Health and Medical Information

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a collection of "national probability surveys conducted by AHRQ on the financing and utilization of medical care in the United States."
• Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) has both state and national databases that "can be used to identify, track, and analyze national trends in health care utilization, access, charges, quality, and outcomes."
• HCUPnet provides health statistics and information on hospital stays at the National, regional and State level.
• HIVnet provides statistics on medical resource utilization by persons with HIV infection.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes a wide variety of information, including:
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys adults in all fifty states to estimate the prevalence of behaviors that may contribute to premature morbidity and mortality. The Prevalence Data Online is available by state for the years 1984-present and includes data derived from surveys on the prevalence of acute drinking, cholesterol awareness, chronic drinking, drinking and driving, exercise, access to firearms, hypertension, immunization, nutrition, overweight status, safety belt usage, and use of tobacco products. All data are not available for all years.
• Emerging Infectious Diseases An electronic journal.
• Health Information A to Z
• Healthy People 2010 National health promotion and disease prevention initiative that measures progress of 467 public health status indicators. DATA2010 is an interactive database that tracks Health People indicators.
• HIV/AIDS Prevention provides statistics, fact sheets, publications,and information about treatment and prevention.
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report electronic version of the print journal which includes a search feature.
• National Prevention Information Network provides information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis.
• Scientific Data and Statistics
• Travelers Health includes vaccination requirements, traveler's health issues by global region.
• Wonder "CDC WONDER provides query access to about 40 text-based and numeric databases. Numeric databases can provide, for example, the numbers and rates of sexually transmitted diseases, cancer cases, or deaths in the United States." Databases include: Injury mortality, fatal accident reporting system, mortality, natality, AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, and other data. Many data series contain county level data.
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) The YRBSS monitors "priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States. These behaviors, often established during childhood and early adolescence, include tobacco use, unhealthy dietary behaviors, inadequate physical activity, alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), and behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence."
• Center for Nutrition Policy Promotion provides Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It also provides an interactive application to assess nutrition, recipe books, and information on children and nutrition.
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Formerly Health Care Finance Administration) provides information and statistics on Medicaid, Medicare, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
• Clinical Trials "The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients,family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies." Search or browse by sponsoring agency or condition. The site also includes background information on clinical trials.
• Colorado Department of Health and Environment provides a number of database on Colorado Health Statistics, such as:
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
• Colorado Health Information Dataset
• Colorado Vital Statistics: Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce
• Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
• Combined Health Information Database (CHID) This database is no longer kept up to date, but it still has links to resources by topic.
• The Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm of Congress, prepares reports (usually under 20 pages long) on topics of interest to members of Congress.
  Search these CRS Reports CU through LexisNexis. Use terms like "Medicine," "Public Health" or "Vital Statistics."
• Food and Drug Administration provides information on food safety, approved drugs, animal drugs, cosmetics, medical and radiologic devices, toxicology, children and tobacco, and other topics.
• Food and Nutrition Information Center publishes information on dietary supplements, food composition, dietary guidelines, and other information.
• Health.gov is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)portal to federal government health web sites.
• HealthFinder is a web site from the United States government to help consumers locate reliable medical information including: online publications, databases, web sites, support and self-help groups, not-for -profit organizations, and government agencies. Includes links to medical dictionaries.
• Health Care for the Homeless Information Resource Center
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) provides access to full text materials, including Clinical Practice Guidelines, a Quick Reference Guidelines, and a Consumer Guidelines. Some consumer guidelines are available in Spanish.
• Human Radiation Experiments "The Office of Human Radiation Experiments, established in March 1994, leads the Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects. We have undertaken an intensive effort to identify and catalog relevant historical documents from DOE's 3.2 million cubic feet of records scattered across the country."
• Indian Health Service offers online publications such as Trends in Indian Health, Regional Differences in Indian Health, and other titles.
• Injury and Mortality Data from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
• International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) "database is produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health, in conjunction with the Food and Nutrition Information Center of the National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture. IBIDS contains bibliographic records, including abstracts published in international scientific journals on the topic of dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbal and botanical supplements. The general public, scientists, researchers, and other interested parties will be able to search the database using keywords to obtain the citations of research journal articles."
• Medicare provides publications and online databases. The Medicare Compare database allows you to compare features of health care plans. The Nursing Home Compare contains information from the most recent nursing home inspections and surveys.
• National Center for Health Statistics - Centers for Disease Control
• Data Warehouse
• National Death Index
• National Vital Statistics System
• News Releases and Fact Sheets, 1994-present
• National Guideline Clearinghouse "NGC database contains evidence-based clinical practice guidelines as defined by the Institute of Medicine: "Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances."
• National Health Information Center website features:
• Toll Free Numbers for Health Information
• Federal Health Information Centers and Clearinghouses
• Health Information Resource Database, which "includes 1,100 organizations and government offices that provide health information upon request. Entries include contact information, short abstracts, and information about publications and services the organizations provide." One can search by filling in a form, or by clicking on a list of keywords.
• National Institutes of Health includes links to all of the research institutes, the National Library of Medicine, and a selection of Health Information.
• National Library of Medicine
• Medline Plus This service from the National Library of Medicine, provides access to Medline, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, clinical and consumer health information, directories of hospitals, physicians and health related organizations and other services. The encyclopedia, provided by the Adam Company, includes diseases, injuries, nutrition, surgery, poisons, symptoms, tests, and special topics such as weight loss.
• PubMed (Medline) "a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources." Medline is also available via the NLM Gateway and Medline Plus.
• Reports of the Surgeon General Online collection includes reports on HIV/AIDS, mental health, smoking and health, physical activity, nutrition, child sexual abuse, violence on television, and other topics. For pre-2000 reports, visit this site.
• TOXMAP provides a "geographic representation of Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data."
• TOXNET this database searches across numerous databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
• National Cancer Institute provides a wide variety of information including
• Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-1994 "maps, text, tables and figures showing the geographic patterns of cancer death rates* throughout the United States from 1950 to 1994 for about 40 cancers." The atlas includes a functions to create custom maps or to download data.
• National Cancer Institute Publications Locator view or order free publications.
• NIDA Notes covers the areas of treatment and prevention research, epidemiology, neuroscience, behavioral research, health services research, and AIDS.
• Nutrition.gov provides access to all government web sites with reliable and accurate information on food and nutrition.
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man with links to NLM's Entrez database of 1.3 million citations with abstracts from MEDLINE on genetics and related topics.
• The President's Council on Bioethics includes information about the committee and its publications.
• US Agency for International Development includes health statistics for selected countries by world region and country. Additional publications about health initiatives and programs, can be found on the " Population and Health" page.
• USDA Nutritive Value of Foods: searchable database.
• WISQARS - Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System provides statistics on injury mortality from1981-1997 and leading causes of death from 1981-1997. Both data sets can be limited by date, sex, race and Hispanic origin. You can query the injury mortality data by selecting from an extensive list of mechanisms and causes such as adverse effects from medical treatments or drugs, insect bites, and machinery. In addition, the database enables you to limit deaths from motor vehicle accidents to pedestrians, vehicle occupants or bicyclists. The data are available on the state or national level.

