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Health Sciences: HS 322

Finding Data Sources and Websites

These are the suggestions pulled together by you and your classmates during class on 9/11/25. If you have additional suggestions, just let Meggan know!

In addition to the links below, remember to look for your country's Ministry/Department of Health.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CIA World Factbook
Eurostat
Global Burden of Disease
On the IHME website. Use the "Interact with..." links to compare data.
Global Health Now
Follow the research mentioned in the articles.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
National Center for Health Statistics
On the CDC website.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Our World in Data
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Partners in Health
United Nations (UN)
United States Census Bureau
The World Bank
UNICEF
Note: focuses on children
Mayo Clinic
World Health Organization (WHO)

Finding Peer Reviewed Articles

These are the suggestions pulled together by you and your classmates during class on 9/11/25. If you have additional suggestions, just let Meggan know!

MUSCAT Plus
MUSCAT Plus searches for books, journal articles, media, and more in Musselman Library and beyond.
PubMed
Provides citations to health and biology articles from 1966-present.
Scopus
Provides abstracts and citations of research literature and quality web sources updated daily, 1900-present. Coverage is very strong for sciences, strong for social sciences, and growing for arts & humanities.
ScienceDirect
Provides full-text articles from peer-reviewed journals published by Elsevier Science, 1993-present (years vary by journal title). Topics include Physical Sciences & Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences & Humanities.

Citing Your Sources

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th Edition by American Psychological Association
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2020

ISBN: 9781433832161

Publication Date: 2020

Copies at the Research Help Desk

APA References (Excelsior Online Writing Lab)
APA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue OWL)
Quick guide to formatting both in-text and reference list citations
Zotero
This free, easy-to-use tool helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources