Download Evidence-based Public Health Resources

Public Health Information on the Web
Evidence Based Public Health Internet Resources:
PubMed:
http://pubmed.gov
Developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), PubMed is the premier scientific database
of over 15 million bibliographic citations and abstracts dating back to the 1950’s in the fields of
medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.
Access to PubMed is free. Links to Special Queries (Health Services Research) and Clinical
Queries (Systematic Reviews) from the home page.
Active Living Research Briefs
http://www.activelivingresearch.org/toolsandresources/researchbrief
Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, these publications summarize the latest
evidence from many fields; highlight promising approaches for preventing obesity and
increasing children’s physical activity levels; and translate the evidence to actionable
recommendations.
ClinicalTrials.gov
http://clinicaltrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov is a Web-based resource that provides patients, their family members, health
care professionals, researchers, and the public with easy access to information on publicly and
privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions. The Web site is
maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Cochrane Library:
http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/clibintro.htm
The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine
databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. While you can browse and
search abstracts of reviews free of charge, viewing full-text requires a subscription.
County Health Rankings
http://www.countyhealthrankings.org
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps help communities create solutions that make it easier for
people to be healthy in their own communities, focusing on specific factors that we know affect
health, such as education and income.
Ranking the health of nearly every county in the nation, the County Health Rankings illustrate
what we know when it comes to what’s making people sick or healthy. The County Health
Roadmaps shows what communities can do to create healthier places to live, learn, work and
play.
Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project:
http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph/
This site focuses specifically on public health best evidence resources with an aim toward
examining evidence-based medicine models and assessing their effectiveness to public health.
Links are provided to the top 25 public health journals and to evidence-based resources in public
health practice.
Grey Literature Report
http://greylit.org
The Grey Literature Report is a bimonthly publication of The New York Academy of Medicine
Library alerting readers to new grey literature publications in health services research and
selected public health topics.
Guide to Community Preventive Services:
http://thecommunityguide.org
Developed by an independent task force with support from the CDC and Department of Health
and Human Services, the Community Guide provides summaries on the effectiveness of
population-based interventions for prevention and control.
Healthy People 2020 Structured Evidence Queries:
http://phpartners.org/hp2020/index.html
Provides links to preformulated MEDLINE search strategies to help you find articles related
to specific Healthy People 2020 objectives. Current focus areas include: Access to Quality
Health Services; Diabetes, Disability and Secondary Conditions; Environmental Health; Food
Safety; Health Communication; Hearing Objectives; Nutrition; Oral Health; Physical Fitness;
Respiratory Diseases; Vision.
Morbitity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR):
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html
Prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), contains data on specific
diseases as reported by state and territorial health departments and as well as reports and
surveillance summaries on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or
human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and
unintentional injuries.
National Guidelines Clearinghouse:
http://www.guideline.gov/
Sponsored by the AHRQ, this Web site provides evidence-based clinical practice guidelines with
recommendations, strategies and other information that assists healthcare providers in making
appropriate healthcare decisions.
NIH RePORTER
http://projectreporter.nih.gov
The Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT) Website provides a central point of
access to reports, data, and analyses of NIH research. The Report Expenditures and Results tool
allows users to search a repository of NIH-funded research projects and access publications and
patents resulting from NIH funding.
Rural Assistance Center
http://www.raconline.org
A product of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Rural Initiative, the Rural
Assistance Center (RAC) was established as a rural health and human services "information
portal." RAC helps rural communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of
available programs, funding, and research that can enable them to provide quality health and
human services to rural residents. Note the link to the “Online Library” at the top of the home
page.
TOXNET:
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
Developed by NLM, TOXNET is an integrated system of toxicology, hazardous chemicals and
environmental health databases that are available free of charge on the web.
TRIP Database
http://tripdatabase.com
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use highquality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
As well as research evidence they also allow clinicians to search across other content types
including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.
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