Health in Contemporary Society
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HED 311
Health in Contemporary Society |
Background Narratives (with
country statistics)
| WWW (free) | World Factbook CIA |
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html |
| WWW (free) | Background Notes U.S. Department of State |
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/bgn/ |
| WWW(free) | Country Study
U.S. Government |
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Note: These are quite comprehensive--however they are not issued for all countries |
| Book | Cambridge World History of Human Disease | REF.R131.C233 1993 |
| Book | Europa World Yearbook | REF. DESK JN1.E85 v.1-2 |
| Book | Europe in the 1990's: A Geographic Analysis | REF. D900.E97 1990 |
| Book | The Statesman's Year Book | REF. DESK JA51.S71 2003 |
Atlases
| WWW (free) | Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection | www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html |
| Book | Atlas of the Third World | REF. G1046.G1 K8 1992 |
| Book | State of Health Atlas | REf. G1046.E5 M3 1993 |
| Book | Women in the World: An International Atlas | REF. G1046.E1 S4 1986 |
Analyses with Some Statistics
| Book | Atlas of Disease Distributions | REF. G1046.E51 C5 1992 |
| Book | Hunger 1999 | REF. HD9000.1.H82 1999 |
| Book | Health in the Americas | REF. RA407.5.A45 H42 2002 |
| Book | National Health Systems of the World | REF. RA393.R593 1991 v.1& 2 |
| Book | World Development Report | REF. HC59.7.W659 2002/2003 REF. HC59.7.W659 2001/2002 REF. HC59.7.W659 2000/2001 REF. HC59.7.W659 1999/2000 |
Statistical Sources
| WWW (free) | InfoNation
United Nations Cyber Schoolbus |
http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp
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| WWW (free) | World Health Report 2002
United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) |
http://www.who.int/whr/2002/en/
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| WWW (free) | Poverty Assessment Summaries
World Bank Group |
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/dg/povertys.nsf/Poverty+assessment?openview&count=1999 |
| WWW (free) | Social Indicators
World Bank Group |
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/dg/povertys.nsf/DownloadSID?openform |
| WWW (free) | Your country's data gathering agency | www.yahoo.com Try a search in Yahoo using the words: country name and statistics |
| WWW(free) | Altavista translator | In case the agency you found above doesn't publish in
English try babelfish.altavista.com/ |
| Book | Demographic Yearbook (UN) | REF. HA17.D45 1999 REF. HA17.D45 2000 |
| Book | International Historical Statistics: 1750-1993 and 1998 | Of the Americas: REF. HA 175.M55 1998 Of Africa, Asia, Oceania REF. HA 175.M552 1998 Of Europe: REF HA1107.M55 1998
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| Book | International Marketing Data and Statistics | REF. HA42.I56 2003 |
| Book | Social Indicators of Development | REF. HC59.69.S63 |
| Book | Statistical Abstract of Latin America | REF. HA935.S8 V.33, V37, and V 38 |
| Book | Statistical Record of Children | REF. HQ767.8.S73 1994 |
| Book | Statistical Record of Women Worldwide | REF. HQ1150.S73 1991 |
| Book | Yearbook of Labor Statistics | REF. HD4826.I63 |
Human Rights
| WWW (free) | Amnesty International Country Information | http://www.amnestyusa.org/ |
| WWW (free) | Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices U.S. Department of State |
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/c1470.htm |
Narratives
| Book | Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues | REF. HQ1870.9.W6548 1998 |
| Book | The World's Women: Trends & Statistics | REF. HQ1154 W95 2000 |
| Book | Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World | REF. GN495.4.E53 1993 |
| Book | Encyclopedia of World Cultures | REF. GN307.E53 1991 with supplement 2002 |
| Book | Ethnic Groups Worldwide | REF. GN325.L46 1998 |
Find Articles via Electronic Databases
| WWW (PSU) | IAC Searchbank
Full-Text database covering many subject areas |
Click here to LINK |
| WWW(PSU) | Health Reference Center
Full-Text database covering health and medicine |
Click here to LINK |
| WWW (PSU) | World News from LEXIS-NEXIS Full-Text database of newspaper articles -- Select "News" link |
Click here to LINK |
| WWW (PSU) | Social Science Abstracts | Click here to LINK |
| WWW (PSU) | Nursing and Allied Health | Click here to LINK |
| WWW (PSU) | Public Affairs Information Service | Click here to LINK |
Search the Library Catalog for Books Using the Following Subject Headings
LINK HERE
and type OPAC for the passwordEconomic conditions--name of country
Economic policy--name of country
Medical anthropology--name of country
Medical care--name of country
Social conditions--name of country
Social policy--name of country
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