Literature and Guidelines

Resources to help you access the public health literature as well as links to titles from members of the Partners project.

Journal Article Databases

• health-evidence.ca - Searchable online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions.

• PubMed - Search the MEDLINE database's 12 million records of articles from biomedical, preclinical, nursing, public health, and health services biomedical, preclinical, nursing, public health, and health services research journals.

• PubMed Central - PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

• TOXLINE - Bibliographic database for toxicology that provides information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.

• Using Loansome Doc® - Learn how to order full-text articles through a local health sciences library.

• Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project - LINE search strategies to help you find articles related to specific Healthy People 2010 objectives.

• Science.gov - Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results. The advance search feature lets you search across PubMed, AGRICOLA and other databases.

• National Agriculture Library Catalog (AGRICOLA) - Provides citations to agricultural literature.

• Global Health Library (GHL) - The Global Health Library (GHL) provides access to information and scientific evidence on health, particularly in developing regions. The GHL is designed to create a global space to promote and connect local, national, regional and international flows of information on health.

• Canary Database - The Canary Database is a compilation of peer-reviewed research articles related to the use of animals as sentinels of human health hazards. This database contains information added by trained curators in addition to bibliographic records from MEDLINE and other well-known databases.

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Individual Journal Titles

• American Journal of Public Health - (American Public Health Association (APHA))  - The American Journal of Public Health is dedicated to original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health.

• American Journal of Public Health Archive - (American Public Health Association (APHA))  - Free full-text archive of articles available in PubMed Central

• Cases in Public Health Communication and Marketing - (George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services)  - Journal intended to advance practice-oriented learning in the fields of public health communication and social marketing.

• Core Public Health Journals - (Medical Library Association, Public Health/Health Administration Section)  - List of core public health journals organized by public health subject area that should be considered by all libraries serving public health organizations in any or all of the specialty areas covered.

• Emerging Infectious Diseases - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - Emerging Infectious Diseases is a peer-reviewed journal established expressly to promote the recognition of new and reemerging infectious diseases around the world and improve the understanding of factors involved in disease emergence, prevention, and elimination.

• Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) - (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS))  - Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to the effect of the environment on human health. EHP is a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

• FDA Consumer Magazine - (Food and Drug Administration) - Offers information on how to get and stay healthy. Also reports on current FDA activities.

• Health Education and Behavior - (Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)) 

• Job Safety & Health Quarterly Magazine - (Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)) 

• Journal of the Medical Library Association - (Medical Library Association (MLA))  - International, peer-reviewed journal that aims to advance the practice and research knowledge base of health sciences librarianship. Free full-text articles available in PubMed Central.

• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) 

• PloS Medicine - (Public Library of Science (PloS))  - International, peer-reviewed, open-access general medical journal covering all areas in the medical sciences.

• Preventing Chronic Disease - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - Preventing Chronic Disease is a peer-reviewed electronic journal established to provide a forum for public health researchers and practitioners to share study results and practical experience.

• Public Health Journals - (Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School)  - Provides access to a list free public health journals and journals categorized by public health knowledge domain.

• Public Health Reports - (Association of Schools of Public Health and U.S. Public Health Service, Public Health Foundation (PHF)) 

• Public Health Reports Archive - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - Free full-text archive of articles available in PubMed Central

• SOPHE Publications and Journals - (Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE))  - Health Promotion Practice, SOPHE's journal devoted to the practical application of health promotion and education.

• World Health Organization (WHO) Publications - (World Health Organization (WHO))  - Publications and journals from the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Newsletters

• AHRQ Newsroom - Designed to meet the needs of journalists and others who are interested in AHRQ's research

• APHA Section & SPIG Newsletters - (American Public Health Association (APHA))  - Newsletters from APHA Sections and Special Primary Interest Groups (SPIG). The newsletters provide articles on topics of interest to the Section/SPIG, links to relevant Web sites, information on obtaining professional resources, messages from the chair, and information on upcoming conferences and the APHA Annual Meeting.

• ASPH Friday Letter - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)) 

• CDC Public Health Law News - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Published by the Public Health Law Program, Public Health Practice Program Office, CDC

• E-Newsletter Resource - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - Electronic newsletters that may be of interest of the public health community.

• FDA & You. News for Health Educators and Students - (Food and Drug Administration (FDA) U.S.)  - An educational newsletter intended for use by health educators, secondary school students and their parents. It contains news about medical products from each of FDA's five Centers

• Health and Health Care in Schools E-Journal - (Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS)) 

• Inside HRSA - (Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA))  - Monthly newsletters about HRSA activities.

• The Institute Digest - (Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII))  - A quarterly newsletter from the Public Health Informatics Institute, provides news and new publications on topics related to health information systems and the growing demand for integrated systems.

