Library Guides: SOC 115G: Global Health and Social Justice: Articles, Reports, & Statistics

Search Strategies

Try the following searches in the databases to the right. You can cut and past the search strings below (replacing [disease] with the disease and [country] with the country/city/region you are researching) into the database search boxes.

[disease] AND [country]

[disease] AND [country] AND (incidence OR prevalence OR mortality OR morbidity OR epidemiology)

Google

Google can help you find national and local government statistics on health and disease for your country. Try these two searches:

[country/region] [disease]

[country/region] [department of health]

[country/region] [ministry of health]

Sample Country Department of Health Website

Article Databases

Academic Search Complete
A multi-disciplinary database of scholarly and general interest journals, books, and reports. [1865 - present]

Articles from broad array of peer-reviewed journals, popular and trade magazines and news sources for nearly all areas of study; available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Global Health
Indexes journals, books, reports, and more on the topics such as environmental and occupational health, food safety and hygiene, infectious diseases, medical microbiology, nutrition, public health, toxicology, and zoonoses. [1912 - present]

Limited free full text is available for some hard-to-find journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, and research articles from smaller, society and non-English publishers. Note: The header says "CABI: CAB Abstracts and Global Health"
Web of Science
Indexes leading journals in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. Allows cited reference searching. (ISI Web of Knowledge) [1900 - present]

Provides links to footnoted citations as well as sources that have subsequently cited an article. Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (from 1975), Science Citation Index (from 1900), and Social Sciences Citation Index (from 1900).
OECD iLibrary
Full-text publications and statistical data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Full-text publications and statistical data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including country studies, forecasting publications, reports, and socioeconomic datasets and an interactive Health data database. The statistics section includes data in the areas of international trade, telecommunications, foreign aid, migration, and many other categories. Includes data from 1983 to the present. (source oecd)
PubMed
Search biomedical literature citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. [1950 - present]

Access to citations from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, other journals in the field of medicine and life sciences, and links to NCBI's integrated molecular biology databases including nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system.
The link above goes to a specially configured version of Pubmed for UC Berkeley users. To use the free public version, please click here.

Country Facts & Statistics

CIA World Factbook
Facts on the history, people, government, economy, geography, and military issues for hundreds of world entities.

Provides fundamental and factual reference material on a country or issue including current economic statistics and indicators by country including population, GDP, external debt and birth and death rates. Includes maps.

World Bank -- Health Data
Includes health indicator data and country data.
WHO Country Facts
Demographic, statistical, and expenditure information for various countries.

Statistical Abstracts of the World
A collection of the statistical abstracts from many countries. (ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the World)

These statistical abstracts are generally issued by the national statistical offices of foreign governments and contain country-level data not easily found elsewhere. Global and regional statistical compendia issued by international organizations are included.

Demographic & Health Surveys
Reports include population and health outcomes information for over 90 countries.
OECD Health Data and Statistics
Statistics on health across all countries in the OECD.

Norden iLibrary
Covers Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Aland. Includes statistics in health, economics, among others.

Includes titles in the areas of agriculture, development, economics, education, employment, the environment, governance, industry, social affairs, migration and health, trade, and others in science and technology, energy, transport, finance and investment, and urban, rural and regional development.

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SOC 115G: Global Health and Social Justice: Articles, Reports, & Statistics

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Search Strategies

Google

Sample Country Department of Health Website

Article Databases

Country Facts & Statistics

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