GalterGuides: Health Professions Education Resources: Health & Society Resources

Government Resources

U.S. Resources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
U.S. Public Health: Preventative Medicine, Environmental Health, Infectious Diseases/Travel Medicine, etc.
CDC Social Determinants of Health
Social Determinants of Health statistics (i.e. smoking, alcoholism, poverty, etc.)
WONDER Database (CDC)
Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER)
NIH Health Services Research & Public Health Information Programs

World Health Resources

World Health Organization (WHO)
Site of the public health arm of the United Nations which monitors global disease outbreaks, assesses the performance of health systems, maintains statistics.
CDC: Global Health

Healthcare Costs Resources

Health Care Cost Tools

Prescription Drug Cost Tools
Prescription drug costs may be found using a variety of commercial sites that offer discounts to patients. Some include:

Health Disparities

Health Statistics

National Statistics

Local Statistics

Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety

ECRI Guidelines Trust
ECRI Guidelines Trust™ is a repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines that provides clinicians and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date, clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care.
GuidelineCentral: Guideline Summaries
HCUPnet: the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Business of Medicine Resources

Health Care Cost Institute
Navigate to Research --> then Publications

Local Resources

Illinois Department of Public Health
Data and Statistics --> select one of several option to query IL public health databases (i.e. birth rates, infant mortality, hospitalizations, substance abuse, transmissible diseases, etc)
Cook County Department of Public Health
Look for Resources --> Data and Reports
Unite Us (Chicago Department of Public Health)
Unite Us is a coordinated care network consisting of healthcare, government, nonprofit, and other organizations.

Community Health Needs Assessment

Health Professions Education Resources