Public Health

• Provide a convenient listing of books, journals, and other essential resources used in public health.
• Help users access these essential resources through the Calder Library.

• Email: reference@miami.edu
• Phone: 305-243-6648
• Ask a Librarian: http://calder.med.miami.edu/librarianask.html

• PubMed
  Database produced by NLM (National Library of Medicine) containing bibliographic references, including abstracts of articles from thousands of bio medical journals.
• Embase
  EMBASE, from Elsevier Life Sciences Solutions, provides extensive coverage of international biomedical journals and conferences and is a key resource for generating systematic reviews, making informed decisions in evidence-based medicine, and for post-market surveillance of drugs and medical devices.
• CINAHL Plus
  Primary index to the international literature of nursing and health.  CINAHL Plus provides a wide scope of nursing and allied health journals as well as a high number of records, full-text, and cited references.  In addition, it provides full-text evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and continuing education modules.
• Grey Literature Report
  Grey Literature acquisitions of the New York Academy of Medicine.
• PsycINFO
  Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, in behavioral science and mental health. Citations and summaries date back to early 1800s; journal coverage from 1887 to present. From the American Psychological Association.
• Web of Science
  The Web of Science is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You get integrated access to high quality literature through a unified platform that links a wide variety of content with one seamless search.

• Health Services Research (HSR) PubMed Queries
• PubMed Health Disparities Search
• PubMed Special Queries

• Cochrane Library
• The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide)
• Health Evidence
• MMWR Recommendations and Reports
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice)
• USPSTF Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
• What Works for Health (RWJF)

• Grey Literature Report
• Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality
• Science.gov

• Find Public Health ebooks at Calder

• Encyclopedia of Public Health
• Dictionary of Epidemiology
• A Dictionary of Statistics
• A Dictionary of Biomedicine
• The Oxford Companion to Medicine

• CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Current Controlled Trials
• NIH RePORTER (formerly CRISP)

MEDLINEPlus

Asian American Health

Consumer Health Information in Many Languages

EthnoMed

Native Health Database

NIH News in Health

Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health

• Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
  Provides descriptions of tests, manuals, rating scales and other instruments used to assess health and behavior. The information can assist researchers and others in locating a variety of instruments used in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, education, and library and information science. The service contains primary and secondary material, such as checklists, interview schedules, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques.

• America's Health Rankings
  Longest running annual assessment of the nation`s health on a state-by-state basis.
• CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator
  An interactive web application that produces health profiles for all 3,143 counties in the United States.
• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
  The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program is a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute designed to provide a reliable, sustainable source of local health data.
• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
  The project uses Medicare data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians.
• FLHealthCHARTS
  Health data provided by the Florida Department of Health.
• Florida Health: Statistics & Data
  Lists of statistics and data provided by the Florida Department of Health.
• Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts
  State Health Facts is a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and provides free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the United States, counties, territories, and other geographies, comprised of more than 800 health indicators.
• QuickFacts: Miami-Dade County
  QuickFacts from the Census about Miami-Dade County.
• State & County QuickFacts
  Fast, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography from the U.S. Census.
• State Cancer Profiles
  Dynamic views of cancer statistics for prioritizing cancer control efforts across the nation.

• Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
  Research findings, data and statistical tools, and reports and publications from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ).
• American FactFinder
  Population, housing, economic, and geographic data in the form of maps, tables, and reports from a variety of Census Bureau sources.
• American Hospital Directory
  Provides data, statistics, and analytics about more than 7,000 hospitals nationwide from both public and private sources including Medicare claims data, hospital cost reports, and commercial licensors.
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Systems
  Tracks health issues such as asthma, diabetes, health care access, alcohol use, hypertension, obesity, cancer screening, nutrition and physical activity, tobacco use, and more.
• Cancer Facts and Statistics
  Provides the most current information about cancer, including projections of the number of cancer cases and deaths expected in each state and in the nation in the current year.
• CDC Data & Statistics
  Data and statistics by topic provided by the CDC along with other tools and resources.
• CDC WONDER
  Utilizes a rich ad-hoc query system for the analysis of public health data.
• Census Bureau
  Demographic data on national, state, county levels.
• Census Bureau: Health
  The Census Bureau's portal for health statistics. Includes statistics on disability expenses and investments, fertility, health insurance, HIV/AIDS, and more.
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  Research, statistics, data, and systems from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
• FastStats
  Provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance, organized alphabetically.
• HCUPNet (Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project)
  Provides health care statistics and information for hospital inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory settings, as well as population-based health care data on counties.
• HealthCare.gov Data
  Datasets provided by HealthCare.gov (website for the American Health Insurance Marketplace).
• HealthData.gov
  Website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services containing health data.
• Healthy People 2030
  Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade.
• Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics
  National data on morbidity, mortality and risks; quality of care; medical procedures and operations; and costs associated with the management of heart disease, stroke, and other vascular diseases.
• MedlinePlus: Health Statistics
  The health statistics portal at MedlinePlus, with basic information, resource lists, and more.
• MMWR
  Presents public health data on reportable diseases such as AIDS, hepatitis, COVID-19 along with articles on specific epidemiological topics.
• National Center for Health Statistics
  The Nation's principal health statistics agency provides data and reports on a wide range of health topics. Select Faststats for quick access to summary data.
• National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
  Acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
  Program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States.
• NCHHSTP AtlasPlus
  Tool to explore data reported to CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP)
• Neighborhood Atlas
  Map-based measures of neighborhood disadvantage with downloadable dataset provided by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
• NIOSH Data and Statistics Gateway
  Data and statistics from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
• SAMHSA Data and Dissemination
  Data on drug use and health, provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ).
• Vital and Health Statistics Series
  Each series presents data analyses for a data collection system or a family of related systems.
• Vital Statistics of the United States
  Annual reports that present detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage, and divorce, from 1890 to 2003.
• WISQARS
  Interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data.
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
  Tracks health issues such as injuries and violence, tobacco use, alcohol & drugs, sexual behaviors, dietary behaviors, physical activity, general health, asthma, and more.

• Demographic and Health Surveys
  National and sub-national data on family planning, maternal and child health, child survival, HIV/AIDS/STIs, infectious diseases, reproductive health, and nutrition.
• OECD Data
  OECD data via charts, maps, tables and related publications, viewable by topics or countries.
• The World Bank: Health Data
  The World Bank's comprehensive database of Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) statistics.
• UN Data
  Statistical profiles of countries, datasets, and more.
• UNICEF Statistics
  The global go-to for data on children, provided by UNICEF.
• WHO Data Collections
  Wide range of data collections related to global health and well-being as mandated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
• World Bank Open Data
  Free access to global development data from the World Bank.

• Writing Center

• SAS
  SAS software can provide an analysis of variance and linear regression to exact methods and statistical visualization techniques for both specialized and analytical needs. Click on this link to download SAS.
• SPSS Statistical Package
  IBM SPSS is a comprehensive statistical software program. Click on this link to download SPSS.