- Library Catalog
- Indexes, Abstracts, and Full-text Databases
- Books
- Statistics
- Journals
- Internet Sites
Library Catalog
Try searching using the following subject headings:- Medical Care -- (country name)
- Medical Care -- Developing Countries
- Medical Geography
- Medical Policy -- (country name)
- Medicine -- (country name)
- Medicine, State
- National Health Service (Great Britain)
- Public Health -- (country name)
- Social Medicine -- (country name)
- World Health
Indexes, Abstracts, and Full-text Databases
- Expanded Academic ASAP (1980-present).
- Look under Medical Care -- (country name) or National Health Insurance
- General Science Abstracts.
- Try subjects: Medical Policy -- International Aspects, Medical Policy -- (country name), Public Health -- International Aspects, Public Health -- (country name), World Health Organization.
- Health Reference Center (1994-present)
- Look under country name or medical policy.
- Ingenta
- MEDLINE
- PAIS International
- Try subjects: Health Planning, Medical Care, Public Health --Developing Countries, Public Health -- (country name), Medical Service --State.
- PsycINFO 1967 to Present
- PubMed
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Try subjects: Public Health, Health Planning, World Health Organization.
- Sociological Abstracts
Books
- Health of Nations(RA/411/G68/1999)
- International Handbook of Public Health. (Ref./RA/427/I54/1996)
- Covers Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, UK, and US.
- Oxford Textbook of Public Health. (Ref./RA/425/O9/1997/3 vols.)
- Look under country name in the index for volume and page references.
- Raffel, Marshall W. (ed.) Comparative Health Systems. Descriptive Analyses of Fourteen National Health Systems. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984. (Ref./RA/411/C66/1984)
- Covers Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, USSR, and the United States.
- Roemer, Milton I. National Health Systems of the World. Oxford, 1991. (Ref./RA/393/R593/1991/v.1)
- Covers mortality and life expectancy among countries; types of health systems; and health systems in industrialized, transitional, and very poor countries.
- Saltman, Richard B. (ed.) The International Handbook of Health-Care Systems. Greenwood Press, 1988. (Ref./RA/393/I558/1988)
- Covers Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Mozambique, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, USSR, and the United States.
Reference Source for Statistics (most are kept near Ref. Desk)
- Gale Country & World Rankings Reporter. (Ref./HA/155/G345/1995)
- see chapter 3, Health and Welfare
- The Illustrated Book of World Rankings. (Ref./HA/155/K87/1997)
- OECD Health Systems. Data from 24 Countries [Ref./RA/410/O35/1993/2 vols.]
- Statistical Abstract of the United States (Ref./HA/202/A3)
- See section 30, Comparative International Statistics
- World Health Statistics (Ref./RA/651/A485/1996)
- A publication of the World Health Organization, it includes a global overview, statistics on health professions and vital statistics, and causes of death.
- World Almanac (Ref./AU/67/N5/W7/2001) also online database
Journals
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
- Social Science and Medicine is an excellent scholarly journal indexed in Social Sciences Abstracts.
- World Health (latest three years in periodicals)
Internet Sites
- Center for International Health
Information - http://www.tfgi.com/cihi.asp
(Global Health Data Viewer (GHDV) software can be downloaded) -- country health profiles in pdf and text-formats for developing countries that receive USAID assistance, population, health, and nutrition links, CIHI publications to order online, health statistics for Africa, Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, and Eastern Europe - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - http://www.ifrc.org/
- Pan American Health
- http://www.paho.org/default.htm/
(Includes country health profiles) - Population Action International
- http://www.populationaction.org/
(Includes Why Population Matters, 1998, which has information on growth, economic, environmental and health issues) - State of the World's Children
2000 - http://www.unicef.org/sowc00/
maps, statistical tables, photos, selected programs described, violence against women and children, economic and demographic indicators, fertility/contraception, early child care and education. RealPlayer required for videos - World Health Organization
- http://www.who.org/
disease outbreaks, etc.
Prepared by Margaret Anderson/Ellen Paterson
Revised Ellen Paterson 6/2001