Public Health Resources

Library Staff
Biomedical Databases
Data Source
Grants and Funding
Grey Literature
Interdisciplinary Databases
International Statistics
Internationally Produced Literature
Legal & Public Policy
Local Statistics
Nutrition
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Psychology & Social Sciences
Organizations

Public Health Librarians

Donna Hesson, MLS
Public Health Librarian/ Manager
Lilienfeld Library
dhesson@jhmi.edu
410-955-3028
410-955-0200 fax

Lori Rosman, MLS
Public Health Informationist
Welch Medical Library
Welch Office 213
lrosman@jhmi.edu
410-614-1286

Claire Twose, MLIS
Associate Director, Public Health and
Basic Science Liaison Services
Welch Medical Library
ctwose1@jhmi.edu
410-502-0490

Katie Vizenor, MLS, MA
Public Health Informationist
Welch Medical Library
Welch Office 208
kvizenor@jhmi.edu
410-614-6298

Liaison Departments:

» Distance Education

» Faculty Senate
» Health, Behavior & Society
» Health Policy & Management

» MPH Program

» Mental Health

Liaison Departments:
» Biostatistics
» Distance Education
» Environmental Health Sciences
» Population, Family & Reproductive Health
» Preventive Medicine Residents (BSPH)

Liaison Departments:
» Health Policy & Management
» Population, Family & Reproductive

Health

Liaison Departments:
» International Health
» Epidemiology

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Biomedical Databases

PubMed Access to the biomedical literature provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
EMBASE European database providing access to the biomedical literature
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Cochrane Library

Global Health Brings together the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS
PASCAL PASCAL BIOMED, compiled by INIST (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique), is a subset of PASCAL, a multidisciplinary, bibliographic database
NLM Gateway Simultaneously search the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) key resources: PubMed, the NLM's catalog, toxicology resources, scientific meeting abstracts (including AIDS and Health Services Research conferences), Medlineplus (consumer health information) and more
Gideon Online (Epidemiology)

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Data Sources

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Grants and Funding

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Grey Literature

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Interdisciplinary Databases

Web of Science Covers biomedical, social science, and arts and humanities literature. Supports citation searching, coverage back to the mid 1970s
SCOPUS Covers biomedical, social science, and arts and humanities literature. Complete coverage to 1966. Cited references only available to 1996
Academic Search Premier
WorldCat

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Internationally Produced Literature

Global Health Library - Access to a variety of internation sources, including all the regional indexes (AFRO, EMRO, LILACS, PAHO, SEARO, WHOLIS, and WPRO), Cochrane free abstracts, Medline and world health information news
Virtual Health Library - A collaboration of BIREME, WHO and PAHO
LILACS Latin American Region Literature, direct link
Africa-Wide NiPAD - An electronic information resource that is an aggregation of 40 bibliographic databases from around the world. Databases include Index to South African Periodicals, Ibiscus, the database form the Africa Institute, African Journal Online, Media Africa, and NAMLIT which is compiled from the National Library of Namibia.
ELDIS - Browse more than 26,000 summarized documents from over 7,500 development organizations - all available free to download.
African Index Medicus (AIM) - The World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA), has produced an international index to African health literature and information sources.
IMEMR - A cumulative index, covering the period 1987-1990, to over 9000 articles in the health sciences published by journals within the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. By documenting key bibliographic data for these articles, the index aims to increase awareness of research being conducted in this region and thus improve knowledge about the region's health problems as depicted in its local health literature.
SEARO - South-East Asia Regional Office of the World Health Organization. Covers information relating to that region of the world.
IndMED - A database covering prominent peer reviewed Indian biomedical journals. Database designed to provide medical professionals/researchers/students and the medical library professional quick and easy access to Indian literature.

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International Statistics

African Population Database Documentation
Asia Population Databases
Europa
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Global Pop Distribution Database
CancerMondial Click on GLOBOCAN 2002 link at top right to reach statistics on cancer by country, type or cancer and gender, from the International Agency on Cander
Library of Congress Country Studies
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
UNICEF
WHOSIS: WHO Statistical Information System

