COD Library: Making a World of Difference: Stories about Global Health: Websites

General Medical Information Websites

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CDC.gov provides users with credible, reliable health information on topics such as: data and statistics; diseases and conditions; emergencies and disasters; environmental health; healthy living; injury, violence and safety; life stages and populations; travelers' health; workplace safety and health; and much more. This site contains information appropriate for adults, teens and kids

KidsHealth
Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, this site offers families accurate, up-to-date, easy-to-understand health information. It has separate content areas for kids, teens, parents, and educators written in an age-specific style

MedlinePlus Consumer Health

MedlinePlus is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consumer health web portal. It contains reputable information on health topics, medical tests, drugs and supplements, genetics, the latest medical news, and more in a variety of reading levels and languages, including Spanish. Its medical encyclopedia contains images and videos. It can be linked to EHRs (Electronic Health Records) and should be the first stop when seeking health information on the internet.

MedScape Reference
An online clinical reference providing in-depth drug & disease information and tools to support clinical decision making. Content is designed for practicing medical professionals and includes diagnostic medical images. Free Registration to MedScape is required. To quickly locate information on a disease or condition, try Googling the word emedicine and your disease/condition (i.e. emedicine pertussis). Once you access the article, login for full content.

PubMed - National Library of Medicine

The PubMed database, freely available via the Internet, provides citations and abstracts to articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the pre-clinical sciences; it also indexes articles from the Index to Dental Literature and the International Nursing Index. PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher websites.

PubMed Online Training (quick tutorials, videos, handouts)

Community Resources

211 DuPage
Formerly known as C.R.I.S., a fast and easy way to obtain basic information on social service programs throughout DuPage County [ Mozilla Firefox browser is recommended, Internet Explorer sometimes does not display correctly]
DuPage County Health Department
Promotes physical and emotional health; prevents illness and disability; protects health from environmental risk factors; and strives to assure the provision of accessible, quality services. Web site topics include: asthma, depression, bioterrorism, consumer services, dental services, DuPage safe food site, environmental health services, mental health services and men's and women's health sites

Community Assessment Resources

CDC: National Center for Health Statistics: Stats of the States
Find key health statistics for each U.S. state and District of Columbia

CDC: National Center for Health Statistics: Illinois

City Health Dashboard
Provides communities and city leaders with an array of regularly updated data specific to neighborhood and/or city boundaries – such as life expectancy, obesity, and children in poverty -- to improve the health and well-being of everyone in the community. Search by city or state (for example, Wheaton and Naperville are some of the cities represented from Illinois)

County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
The CHR&R program provides data, evidence, guidance, and examples to build awareness of the multiple factors that influence health and support community leaders working to improve health and increase health equity. The Rankings measure the health of nearly every county in all 50 states, and are complemented by guidance, tools, and resources. CHR&R translates and communicates complex data and evidence-based policy into accessible models, reports, and products that deepen the understanding of what makes communities healthy and inspires and supports improvement efforts. Search by State, County, or ZIP Code (e.g. DuPage, Illinois)

FastStats

FastStats is a site that provides quick and easy access to public health statistics. The freely available website is maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. Users can browse alphabetically by topic and state/territory or search across the National Center for Health Statistics site. A description of the browsing capabilities and sample searches are presented.

Impact DuPage
The Impact DuPage website is intended to help community members and policymakers learn about the health of the community. The website is funded by the DuPage County Health Department. It provides local health data, resources, best practices, news articles and information about community events. In keeping with the Impact DuPage mission and values, the site provides balanced information on a broad range of topics affecting the health and well-being of our community and highlights local assets.

Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF): State Health Facts
Provides free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the United States. In some cases, data are available for counties, territories, and other geographies. State Health Facts is comprised of more than 800 health indicators and provides users with the ability to map, rank, trend, and download data.