• Kaiser Daily Reports - (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF))  - Daily online reports that provide summaries of news stories with links to original articles to keep you in touch with legislative, political, legal, scientific, and business developments in the areas of health policy, HIV/AIDS, and health disparities.

• The Link - (Public Health Foundation (PHF))  - Bulletin of the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice

• Maturity Health Matters: FDA Health News for Older Adults and Their Caregivers - (Food and Drug Administration (FDA) U.S.)  - This online newsletter about FDA regulated products is for older adults and their caregivers.

• MCH Alert - (Maternal and Child Health Library, Georgetown University)  - Weekly electronic newsletter that provides timely reference to research, findings, policy developments, recently released publications, new programs, and initiatives affecting the maternal and child health (MCH) community.

• The Nation's Health - (American Public Health Association (APHA)) 

• National Network of Public Health Institutes Newsletter - (National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI)) 

• NN/LM Newsletters - (National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM))  - Newsletters published by Regional Medical Libraries of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM).

• PH/HA News - (Medical Library Association (MLA)) 

• Public Health GIS News and Information - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) 

• Public Health Information Network (PHIN) News - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - Provides access to PHINews, a quarterly newsletter that shares information about the CDC Public Health Information Network (PHIN).

• Research Activities Online Newsletter - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - Announcements of Agency products and projects and summaries of research findings from studies supported by AHRQ.

• SOPHE Publications and Journals - (Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE))  - SOPHE's News and Views, a bi-monthly newsletter on the latest trends, public policies, meetings and resources.

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Newsletters - (Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) U.S.)  - Home page for the collection of newsletters published on the web by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

• World Health News - (Harvard School of Public Health)  - Online news digest from the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. The site covers critical public health issues from around the world.

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Reports and Other Publications

• AHRQ Publications and Products - AHRQ produces a range of publications and electronic information products that are available to users through different channels and a variety of formats.

• EPC Evidence Reports - Reports from Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) that review all relevant literature on clinical, social science/behavioral, economic, and other health care organization and delivery issues.

• National Healthcare Disparities Report - Tracks disparities in both quality of and access to health care in the United States for both the general population and for AHRQ's congressionally designated priority populations.

• National Healthcare Quality Report - A comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care —effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

• APHA Reports, Issue Briefs & Fact Sheets - APHA's Center for Public Health Policy develops and disseminates evidence-based policy materials in support of the Association's three priority issues: rebuilding the public health infrastructure, improving access to care, and eliminating health disparities.

• Closing the Gap Solutions to Race-Based Health Disparities - This report documents the persistent problems experienced by communities of color attempting to access health care services across the nation.

• ASPH Publications & Research

• ASTHO Publications

• Strategies for Enumerating the Public Health Workforce

• Cultural Competency for California Public Health Staff: Train-the-Trainer State Partnership Project - This report outlines a cultural competency curriculum specifically for public health staff.

• health-evidence.ca - Searchable online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions.

• Health Policy Guide - Developed by the Center for Health Improvement, this website provides evidence-based, peer-reviewed policy guidance and resources to support advocacy and decision-making at the state and local levels.

• Advancing the Nation's Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006 - 2015 - A resource for research areas that should be addressed during the next decade by CDC and its partners in response to current and future needs and events.

• Bibliography of Behavioral Science Research in Unintentional Injury Prevention - A bibliography documenting the contributions of behavioral and social sciences to unintentional injury prevention and control from 1980-2003.

• CDC Publications, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requester Service Center - CDC publications, resources, and information about requesting CDC records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requester Service Center.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Publications and Products - Journals and CDC publications by topic.

• Data, Data, Everywhere - Report on improving access to population health and health services research data in Canada.

• Delta Omega Classics - Delta Omega is the honorary society for graduate studies in public health. The Classics are important texts identified by the national council. They are generally out of print or not widely available in libraries. These documents can be retrieved off this website and viewed through Acrobat Reader.

• Directory of Health and Human Services Data Resources

• HHS Publications and Reports - Reports from the Secretary of HHS, fact sheets, administrative reports, and health publications from HHS agencies.

• America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being - A biennial report to the Nation on the condition of children in America. Nine contextual measures describe the changing population, family, and environmental context in which children are living, and 25 indicators depict the well-being of children in the areas of economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.

• FDA Manuals, Regulatory Publications, and Reports - List of FDA publications and a link to FDA's consumer publications.

• Science@FDA - Provides links to FDA's science resources and research activities.

• Maternal and Child Health Library - Provides the Materal and Child Health community with accurate and timely information on a broad range of topics.

• HRSA Publications

• Maternal and Child Health Publications - HRSA's Maternal and Child Health programs promote and improve the health of mothers, infants, children, and adolescents, including low-income families, those with diverse racial and ethnic heritages, and those living in rural or isolated areas without access to care. Publications include materials on health care, prenatal care and newborn screening, and preventive care and research.

