Library Guides: SOC C115/PH C155: Sociology of Health & Medicine: 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 [country] with the country you are researching) into the database search boxes.

(healthcare OR health care) AND [country]

(healthcare OR health care) AND system AND [country]

"health services" AND [country]

Add other terms to focus results, such as

affordability
insurance
benefits
etc.

World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) has all sorts of health data mostly for developing countries. Listed below are links to various types of health information from WHO.

WHO Country Facts
Demographic, statistical, and expenditure information for various countries.
WHO Publications on Health Systems
Reports of health systems governance from several countries.
WHO Health Systems
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the region where your country is located.
WHO Publications
On the right side bar, click on the region where your country is located.

Article Databases

Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary database of both scholarly and newspaper articles.

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
Includes journals, books, reports, and conference proceedings on global health topics.

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
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly journal articles. You can do a cited reference search here.

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).
PubMed
Try this search strategy: "Delivery of Health Care/organization and administration"[Mesh:noexp] AND country [Mesh] (use the name of your country)

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.
OECD iLibrary
Publications and statistical data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including country studies, reports, and socioeconomic datasets and an interactive Health data database.

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)

Health Systems Evidence
A repository of summaries of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems. The types of syntheses include evidence briefs for policy, overviews of systematic reviews, systematic reviews, systematic reviews in progress (i.e. protocols for systematic reviews), and systematic reviews being planned (i.e. registered titles for systematic reviews).

Google

Try a Google search to find your country's department of health. Some foreign countries will have sites in English, so it's worth a try.

Country Facts & Statistics

CIA World Factbook
Includes number of physicians per 1000 people in the population (physician density) and health expenditures as a percentage of GDP.

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.
Business Source Complete
On the right side bar, click on "Country Reports". Includes health expenditures and general information about the health care system.

Indexing, abstracts, and (in many cases) the full text of articles for the most important scholarly business journals as well as popular and trade magazines and newsletters.

Demographic & Health Surveys
Reports include population, health outcomes, and health care insurance coverage information for over 90 countries.
OECD Health Data and Statistics
Statistics on health across all countries in the OECD.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Has recent reports on health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia.
World Bank -- Health Data
Includes health indicator data and country data.

Statistical Abstracts of the World
Includes all kinds of health statistics for many countries.

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.
Norden iLibrary
Covers Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Aland and includes reports and statistics on development, health, economics, education, environment, and more.

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 C115/PH C155: Sociology of Health & Medicine: Articles, Reports, & Statistics

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Search Strategies

World Health Organization

Article Databases

Google

Country Facts & Statistics

2008: Strategic Implications of Global Health Map from the National Intelligence Council