Public Health: Home

• Medline (Ovid) One of the largest biomedical databases in the world. Managed by the National Library of Medicine.
• Embase Large database with particularly good coverage of drugs and medical devices
• CINAHL (EBSCO) Nursing and Allied Health database.
• Public Health Database
• AMED Allied and complementary medicine, and public health.
• ProQuest Health & Medicine In addition to journal articles, it finds reports, news, books, dissertations and more.
• Cochrane Library The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
• healthevidence.org Free database of quality-rated systematic reviews evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public health interventions, including cost data.

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) The AIHW holds valuable data on many health and welfare issues and topics, widely used by government, researchers, policymakers and the community.
• Department of Health and Aged Care The Commonwealth Department of Health develops and delivers policies and programs and advises the Australian Government on health, aged care and sport.

• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Health The ABS is Australia’s national statistical agency, providing official statistics on a wide range of topic areas including health.
• World Health Organisation (WHO) The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.