• Profile and Training Needs Assessment of Community/Public Health Professionals in Washington State - (Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, University of Washington, funded by HRSA)

• Public Health Work Force - Enumeration 2000 - 1.64MB (Center for Health Policy, Columbia University School of Nursing, HRSA)

• Public Health Workforce Study - Study of the public health workforce conducted by the New York Center for Health Workforce Studies at the SUNY School of Public Health and commissioned by the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis of the Bureau of Health Professions in the Health Research and Services Administration.

• Rural Health Policy Publications

• Women's Health USA - Women's Health USA, an annual databook, provides a statistical look at the health of America's women that highlights the impact on women of chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, asthma and obesity. It contains information on population characteristics, health status, health services utilization, and disparities.

• The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century

• Institute of Medicine Reports - Reports released from the Institute of Medicine since 1998.

• Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century

• Big Cities Health Inventory 2007: The Health of Urban USA - Provides city-to-city comparisons of leading measures of health, presenting a broad overview of the health of the 54 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S.

• NACCHO Publications

• Cancer Trends Progress Report - Summarizes progress in the U.S. against cancer in relation to Healthy People 2010 targets set forth by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report includes key measures of progress along the cancer control continuum and uses national trend data to illustrate where advancements have been made.

• SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2002 - The SEER Cancer Statistics Review (CSR), a report of the most recent cancer incidence, mortality, survival, prevalence, and lifetime risk statistics, is published by the Cancer Statistics Branch of the National Cancer Institute.

• US Predicted Cancer Incidence, 1999: Complete Maps by County and State from Spatial Projection Models - The results presented in this report are computed by a spatial projection model that predicts the number of cases in each county based on the sociodemographic and lifestyle profile for that county.

• Assessing the Potential of National Strategies for Electronic Health Records for Population Health Monitoring and Research - The authors review strategies for electronic health records in Australia, Canada, England and New Zealand, and outlines key issues that must be addressed to maximize the contribution of national strategies for Electronic Health Records to population health monitoring and research.

• Health, United States: Most Recent Issue to 1993 - Annual reports on the health of all Americans from 1993 to the present from data gathered by State and Federal health agencies and through ongoing national surveys.

• Publications and Information Products

• NHPF Publications - Publications on national health policies that include Issue Briefs (concise, analytic reports on a wide range of health policy issues), Background Papers (comprehensive overviews of major issues that synthesize market analysis or research findings and describe the different schools of thought on a particular topic or program initiative), and Basics (short primers, designed to answer basic questions about programs and practices).

• NIH Consensus Development Program Statements - NIH Consensus and State-of-the-Science statements prepared by independent panels of health professionals and public representatives.

• Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) - Health Services/Technology Assessment Text is a searchable collection of large, full-text practice guidelines (including the Guide to Community Preventive Services), technology assessments and health information.

• NLM Gateway - Searches multiple databases for information on meeting abstracts, health services research projects, health-related organizations, journal articles and books.

• Public Health Informatics: Current Bibliographies in Medicine 1996-4

• Public Health Informatics: Current Bibliographies in Medicine 2001-2

• Information Needs and Uses of the Public Health Workforce - Washington (State), 1997-1998 - (National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Northwest Region, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

• Grey Literature Report - A quarterly report from The New York Academy of Medicine that scans and culls grey lit in public health

• Resource Guide for Public Health Preparedness - The specific aims of the Resource Guide project are to: Assess the health information needs of public health professionals with regard to disaster preparedness and bio-terrorist threats; Streamline access to relevant documents and guidelines by creating and distributing a regularly updated Internet resource guide that directly links users to accurate and reliable sources of health-related preparedness information; and Leverage existing information and outreach resources, including the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, to increase the scope and maximize the benefit of project goals.

• Healthy People 2010 - Healthy People 2010 is a set of health objectives for the Nation to achieve over the first decade of the 21st century. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.

• Prevention Communication Research Database - Searchable collection of audience research conducted or sponsored by HHS agencies. The database was developed to highlight key prevention research findings that may not be widely known or published in peer-reviewed journals.

• Office of Human Services Policy Publications - Publications and ongoing work from the Office of Human Services Policy (HSP). HSP focuses on welfare, poverty, service delivery issues, data for research, policies affecting children, youth, and families, and economic matters affecting the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

• Reports of the Surgeon General - Reports of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service focus the Nation's attention on important public health issues. Reports on tobacco use, nutrition, violence, and HIV/AIDS have heightened America's awareness of important public health issues and generated major public health initiatives.

• Partnership for Prevention Reports and Resources - Reports, resources, and tools about prevention and health promotion policies and practices.

• Population Reference Bureau Publications - Serial and reference publications that provide data and analysis on population and health. Publications include quarterly Population Bulletins, PRB Reports on America, and Policy Briefs.

