Research Guides: Health Data & Statistics: Published Works

Published Works

Agencies that collect and analyze data may disseminate that data in a variety of ways. For instance, they might

submit reports to be published in a scholarly journal
issue their own agency report
provide tables and graphs online
allowing users to generate their own tables on their website
issue public-use data sets, making the raw data available to users

Searching the published works, via literature indexes/databases may help locate data sources.

Databases for Locating Published Articles or Reports

CINAHL
Limit CINAHL subject heading to epidemiology (e.g., Pneumonia, ventilator associated/epidemiology)

Unlike PubMed, CINAHL has a Publication type: Statistics. Perform topic search, then use Search Options to limit to Publication Type: Statistics

EMBASE: Excerpta Medica 1974 – present (updated daily) This link opens in a new window
Major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation.

Healthy People 2020 Structured Evidence Queries
One of the PubMed Special Queries, this site lets you search for published literature related to the Healthy People 2020 subject areas.
OECD iLibrary
Online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Includes 20 Book collections by theme, containing all OECD monographs and reports; 24 periodicals; a reference title; and the OECD statistical databases.

Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
Statistical Insight provides indexing and abstracts for federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Approximately 20% of the federal statistical publications are available in full text. This resource includes all content from the American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS), including Statistical Datasets. Dates of coverage: 1973 to present.

PubMed
For diseases: limit MeSH heading to the subheading: /epidemiology (e.g., Obesity/epidemiology)

For articles with mortality data, limit to the subheading:
/mortality (e.g., Myocardial Infarction/mortality)

For non-disease terms, limit to the subheading:
/statistics & numerical data (e.g., Medical Errors/statistics & numerical data)
PubMed Special Queries
An interface providing searches - Structured Evidence Queries (SEQs) - to retrieve citations to published literature (includes: Healthy People 2020 topic areas and objectives, linked below).

Passport This link opens in a new window
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Euromonitor GMID (Global Market information Database) provides international market intelligence, including economic statistics, on industries, countries, and consumers. Details are available on 80 countries. Try this: Search--Countries and Consumers--Health
Requires Net ID and password.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window
ICPSR is a social science repository that includes curated data sets pertaining to many disciplines within the social sciences. ICPSR contains original codebooks and descriptions of methodology, offers multiple file format downloads, and links data to relevant scholarly research. Users can search at the variable level and trace datasets to their use in academic publications. The archive also includes data-driven learning guides for those teaching with data.
Users need to login to access. Use the single sign-in with Google and when prompted, use NetID credentials.
Statista This link opens in a new window
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Statista aggregates data on markets, industry, politics, economics, and population. Users can export datasets in a variety of formats. Sources include trade publications, market and opinion research institutions, government sources, business and economic databases, reference publications, media sources, and scholarly articles. Include Statista's "Global Consumer Survey", which helps marketers understand consumer behavior and brand interaction.