Library Services: HIS 530: History of Public Health and Medicine in the United States : General Course Resources

Welcome

Welcome to the HIS 530: History of Public Health and Medicine Course Guide.

This guide is designed to help you successfully complete your research assignments by leading you to relevant library resources and websites in the interdisciplinary field of public health and medicine

Check out the sources and other useful information that will help you to successfully complete the global health course assignment and your literature review.

Encyclopedia of Global Health by Zhang, Yawei, Ed.
Call Number: E-Book
Publication Date: 2008
Global Health by Merson
Call Number: WA 530.1 G455 2012
Publication Date: 2011
International Encyclopedia of Public Health by Stella R. Quah, ed.
Call Number: E-Book
Publication Date: 2017
Introduction to Global Health by Kathryn H. Jacobsen
Publication Date: 2014

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Mission is to ensure that technology based health solutions are created and delivered to those who need them most.
CDC Global Health
CDC's Center for Global Health coordinates and manages the agency's resources and expertise to address global challenges such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, emergency and refugee health, non-communicable diseases, injuries, and more.
Fogarty International Center (National Institutes of Health)
The Center is dedicated to advancing the mission of the National Institutes of Health by supporting and facilitating global health research
Kaiser Global Health
The Kaiser Family Foundation's global health gateway brings together original policy analysis and research from the Foundation, provides the new daily news synthesis, tracks legislation through a new Policy Tracker, and features fact sheets, country-level data through Kaiser's Global Health Facts, and more.
Global Health Council
highlights global health issues and concerns, brings together multiple perspectives, promotes evidence-based policy, disseminates research, and coordinates communications.
International Development Research Centre
The IDRC Digital Library provides the international research community with access to a current and comprehensive collection of research results and documents about a wide range of subjects related to international development.
UNICEF
Resource that focuses on social and economic issues, including health issues, that affect children across the world.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
World Health Organization
The website includes information on global health topics, profiles of member countries, global health data and statistics, and WHO publications, programs, and projects.

New or Noteworthy

Check out the National Library of Medicine's new online exhibition, Making a World of Difference: Stories about Global Health. The exhibition "showcases efforts that have increased access to primary health care, reduced discrimination, addressed health information needs, fostered medical discoveries through research, helped end conflict, and provided vital care during natural disasters"

Making a World of Difference: Stories About Global Health

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