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Legal & Public Policy

Evidence Inform Policy Network (EVIPNet) - The EVIPNet portal provides access to poicy briefs, reports, and research synthesis to promote the systematic use of health researcgh evidence in policy-making.
Find Law [FREE/OA] - Contains comprehensive links to U.S. legal resources, such as cases and codes, code of Federal Regulations, Supreme Court Opinions, state resources, foreign and international resources, law schools, law firms, abstracts of journal articles, a legal dictionary, tax forms, and many more.
Health Hippo [FREE/OA] - Health Hippo is a collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care.
Legal Periodicals Full Text - Cites articles from more than 615 legal periodicals and indexes some 2000 law books per year. Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications.
LEXIS NEXIS Academic - LexisNexis Academic provides acces to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical and reference information.
LEXIS NEXIS Congressional - Explore government in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for Congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal research.
PAIS International - Database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Provides selective subjects & bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, grey literature, government publications, Internet resource, and other publications from 120 countries.
PAIS Archive - Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Contains more than 700,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976.
Public Health Partners Legislation & Policy Links - A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health science libraries.
Westlaw Campus - Westlaw Campus is a subscription service that offers online access to legal materials including statutes from all 50 states and federal statutes published in the United States Code Annotated, federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations, annotations from American Law Reports, a publication containing attorney-written articles that summarize and analyze case law on a particular legal issue, articles from American Jurisprudence 2d, a comprehensive encyclopedia of state and federal law and articles from law reviews and journals.

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Local Statistics

Online Demographic and Related Information on Baltimore City Neighborhoods

Baltimore City Department of Planning
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance Neighborhood information from the University of Baltimore, The Jacob France Institute
Baltimore Neighborhoods from the City of Baltimore Web site
Baltimore Metropolitan Council
Citizen Resources City services, news services, elected officials, libraries and more
Enoch Pratt Library Baltimore Neighborhood Information, including community profiles
Live Baltimore Information from non-profit committed to promote city living
Maryland Historical Society Library Primarily 19th century and earlier information on Baltimore and Maryland
Maryland State Data Center
Hopkins Historical Census for Baltimore City (from 1970-2000)
United States Census Bureau
Visit Eisenhower's Statistical Resources - Demographics.
This link takes you to a list of the myriad of ways to access Census of Population and Housing data.
With most of these sources you can extract data for Baltimore. With some of the sources, such as American FactFinder you can extract data down to the census tract level and smaller geographies.
Urban Health Institute Resources about Baltimore from the JHU Urban Health Institute

Baltimore Socio-Economic Data

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Nutrition

Nutrition.gov: provides easy access to the best food and nutrition information from across the federal government. Serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers.
CDC--Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center: Nutition and Dietetics
USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center
North Dakota Extension Service: Emphasis on Nutrition
American Dietetic Association

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Occupational and Environmental Health

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration : OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health.
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS):The Fatality Analysis Reporting System contains data on all vehicle crashes in the United States that occur on a public roadway and involve a fatality in the crash
National Center for Statistics and Analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: The National Center for Statistics and Analysis is responsible for providing a wide range of analytical and statistical support to NHTSA and the traffic safety community.
Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN): CIREN is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of research on crashes and injuries at eight Level 1 Trauma Centers linked by a computer network. Six of these Centers are funded by NHTSA, one by Honda R&D Co. Ltd. and another by Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Level 1 Trauma Centers are traditionally "teaching" institutions associated with a university.
Environmental Protection Agency
- EnviroFacts: a single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data. This website provides access to several EPA databases to provide you with information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States. With Envirofacts, you can learn more about these environmental activities in your area or you can generate maps of environmental information.
CDC-ATSDR: The mission of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), as an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is to serve the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing trusted health information to prevent harmful exposures and disease related to toxic substances. The website has information on Hazardous Substances, Emergency Response, Measuring Health Effects, Education & Training and other topics.
ToxNet Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases
Scorecard: is the web's most popular resource for information about pollution problems and toxic chemicals. Find out about the pollution problems in your community and learn who is responsible. See which geographic areas and companies have the worst pollution records. Identify which racial/ethnic and income groups bear more than their share of environmental burdens.
The Right-To-Know Network:a service provided by OMB Watch, provides free access to numerous environmental databases. With the information available on RTK NET, you can identify specific factories and their environmental effects, and assess the people and communities affected

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Psychology & Social Sciences

Sociological Abstracts Contains abstracts of the literature of sociology and the related social sciences from domestic and international journals.
PsycINFO PsycINFO covers behavioral sciences and mental health literature for psychiatry, psychology, management, business, education, sociology, neuroscience, law, medicine and social work.

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Organizations

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(This is a a select list, click here for a complete list of Welch e-journals and databases.)

Last Updated: August 7, 2009 Donna Hesson