Nursing: Patient Information

Concise topic summaries for patients from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Allows free access, but must create a free account.

Health recommendations for US residents who are planning to travel abroad. includes diseases travelers should be most concerned about and what types of precautions (vaccinations, sanitation recommendations, etc.) need to be taken either before or during their travel.

Use the A-Z list- AWESOME amount of data.

Most commonly accessed stats

OECD- Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development: infant death, disease, dental health, cancer, morbidity, and more.

The WHO is "the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends." Hence: Authoritative.

Run by the CDC, this has info on A-Z topics and more.

Unicef is advocate for children and health, so topics here align: child mortality rates, nutrition, health, education, demographics, protection, disparities and much more. Can access their yearly publication: The State of the World’s Children.

Over 3,000 datasets. This information includes clinical care provider quality information, nationwide health service provider directories, databases of the latest medical and scientific knowledge, consumer product data, community health performance information, government spending data and much more.

A unique feature of these publications is their projections of the number of cancer cases and deaths expected in each state and in the nation in the current year. Each edition of Cancer Facts & Figures includes a Special Section of in-depth focus on a specific cancer or group of cancers.