchable articles from over 100 management journals.  Subjects covered include Management, Human Resources Management, Library and Information Management, Marketing, Mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering.

Ingenta
IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 17 million articles from 28,000 publications, including 6,100 online.

Web of Science (ISI)
Provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Related databases

HealthWiz

The National Social Health Statistical Data Library, HealthWIZ, on CD-ROM is used to disseminate comprehensive population health related statistical databases, across the Australian health services sector, for the purposes of clinical research, policy development and health services planning, particularly in regional areas. NOTE: This database is not accessible via the Internet. but can be borrowed from the CDU library to be installed with the help of ITMS on local workstations

INFORMIT Databases provide access to Australian materials in areas relating to health across a wide variety of databases.

AUSThealth Indexes - Online Including AMI - Australasian Medical Index 1968 -, APAIS-Health - Australian Public Affairs Information Service – Health 1978 - ATSIhealth - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography 1900 - AusportMed 1989 - CINCH-Health - Health Issues in Criminal Justice 1968 - DRUG - Drug Database 1974 - H&S - Health & Society Database 1980 - HIVA - HIV/AIDS Database 1980 – and RURAL - Rural and Remote Health Database

APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service provides bibliographic and some full text access to articles from the social sciences and humanities.

Meditext is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on all aspects of health and medicine.

PsycINFO (EBSCOhost) indexes and abstracts journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.

Electronic journals on the web

E-Journal Portal is the CDU access point to all full text journals relating to health. This link is to the collection called Health Sciences: Public Health and Safety.

HighWire Press http://highwire.stanford.edu/
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with more than 1,300,000 free, full-text articles online.

Directory of Open Access Public Health Journals http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=21
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. As at April 06 there were over 70 journals

Synergy interface (Blackwell Science Journals) a full text journal database from Blackwell Publishers covering a range of disciplines.

Wiley Interscience features over 1000 journals, major reference works, online books and databases plus professional and management resources.

 

Web Sites

Collections of Public Health Links

http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/med/pubhealth/gen.html

http://www.public-health.adelaide.edu.au/research/internet_resources.html

http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/biomed/guides/public/publink.html

http://www.geocities.com/ball91au/phlinks/useful.htm

(previously hosted by by the QUT School of Public Health.)

Public Health Sampler Compiled by National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region (NN/LM PNR) Staff

http://nnlm.gov/pnr/samplers/pubhlth.html

http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/epidem/epidem.html

http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph/freephjournals.cfm

good example : http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/archive.htm

Public Health Information and Data Tutorial

Public Health Information and Data Tutorial provides instruction

for members of the public health workforce on issues

related to information access and management.

Clinical Knowledge Summaries

http://cks.library.nhs.uk/

A source of clinical knowledge for the NHS about the common conditions managed in primary and first contact care."At the heart of CKS are concise summaries on how to manage almost 500 clinical situations (scenarios) commonly encountered in primary and first contact care. These are underpinned by detailed up-to-date clinical knowledge on acute and chronic conditions, and disease prevention. So whether you need a quick overview or the full text on a topic, CKS can help."

Practical and reliable, it helps healthcare professionals confidently make evidence-based decisions about the healthcare of their patients and provides the know-how to safely put these decisions into action. Some access without need for password...

MAHSLIN Expert Searching Public Health

http://library.umassmed.edu/mahslin/resources/public_health.html

Brandy Kings collection of freely accessible databases for Public Health

The Resource Guide for Public Health Preparedness (USA)
a database of freely available online resources in the field of public health preparedness. This project is funded by the National Library of Medicine and developed by The New York Academy of Medicine.

WHO Country Profiles etc

 

Australian Public Health Links

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

http://www.aihw.gov.au/

The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet extensive…………….. http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/frames.htm

Australian Network of Academic Public Health Institutions (ANAPHI) http://www.anaphi.org.au

Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM)

http://afphm.racp.edu.au

Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA)
http://www.phaa.net.au/

Medical Services Advisory Committee
http://www.msac.gov.au

Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists
http://www.aioh.org.au/

Congress of Occupational Safety and Health Association Presidents (COSHAP) http://www.aioh.org.au/coshap/

Medical Curriculum http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~biomed/MedCurricStuff/Chapters.html

Health general

Bandolier

Bandolier, an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare, source of evidence based healthcare information in the UK and worldwide for both healthcare professionals and consumers.

Healthfinder (US)
HealthInsite: Quality Health Information (Australia)
MEDLINE plus (National Library of Medicine)
National Electronic Library for Health (UK)
National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD)
Oncolink® (University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center resource)

NICE  UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence-Public Health resources

Electronic Statistics Textbook This Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The Electronic Textbook begins with an overview of the relevant elementary (pivotal) concepts and continues with a more in depth exploration of specific areas of statistics, organized by "modules," accessible by buttons, representing classes of analytic techniques. A glossary of statistical terms and a list of references for further study are included.