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As of August 26, 2008

Global Health
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.
Global Health indexes over 5,000 journals, books, reports, conference proceedings, patents, theses, and electronic only publications. Topics include environmental and occupational health, food safety and hygiene, infectious diseases, medical microbiology,nutrition, public health, toxicology, zoonoses, and more.

ebrary
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.
A database of nearly 40,000 complete e-books covering most subject areas including: business and economics, environmental sciences, law, public health, medicine, microbiology, sociology, engineering, and more.
Note: Requires download of ebrary Reader.

Keeping Up-To-Date in Public Health
This guide helps you with some easy ways to keep current with the literature and with science news.

Citing Medicine : The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
Citing Medicine provides assistance to authors in compiling lists of references for their publications, to editors in revising such lists, to publishers in setting reference standards for their authors and editors, and to librarians and others in formatting bibliographic citations. This online book provides sample citations and citation rules for journal articles, forthcoming "in press" journal articles and books, among other formats. It includes examples and rules for citing newer technologies such as website home pages, journals and books on the Internet, wikis and blogs.

Join Together : Advancing Effective Alcohol and Drug Policy, Prevention, and Treatment
From here, link to the WHO Global status reports on alcohol and health. You will find country profiles and global status reports on alcohol and alcohol policy. You can also click on the Key Issues tab near the top to see brief overviews of topics such as prevention education, alcohol marketing and screening/brief intervention. These key issues pages include links to more information as well as some reports.

GreenFILE
The GreenFile database by EBSCO offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records. It covers content going back more than 35 years. Journal articles unique to GreenFILE include Bioscience, Journal of Environmental Planning & Management, Journal of Ecology and Conservation Biology.

As of May 6, 2008

UC Berkeley Library's Congressional Research Tutorials
These tutorials show how to find Congressional materials in the UC Berkeley Library and on the Internet.
from our Legislative and Regulatory Resources web page

Minority Data Resource Center (ICPSR)
Contains lots of free public health datasets for downloading on issues that affect race and ethnic minority populations. The data available spans a variety of topics including housing, health, education, crime, income and wealth, youth behavior, and politics. In addition to the option to search by subject, you can search by state or city to see data available for that location.
from our Statistical/Data Resources web page

2008 Overarching Themes of the Priorities for Research in Women's Health (National Library of Medicine)
Has links to PubMed searches and clinical trials on many women's health issues such as girls and obesity, lesbians and domestic violence, contraception, pregnancy and HIV/AIDS, and many more such as health disparities for women.
from our Women's Health Resources web page

National Women's Health Resource Center
This list covers more than 100 conditions, diseases and women's health issues with a nicely detailed but readable overview of the topic followed by a link to resources, many of which are available online.
from our Women's Health Resources web page

California Office of the Patient Advocate
Research and reports here include the HMO Report Card, with information on California's HMO enrollees, language barriers and HMO ratings on asthma, cancer and diabetes among much more.
from our Health Care Planning, Organization, and Evaluation Resources web page

As of March 3, 2008

Community Health Resources (CDC)
This searchable database was created to assist community health partners, coalitions and activists as they navigate CDC’s web-based resources for planning, implementing and evaluating community health interventions to address chronic disease and health disparities issues. Use the CDC's links here to help you plan, implement and evaluate community health interventions and programs to address chronic disease and health disparities issues. You'll find links to hundreds of useful planning guides, evaluation frameworks, communication materials, behavioral and risk factor data, fact sheets, scientific articles, key reports and state and local program contacts.
from our Consumer Health Resources web page

Drug Information Portal (National Library of Medicine)
Searches many resources such as Summary of Drug Information Sources, the Summary of Reviewed Biological and Physiological Data, PubMed, Toxline and ClinicalTrials.gov. Site was last updated Feb 2008.
from our Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Resources web page

Economics of Tobacco Control
Background papers presented in an online publication called Tobacco Control in Developing Countries. Includes links to power point slides, country data and profiles, and a peer-reviewed Economics Of Tobacco Control toolkit which provides clear step-by-step guidance on what analysis to do, how to do it, and how to report and present the results.
from our Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Resources web page

Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention
The Higher Education Center has more than 100 annotated online publications available, including fact sheets, articles, newsletters, and guides and has a listing of recently published research. This website also provides links to lots of information and resources on a wide variety of evaluation topics.
from our Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Resources web page

National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. The information for each intervention includes studies used and contact information.
from our Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Resources web page

ToxTown (National Library of Medicine)
Everyday toxic chemicals and hazardous substances found in homes, towns, cities, farms, and border areas. This database contains links to authoritative information on chemicals as well as non-technical descriptions. It is put out by the National Library of Medicine.
from our Toxicology Resources web page

US-Mexico Border Environmental Health Initiative
The major issues surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border involve economics and population growth that present challenges to environmental management and natural resource planning. This project's goal is to monitor trends and analyze the stresses to the environment, binational datasets and displaying the results in both data tables and in maps. You can find data tables of disease statistics by county as well as customizable maps detailing climate, infectious disease, boundaries, contaminants, etc.
from our Public Health GIS Resources web page

As of January 16, 2008

Dietary Supplements Labels Database from the National Library of Medicine
This database lists ingredients in specific brands of dietary supplements, their uses and links to fact sheets (from National Institute of Health's Office of Dietary Supplements) on ingredients in the product. Warnings and recalls from the FDA are listed as well as clinical trials in progress, planned or completed on specific ingredients.
from our Consumer Health Resources web page

AHRQ Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Contains ongoing surveys of US households, individuals, medical care providers and employers on their health care costs. Includes data on demographics, health status, health conditions, use of medical services, etc. Users can query the database and get a detailed ASCII file (with related SAS and SPSS programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset. Pdf and html summary files are also available for various data items. Data are available from 1995+ with projections into future years.
from our Health Care Planning, Organization, and Evaluation Resources web page

Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health
Clearinghouse for evidence-based practice of medicine literature - includes links to evidence-based guidelines, systematic reviews and best practices. From the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
from our Health Care Planning, Organization, and Evaluation Resources web page

Healthy Schools
Guide to federal and state laws and policies on health education and health-related issues and staffing in K-12 schools from the National Association of State Boards of Education.
from our Health Care Planning, Organization, and Evaluation Resources web page

Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Oral History Project
Contains transcripts from the 1st year of a 5-year project of research based interviews of Kaiser Permanente's "medicine and medical research, medical care delivery, and the politics, business, and economy of medicine in the United States since 1970". Interviews of Kaiser Permanente's founding generation are available also from the Bancroft Library.
from our Health Care Planning, Organization, and Evaluation Resources web page

National Association of County & City Health Officials
Contains model practices in public health as practiced by city and county health officials nationally. Searchable database of successful programs in various areas of public health such as chronic disease, animal control, cultural competence, emergency preparedness, envirommental health, informatics, organizational practices, water quality and more.
from our Health Care Planning, Organization, and Evaluation Resources web page

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