Global Health Portal

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Primary Databases

  • PubMed Spotlight on PubMed
    Covers 4,500 journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, health care systems, and pre-clinical sciences.
  • Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)
    Indexes more than 900 journals; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world. Its subject matter covers public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.
  • Global Health Library (WHO)
    Includes searches in Regional Indexes:

    AFRO - from the Regional Office for Africa. AFRO indexes WHO/AFRO technical documents, monographs and some African medical articles.

    EMRO - from the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

    LILACS - from the Regional Office for Latin American and Caribbean

    PAHO - from the Pan American Health Organization

    WPRO - from the Regional Office for the Western Pacific

    WHOLIS (described below)

  • PopLINE (Population Information Online)
    The POPLINE database on reproductive health provides more than 300,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. It includes links to free, fulltext documents; the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles; and many abstracts in French and Spanish. Certain features, such as indexes, may work best in Internet Explorer™.
  • Google Scholar
    Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
  • Web of Knowledge Spotlight on Web of Knowledge
    A combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data and author abstracts. Every item of significance is listed: articles, reviews, letters, notes, corrections, and editorials. In addition to access by author, title, and institution, it is also possible to search by cited authors and to find articles sharing one or more cited reference. It is possible to search the three databases independently or in any combination.
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Background Sources

  • WHO
    The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. The website provides access to country profiles; information about WHO projects, initiatives, activities, information products, and contacts; WHO publications; data and statistics sources; WHO programmes, partnerships and other projects.
  • Country Watch
    A combination of textual and statistical sources on more than 190 countries. Includes country reviews, which provides historical, political, economic, investment, social, and environmental overview of each country. Also included is a DataWatch portion, which allows you to display, cross-tabulate and download numeric data about the countries.
  • World Factbook
    Contains overviews of each country in the world, including brief data on geography, people, government, economy, membership in international organizations, communications, and defense forces. Maps and flags may be viewed in various formats.
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
  • Wikipedia
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News Sources

  • Global NewsBank
    Covers Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Pacific Rim, Central and South America and the Middle East, it is ideal for researching a wide variety of international developments related to politics, economics, science & technology, culture and business. The full-text news articles are from more than 1,500 international sources, including translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, periodicals and government documents.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
    Includes international and U.S. newspapers, ethnic and regional news sources, magazines, wire services, newsletters, trade journals, company and industry analyst reports, and broadcast transcripts. Advertisements, obituaries, graphics, and non-local (syndicated) features are typically not included.
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Statistics

  • WHOLIS Library Database
    Full text of WHO publications and documents is available free from WHOLIS, the WHO Library web database. WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985.
  • WHOSIS
    WHO's Statistical Information System
  • STATSnetBASE: Statistical Sciences Online
    A collection of more than 120 online reference books on statistics and probability published by CRC Press.
  • Globalhealthfacts.org
    from Kaiser Family Foundation

Library Liaison


Rhonda Sager

telephone:
262-2372
fax: 262-4732
rsager at library.wisc.edu

 

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Page last updated: February 23, 2012
Questions or suggestions? Contact Rhonda Sager