Population Health Sciences
Defining Population Health
"Population health is the study of relationships between many
health determinants and/or health outcomes in large populations. It
sits at the intersection of medicine and public health, spanning
basic and social sciences, enabling integrated research that
encompasses virtually every domain of life and society."
— PHS website
- Population Health Science, Katherine M. Keyes and Sandro Galea (ebook)
- Keyes, K.M. and Galea, S. (2016) Setting the Agenda for a New Discipline: Population Health Science. American Journal of Public Health, 106(4), 633-4.
Across the Lifespan
Databases
- Pediatric Care Online
- LactMed (Drugs and Lactation Database)
- PeriStats
- Science of Aging Knowledge Environment Archive Site [MBB1]
- Human Aging Genomic Resources
- National Organization for Rare Disorders Database
- Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center
- LGBT Life
Journals
- Pediatrics
- JAMA Pediatrics
- Journal of Pediatrics
- Aging
- Geriatric Nursing
- European Geriatric Medicine
- Intractable & Rare Diseases Research
- Rare diseases
- Rare diseases of the Immune System
- LGBT Health
eBooks
Health Determinants
Databases
Journals
Methods, Technology, and Systems
Databases
Journals
Journals
- AIDS Education and Prevention
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- American Journal of Public Health
- Annual Review of Public Health
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
- Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
- Diabetes
- Epidemiologic Reviews
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- European Journal of Epidemiology
- Epidemiology
- Health Reports
- International Journal of Epidemiology
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Lancet Global Health
- Social Science & Medicine
- WHO Technical Report Series
Data Journals
These are a set of journals that publish data papers, which draw attention to and describe the context, content, and quality of research datasets.
Datasets
Comprehensive
- Data Citation Index
- Data Planet
- ICPSR
- ICPSR Health Data Sets Guide from UCLA Library
- Policy Map
- SimplyMap
- Statista
- Social Science Data and Software Data Resources
- Social Science Electronic Data Library
- Stanford GIS Data Portal
Global
- Global Health Data Exchange
- Global Health Observatory Data
- Humanitarian Data Exchange
- International Data Base (Census.org)
- International Migration
- IPUMS International: Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
- North Atlantic Population Project
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- POPLINE
- UN Data
- UNCTAD Stat (UN Conference on Trade & Development)
- UNHCR Population Statistics Data
- World Bank Open Data
National
- Current Population Survey
- Data.gov
- Healthdata.gov
- IPUMS USA: Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
- National Center for Health Statistics
- RAND State Statistics
- UsaFacts
- 500 Cities Project
Local
Data Visualization Resources
- Bibliopedia
- Computational Services and Bioinformatics Facility
- JMP Statistical Discovery Software (Lane Library use only)
- Learning and Using R at Stanford
- OpenRefine
- Palladio
- Tableau (Stanford Community Page)
Books
Books
- Global Population Health and Well-Being in the 21st Century
- Macrosocial determinants of population health
- Population Health Management in Health Care Organizations
- Population health science
- Population Health Science (ebook)
- Population Health Titles from National Academies Press
- Systems science and population health (e book) by Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed and Sandro Galea
Professional Organizations
Additional Library Guides
Other University Population Health Centers
- Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Population Health Information Technology
- Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Center for Population Health Sciences
- NYU Department of Population Health
- Thomas Jefferson University College of Population Health
- University of California, Berkeley Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability
- University of California, Los Angeles Center for Population Health and Health Disparities
- University of Minnesota Population Center
- University of Washington Population Health Initiative
Your Librarian
Provides fulltext access to Lane's resources.
Includes the MEDLINE database, which contains coverage of over 5000 journals and more than 25 million citations for biomedical articles, including, but not limited to, clinical trials, systematic reviews, case reports, and clinical practice guidelines.
Lane RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication)A medical search engine provides access to 9,000 medical and procedural videos, 1,000 books and over.All online issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association.Nature, the international weekly journal of science.New England Journal of Medicine.Searchable databasesLane Library's DocXpress service obtains article and book chapter PDFs as well as print book loans from other libraries at no cost to School of Medicine affiliated users as well as scans PDFs of articles or book chapters from Lane's print collection for a small fee.VisualDx is a decision support system that allows clinicians to build a patient-specific differential, search by diagnosis, or review medication-related events.
Health education and information about illnesses, diseases and conditions provided by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Critical appraisals of new drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases.Micromedex CareNotes for SHC delivers patient education materials across the continuum of care — including pre-care, inpatient, discharge, emergency department, ambulatory, and wellness education. CareNotes are available in both English and Spanish.The key resource for information on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies. Excellent source for checking interactions.Limit your PubMed search to Cochrane Reviews, AHRQ Evidence Reports, BMJ Clinical Evidence topics, FPIN Clinical Inquiries,and ACP Journal Club article reviews. A specialized PubMed search geared towards helping clinicians quickly access systematic reviews.A specialized PubMed search geared towards helping clinicians quickly access clinical trials.Using the links on this site will get you directly to the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Stanford is a member of both. If you create an individual account with your Stanford affiliation, you will be able to download available datasets on these sites.Population health science requires scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds to combine their knowledge and expertise to answer questions that individual disciplines alone cannot. The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) was founded to bring them all together.Public health protects and improves the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations, locally and globally.The mission of the Population Health Alliance is to advance the principles of population health improvement, so they become pillars of our healthcare system.