Health Sciences Library Guides: One Health: Human Health

Data and Statistics

CDC Data & Statistics
CDC data repository. Data is searchable by topic.
CDC NCHS: FastStats
Alphabetically organized by health topic, the U.S. CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' FastStats platform contains statistical data on topics such as deaths and mortality, infectious diseases, and a variety of conditions.
Discover Qatar Open Data
Explore the data published by government agencies and public bodies in Qatar on this portal. The portal aims at promoting transparency, citizen engagement, improved governance, inclusive economic development and innovation in Qatar.
Eurostat Health Statistics
Eurostat's free database of statistical public health data of European Union member states.
HealthData.gov
This site contains data and data sets from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and affiliated agencies on health-related concerns such as environmental health, medical devices, community health, COVID-19, infectious diseases, and substance abuse.

WHO - Global Health Observatory This link opens in a new window
The World Health Organization's data repository of health-related statistics for its 194 Member States provides access to over 1000 indicators on priority health topics, including child nutrition, immunization, non communicable diseases, health systems, environmental health, violence and injuries, and others.

Databases

CINAHL This link opens in a new window
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.
ClinicalTrials.gov This link opens in a new window
Provides patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public, easy and free access to information on clinical studies for a wide range of diseases and conditions.
Cochrane library This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers, and a federated search feature that incorporates results from external databases.
Embase (Excerpta medica) This link opens in a new window
A major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Finds journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database providing citations to biomedical literature in the following fields: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the pre-clinical sciences.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database, including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, quality web sources.
Web of science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science is an integrated platform supporting research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.

Books

Air Pollution and Health Effects by Srikanth S. Nadadur (Editor); John W. Hollingsworth (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781447166689
Publication Date: 2015
This book offers an overview of our current understanding of air pollution health risks and how this knowledge is being used in the regulatory, therapeutic intervention measures to protect the public health and reduce the disease burden caused by acute and long-term exposure to air pollutants.
Global Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice by George Luber (Editor); Jay Lemery (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781118603581
Publication Date: 2015
Global Climate Change and Human Health examines the environmental crisis from a public health and clinical health perspective, giving students and clinicians the information they need to prepare for the future of health care. Informative illustrations depict increasing aero allergens, shifting vector habitats, emergent risks, and more.
The Microbial Challenge: a Public Health Perspective by Teri Shors; Robert I. Krasner
Call Number: WA 110 K898m 2013
ISBN: 9781449673758
Publication Date: 2013
The third edition includes new and contemporary information on vaccinations, antibiotic resistant microbes, practical disinfection information, virotherapy and emerging diseases.
On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus by David Waltner-Toews
Call Number: WA 105 W237c 2020
ISBN: 9781771648110
Publication Date: 2020
Containing important information about the coronavirus, this comprehensive, easy-to-follow primer on pandemics, epidemics, and the panics they ignite around the world also shares solutions for a safer, healthier future.
Pocket Companion to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease by Richard N. Mitchell; Vinay Kumar; Abul K. Abbas; Jon C. Aster
Call Number: QZ 39 M682p 2024
ISBN: 9780323653909
Publication Date: 2023
Features cutting-edge information on important topics such as novel therapies for hepatitis C, personalized medicine, the role of microbiome and metabolome in non-communicable disease, and much more.
Pollutants, Human Health and the Environment: A Risk Based Approach by Jane A. Plant (Editor); Nick Voulvoulis (Editor); K. Vala Ragnarsdottir (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780470742617
Publication Date: 2012
Pollutants, Human Health and the Environment is a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of environmental pollutants that are of current concern to human health. For each pollutant, the authors describe the sources, pathways, environmental fate and sinks as well as known toxicological effects.
Population Biology of Vector-Borne Diseases by John M. Drake (Editor); Michael Bonsall (Editor); Michael Strand (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780198853244
Publication Date: 2021
Population Biology of Vector-Borne Diseases is the first comprehensive survey of this rapidly developing field. Although perennially important vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue have deeply informed our understanding of vector-borne diseases, recent emerging viruses such as West Nile virus, Chikungunya virus, and Zika virus have generated new scientific questions and practical problems.

Journals

International Journal of Epidemiology
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: Print began in 1972.
International Journal of Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed journal publishing on “communicable and non-communicable disease, including research into health services and medical care.”
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: Began with vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1996).
“IJID is a peer-reviewed, open access journal and publishes original clinical and laboratory-based research, together with reports of clinical trials, reviews, and some case reports dealing with the epidemiology, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and control of infectious diseases with particular emphasis placed on those diseases that are most common in under-resourced countries.”
Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
Call Number: Online
The Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed research journal that aims to "further understanding of the relationship between environmental exposure and human health, describe evaluated exposure assessment tools and methods, and demonstrate application of exposure science to enable decisions and actions that promote and protect human health."
Vaccines
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: Began with 2013, 1.
“Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal focused on laboratory and clinical vaccine research, utilization and immunization.”
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: Print began with vol. 1, no. 1 (spring 2001).
“Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases is an authoritative, peer-reviewed journal providing basic and applied research on diseases transmitted to humans by invertebrate vectors or non-human vertebrates."

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