Public Health students should become familiar with PubMed, which is NIH's free version of MEDLINE.
This resource is freely available from the Internet. The Linkout feature, which is marked with an icon, provides access to the full-text of journals subscribed to by Appalachian State University Libraries.
Also see ph.cochrane.org, and here especially look at the 119 reviews on "Public Health." Cochrane reviews are known for being highest quality, but note the current dispute on their review on chronic fatigue syndrome.
The Cochrane Library is associated with the evidence-based practice movement in health care.
PLACES provides health and health-related data using small-area estimation for counties, incorporated and census designated places, census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) across the United States.
A portal to several CDC databases concerning health-related topics for public health information and numerical data sets such as AIDS/STDs, risk behaviors (the Behavioral Risk Surveillance System), mortality and natality statistics.
Only updated through 2011. This database contains data for Healthy People 2010, a framework of "national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats."
The U.S. government’s principal vital and health statistics agency. NCHS data systems include data on vital events as well as information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care. [Source: About NCHS]
(Online book in PDF)
Annual report on trends in health statistics. The report consists of a chart book that illustrates major trends in the health of Americans, and a trend tables section of detailed data tables.
Regular issues cover provisional birth, death, marriage, and divorce statistics. Four to six special issues are issued per year. These issues cover the final data on births for the previous year, and special topic analyses are issued from time to time.
This is the complete dataset for the 500 Cities project. This dataset includes 2013, 2014 model-based small area estimates for 27 measures of chronic disease related to unhealthy behaviors, health outcomes, and use of preventive services.
