Global Health Books and Web Sites
Revised/Updated Global Health Books and Web Sites
International Hlth and Culture 111: Wodi and Paterson
- Search the Library Catalog under ‘Find Books’ using subject headings:
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Health Behavior
- Health Status Indicators
- Medical Policy –Cross-Cultural Studies
- National Health Insurance–Cross-Cultural Studies
- National Health Services–Cross-Cultural Studies
- Pan American Health Organization
- Public Health
- Social Medicine
- World Health
- World Health Organization
- Suggested books:
- Building Better Health: Handbook of Behavioral Change RA 776.9 .J46 2003
- Comparative Health Policy: RA 394 .B56 2004
- Critical Issues in Global Health (C. Everett Koop): RA 441 .C75 2001
- Health in the Americas: Ref RA 407.5 .L3 .P18 2002
- Lives At Risk: RA 412 .G66 2004
- Managing Health: RA 971 .K325 2003
- Return of the White Plague (TB): RA 644 .T7 .R486 2003
- Statistical Handbook on Infectious Diseases: Ref RA 643 .W33 2003
- Third World Health Promotion and Its Dependence on First World Wealth: Ref RA 441.5 .M33 2001
- World Epidemics: Ref RA 649 .S65 2003
- World Health Report: RA 8 .A265 2002
- World Health Report online in html or .pdf: www.who.int/whr/2004/en
- Worldwide Health Sourcebook: Ref Desk RA 441 .W68 2001
- Suggested databases to locate current magazine and journal articles:
- Expanded Academic
- Health Reference Center
- Professional Development Collection
- ScienceDirect
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- SocIndex with Fulltext
- Wilson Omnifile
- Selected World Wide Web sites:
- www.globalhealth.gov HHS gateway links to WHO and PAHO, etc.
- www.globalhealth.org Global Health Council– news, emerging threats, child hlth,
HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, some free online reports, etc. - www.paho.org/default.htm Pan American Health Organization
- www.populationaction.org Population Action International
- www.unicef.org UNICEF
- www.who.int/en/ World Health Organization
- www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu Harvard School of Public Health
(Ref = shelved in Reference Collection or at Reference Desk , second floor; RA=3rd floor stacks)
1/28/05, rev 7/29/05