HED 311

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	Environmental Almanac	REF. TD176.4.I54 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

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	National Health Systems of the World	REF. RA393.R593 1991 v.1
Book	World Development Report	REF. HC59.7.W659 1999/2000

Statistical Sources

WWW (free)	World Health Report 2002 United Nations World Health Organization (WHO)	http://www.who.int/whr/2002/en/
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
Book	International Historical Statistics of the Americas 1750-1988	REF. HA 175.M55 1993
Book	International Marketing Data and Statistics	REF. HA42.I56 1999
Book	Social Indicators of Development	REF. HC59.69.S63
Book	Statistical Abstract of Latin America	REF. HA935.S8
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/scripts/exit.cgi?www.amnesty.org/ailib/index.html
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	Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World	REF. GN495.4.E53 1993

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
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