• Country Health Profiles from Pan American Health Organization.
• New Zealand Digital Library, a site with several important collections of digital materials from intergovernmental and international organizations.
• Food and Nutrition Library "contains 600+ publications (54,000) in the fields of food, nutrition, food processing, food policy and nutrition research."
• Medical and Health Library "contains 210 publications - 30,000 pages of ideas and solutions - in the fields of Clinical Treatment, Emergencies, Essential Drugs, Family Planning, Food and Nutrition, Health Education, HIV/AIDS, Medical Equipment, Prevention, Public Health, Research, Sanitation."
• UNAIDS The collection of the UNAIDS library.
• International Labour Organization (ILO) provides information on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the world of work. The site includes full text reports and fact sheets.
• OECD Health Data CU this resource, part of the SourceOECD CU database, offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries.
• UNAIDS A joint program of UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNDCP, UNESCO, WHO, and the World Bank. The site provides information on the global AIDS epidemic. A recent report examined the impacts of the epidemic on countries of sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, the site features Epidemiological Fact Sheets by Country. The fact sheets contain "the most recent country-specific data on HIV/AIDS prevalence and incidence, together with information on behaviors (e.g. casual sex and condom use) that can spur or stem the transmission of HIV."
• World Bank: Economics of Tobacco Control provides country-level data (when available) on smoking prevalence and mortality.
• World Health Organization
• UNAIDS/WHO Global HIV/AIDS database "contain the most recent country-specific data on HIV/AIDS prevalence and incidence, together with information on behaviors (e.g. casual sex and condom use) that can spur or stem the transmission of HIV. The data include prevention indicators originally developed by WHO's Global Program on AIDS, which aim to measure trends in knowledge of AIDS, relevant behaviors, and a host of other factors influencing the epidemic."
• International Digest of Health Legislation "contains a selection of national and international health legislation. Texts of legislation are summarized in English or mentioned by their title. Where possible, links are provided to other websites that contain full texts of the legislation in question." Access by country, subject, volume, issue, or keyword.
• World Health Report "an expert analysis of the increasingly important influence of health systems in the daily lives of people worldwide."
• World Health Topics a list information on a variety of health topics.

• American Hospital Directory provides name, address, accreditation status, summary financial data, services offered, and summary data on patient length of stay and costs by category of service, and summary data on services to ambulatory patients. Derived from data reported to the Health Care Finance Administration.
• HealthGrades.com provides ratings for health care services and providers including ratings of hospitals by procedure, health plans, physicals, home health agencies and nursing homes. In addition to ratings, the site provides basic directory information in many of the same areas. Much of the data is derived from reports to the Health Care Finance Administration.
• Health Insurance Consumer Guides describes your rights to buy and keep health insurance."
• HighWirePress hosts a repository of free full-text science articles on the web.
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Quality Check "Quality CheckTM offers useful information about Joint Commission accredited organizations. On a basic level, you can retrieve details about an organization's accreditation. For example, you can find out how it rated during its most recent evaluation or on any follow-up activity. If you want to know more, you can find how the organization performed in areas such as patient rights, infection control, and many other areas of interest to you through the organization's performance report. " includes hospitals, ambulatory care, behavioral care, health care networks, home care, laboratories, and long term care facilities.

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on health and medicine available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  health and statistics	health and statistics
  health and histor*	health and histor*
  medic* and econom*	medic* and econom*
  health and policy (government publications only)	health and policy (government publications only)

  
  The * replaces up to five characters in a word.

• Alcohol and Drug Use
• Occupational Safety and Health