• Healthy People 2010 Toolkit:  A Field Guide to Health Planning

• The Link - Bulletin of the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice

• Performance Management Reports and Resources - Provides resources to improve performance management to improve the publics health.

• Public Health Functions Project - (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Public Health Science, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

• Public Health Reports, PHF

• PHII Resources - The Public Health Informatics Institute's list of resources includes peer-reviewed research, research briefs, topic papers, policy briefs, case studies, and useful tools. Most resources are free for viewing or download.

• Improving Public Health Performance: Exploring Agency Accreditation - RWJF is helping local and state public health leaders to develop new tools to measure and improve performance. As part of this goal, the team is working with partners in public health to explore public health agency accreditation as a possible strategy to improve and enhance the capacity of state and local public health agencies. RWJF commissioned two papers on this topic.

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Publications & Research - Research, data, program evaluations, and project reports from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and their grantees.

• Uninsured Americans with Chronic Health Conditions: Key Findings from the National Health Interview Survey - A report on the uninsured with chronic health conditions.

• Developing Public Health Interventions Model Improving Access to the Public Health Gray Literature - (Elizabeth Liddy, Anne Turner and Jana Bradley) - A report of the development of a natural language tool for retrieving information from the gray literature in public health.

• Cultural Competency for California Public Health Staff: Train-the Trainer State Partnerhsip Project - Report summarizes this project initiated by the California Department of Health Service's Office of Multicultural Health (CDHS-OMH) with the goal of developing an outline for a comprehensive curriculum in cultural competency for trainers within CDHS and local health departments.

• America's Health Rankings - America's Health Rankings is a yearly assessment of the relative healthiness of the nation, based upon analysis of comprehensive determining factors such as personal behaviors, the environment in which people live and work, the decisions made by public and elected officials and the quality of medical care delivered by health professionals.

• World Health Organization (WHO) Publications - Publications and journals from the World Health Organization (WHO).

• The World Health Report - The World Health Report, first published in 1995, is WHO's leading publication. Each year the report combines an expert assessment of global health, including statistics relating to all countries, with a focus on a specific subject.

Partners Subcommittees

• Children's Environmental Health Information Resources for Public Health Professionals - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S., Partners Subcommittees) 

• Evaluating Internet Resources - (Partners AIDS-Focus Training Subcommittee) 

• Public Health Training Bibliography - (Partners Public Health Training Subcommittee) 

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Guidelines

• Guide to Clinical Preventive Services - Recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Assesses the merits of preventive measures, including screening tests, counseling, and chemoprophylaxis.

• National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) - Resources for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

• Evidence-Based Public Health - The section highlights initiatives and research focused on increasing the evidence base supporting public health interventions and contains fact sheets summarizing recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services.

• Guide to Community Preventive Services - Summarizes what is known about the effectiveness, economic efficiency, and feasibility of interventions to promote community health and prevent disease.

• Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines - This resource contains 209 guidelines for effective Web design and usability and covers a wide range of Web site design issues, including home page design, page and site navigation, graphics and images, Web content organization, and effective Web content writing. Each guideline includes a “Strength of Evidence” rating that indicates how much research there is to support that guideline. It also includes a “Relative Importance” rating that shows how important that guideline is to the overall success of a Web site.

• Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project - Provides links to evidence-based resources, journals, and databases for public health practice.

• Model Practices Database - Searchable collection of model and promising practices across public health areas.

• Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) - Health Services/Technology Assessment Text is a searchable collection of large, full-text practice guidelines (including the Guide to Community Preventive Services), technology assessments and health information.

• Performance Improvement Resource Guide for Local Public Health Systems - The guide helps local public health systems that have completed the National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP) and seek to use the results to improve their performance according to the model standards.

• Performance Improvement Resource Guide for State Public Health Systems - The guide helps state public health system that have completed the National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP) and seek to use the results to improve their system's performance.

• Effective Public Health Practice Project - The Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) is an initiative of the province of Ontario, Canada to provide high quality information in support of public health policy decision making. EPHPP conducts systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health interventions, and summarizes recent, high quality reviews produced by others.

• Health Evidence Network (HEN) - HEN is an information service developed for public health and health care decision-makers in the WHO European Region. It comprises two services: responses to questions to support the decision-making process; and easy access to sources of evidence such as databases, documents and networks of experts.

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Public Health Libraries

• List of Public Health Libraries - (Medical Library Association, Public Health/Health Administration Section)  - This website provides links to international, U.S. government, state and local public health libraries, and to libraries from schools of public health.

• Directory of National Network of Libraries of Medicine Members - (National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM))  - Searchable directory of a nationwide network of health science libraries and information centers. The directory can be searched by state, type of library, and by services offered to the public including reference services, database search training, and delivery of full text journal articles.