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Global Health Resources

This guide provides resources and services to support the global health research of UHSP faculty, staff, and students working on campus and in the field. It includes resources from medical, socioeconomic, political, cultural, and environmental perspective

Getting Started

Global health is a multidisciplinary and collaborative field that embraces transnational research and action to promote health equity for all. 

The field of global health includes socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural factors which may directly or indirectly affect health matters. 

This guide provides resources and services to support the global health research of UHSP faculty, staff, and students working on campus and in the field. It includes resources from medical, socioeconomic, political, cultural, and environmental perspectives. 

Types of Resources

You may need to consult various databases depending on the topic and type of information you are seeking. 

Common types of information used in global health research:

Primary research articles:

Articles reporting original research results. These articles are most often published in peer-reviewed journals. They typically include an abstract, introduction/background, methods, results, conclusion, and a list of references.

Review articles:

Most often published in peer-reviewed journals. Review articles synthesize and summarize a particular topic or area of research. They typically do not provide original research results but provide excellent background information on the state of the research on a particular topic. 

Systematic reviews: 

A very specific type of literature review that provides comprehensive, high-level analyses and summaries of all existing literature surrounding a specific research question. 

News:

Written by journalists for public audiences, news articles provide vital background information and current reporting on many global health topics. News is distributed in printed newspapers and magazines, as well as online through news media websites, blogs, social media, and radio/TV broadcasts. In global health research, news sources might also serve as primary sources for understanding how health topics are disseminated to the public via local newspapers or informal publications.

Grey literature:

Produced by government agencies think tanks, academics, business, and industry in print and online formats, but not controlled by commercial publishers. Material types may include technical reports, preprints, conference proceedings, bibliographies, workshop summaries, government documents, policy briefs, and dissertations. Many of these materials are accessible for free online via the agency website that produces the reports (ex. NGO, WHO, US Gov’t). 

Common Search Terms

Try using these keywords, phrases, and subject headings while searching to find resources about and related to the subject matter of global health. 
  • global health

  • global public health

  • international health

  • International cooperation

  • public health

  • public health administration

  • world health