Global Health

Childinfo – UNICEF
Statistical information from core UNICEF studies, as well as the data (& datasets) from its supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS); a major source of global development data. Search data by health topic or country.
Global Health Observatory (WHO)
WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database. The GHO presents data from all WHO programmes and provides links to supporting information
Global Health Research Topics
The Fogarty International Center and its NIH partners invest in research on a variety of topics vital to global health. For each of these global health research topics, find an in-depth collection of news, resources and funding from Fogarty, the NIH, other U.S. government agencies, nongovernmental organizations and others. Topics include: Eye disease, vision health and blindness
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.
Hesperian Health Guides
Easy to use, illustrated, medically accurate materials in many languages covering women’s health, children, disabilities, dentistry, health education, HIV, and environmental health.
Pan American Journal of Public Health—Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
A free, open access, peer-reviewed journal, published as the flagship scientific and technical periodical publication by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Its mission is to serve as an important vehicle for disseminating scientific public health information of international significance, mainly in areas related to PAHO's essential mission to strengthen national and local health systems and improve the health of the peoples of the Americas. The journal aims to bridge the gap between policy-makers, researchers, health professionals, and practitioners.
WHO International—World Health Organization
The directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
World Fact Book --CIA
Provides overviews of countries that include health data in the "people and society" section

Cultural Competence

Community Tool Box: Building Culturally Competent Organizations
Excellent definitions, examples and education regarding cultural competence
EthnoMed: Cross Cultural Medicine
Cultural context is critical for patient care. The cultural details relevant for diagnosis and treatment include dietary practices, religious life, healing practices, traditional beliefs, cultural norms, and social routines.
Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence: Self Assessments
A variety of cultural competence self-assessments that can provide a vehicle to measure outcomes for personnel, organizations, population groups and the community at large.
Global Ambassadors for Patient Safety Workshop
Created and hosted by the University of Minnesota Health Careers Center, designed for all students who are going abroad to volunteer in a healthcare setting.
HHS.gov: Think Cultural Health
Explore free, continuing education e-learning programs, each designed to help you provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS).
Project Implicit
The mission of Project Implicit is to educate the public about bias. Project Implicit scientists produce high-impact research that forms the basis of our scientific knowledge about bias and disparities. Take a test and learn more about yourself and your perceptions.

Multilingual Health Information

EthnoMed
The objective of the website is to make information about culture, language, health, illness and community resources directly accessible to health care providers who see patients from different ethnic groups.
Health Information Translations
This project provides plain language health education resources for health care professionals and others working in communities with limited English proficient populations.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Its mission is to present high-quality, relevant health and wellness information that is trusted, easy to understand, and free of advertising, in both English and Spanish.
MedlinePlus: Health Information in Multiple Languages
Browse health information in multiple languages, arranged by language.
SPIRAL (Select Patient Information in Asian Languages)
SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages began as a joint initiative of the South Cove Community Health Center and Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library. SPIRAL aims to increase access to Asian-language health information for consumers and health care providers. The SPIRAL web site is a collection of links to Asian-language patient care documents that have been created by authoritative sources and are freely available on the World Wide Web. Links are organized by topic and language.

Interesting Global Health Articles from the Internet

Articles

Emanuel EJ, Gudbranson E, Van Parys J, Gørtz M, Helgeland J, Skinner J. Comparing Health Outcomes of Privileged US Citizens With Those of Average Residents of Other Developed Countries. JAMA Intern Med. 2021;181(3):339–344. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7484 [full text: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33369633/ ]

Eric C. Schneider et al., Mirror, Mirror 2021 — Reflecting Poorly: Health Care in the U.S. Compared to Other High-Income Countries (Commonwealth Fund, Aug. 2021). https://doi.org/10.26099/01dv-h208

WHO launches first ever global report on infection prevention and control

https://www.who.int/news/item/06-05-2022-who-launches-first-ever-global-report-on-infection-prevention-and-control

May 6, 2022, Reveals that good IPC programs can reduce health care infections by 70%

Link to entire report: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240051164

Learn more about the Dominican Republic

CIA's World Fact Book: Dominican Republic
Health-related information is found in the "people and society" section of this report