Guides @ UF: BME6938: Global Health in Biomedical Engineering: Global Health Information Sources

World Health Statistics 2022: Monitoring Health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals by World Health Organization
Publication Date: 2022
Crossing the Global Quality Chasm by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publication Date: 2019
Understanding Global Health
Publication Date: 2014

Global Burden of Disease

The Global Burden of Disease 2019 (GBD) provides data to quantify health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health systems can be improved and disparities can be eliminated.

Global Burden of Disease Resource Centre (The Lancet)
Collection of GBD articles published across the Lancet family of journals. All GBD Articles published with the Lancet journals are Open Access, making them free to read and download online.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Access to data, visualizations, and publications from the GBD study.

Finding Journal Articles

General

Global Health This link opens in a new window
Resources on the study, research and practice of national, regional and international public health. Includes articles, books, conference publications, etc.

Global Index Medicus
The Global Index Medicus (GIM) provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. You can search together or by a region:
Americas
Western Pacific
South-East Asia
Eastern Mediterranean
Africa

MEDLINE (PubMed) This link opens in a new window
International biomedical database from U.S. National Library of Medicine. PubMed comprises citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and e-books, some links to full text content.
Embase This link opens in a new window
Major biomedical literature database, with a particular focus on international coverage. Additional focus also given to chemicals and drugs. Features a Medical Device search.

Regional

African Journals Online (Open Access) This link opens in a new window
The world's largest platform of African-published scholarly journals with nearly 200 titles in the area of health.

Virtual Health Library (Latin America & Caribbean)
The VHL Regional Portal is an integrated space of health information sources that promotes the democratization and expansion of access to scientific and technical information in health in Latin America and the Caribbean. Interface is available in English, Portuguese, & Spanish.

Finding Preprint Articles

Preprints can provide some of the latest information on a topic. However, they are preliminary reports of work that have not yet been peer reviewed.

arXiv
Includes open access e-prints on Physics and more specific areas such as Medical Physics and Optics
bioRxiv
Archive for preprints in the life sciences.
engrXiv
Open archive of engineering preprints. Covers most areas of engineering.
medRxiv
Collection of biomedical-related preprints.
Web of Science's Preprint Citation Index
Discover preprints for key research articles ahead of the formal publication in a journal from a range of international selected and evaluated preprint repositories in the sciences, social sciences and arts & humanities.

Finding Data Sets & Statistics

Gideon This link opens in a new window
Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network (GIDEON) is a comprehensive database of historical and current infectious disease outbreaks.
Global Health Observatory (GHO) This link opens in a new window
Compiled by the World Health Organization to provide health-related statistics from around the world. The site combines theme pages covering global health priorities and data sets on a number of indicators, countries, and health topics.

Global Health Estimates
Latest available data on causes of death and disability globally, by WHO region and country, by age, sex and by income group.
Health, Pharma, & Medtech Statistics (Statistica)
Statistics related to health and healthcare systems.

World Bank Data This link opens in a new window
Free global development data. Ability to browse by country or indicator.