Guides: KIN 371: Medical Missions in the Developing World: Diseases & Disabilities

Global Burden of Disease

This interactive tool allows you to analyze the world’s health levels and trends.
Use treemaps, maps, and other charts to explore and compare:

Global Burden of Disease
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) provides a tool to quantify health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health systems can be improved and disparities can be eliminated.

IMHE: Country Profiles
Use the IMHE Country Profile section to view an overview of findings from the Global Burden of Disease. Profile information includes life expectancies, DALYS, and more as well as including good figures that can be included in your report.

GHO: Data Repository
Use the Global Health Observatory's interactive data repository to view health statistics by theme, category, indicator, or country. Also use the GHO's Country Statistics pages to view summary information about health data.

Use the following Library Databases to research how a specific disease effects your country.

Gale in Context: Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Current, international news and viewpoints on global issues and current events. Use this resource for background information and analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, science-related, and cultural issues.
Formerly called Global Issues in Context

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Medline This link opens in a new window
Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.
Health Source - Nursing/Academic This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals covering nursing and allied health topics including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more. Includes more than 320 full-text journals and a comprehensive medical dictionary.

Use the following academic journals to look up specific research currently being done on disease and disabilities in developing countries.

International journal of diabetes in developing countries
International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries targets a readership consisting of clinicians, research workers, paramedical personnel, nutritionists and health care personnel working in the field of diabetes.
Journal of Health Disparities Research & Practice
Explores the problems & challenges of health disparities among the diverse populations of the United States & the World; mission is to present research that will guide the development of evidence based solutions, policy & programs.
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
Intended for the publication of scientific articles from Developing Countries by Scientist from Developing Countries.

WHO: Global Health Observatory Data
Gateway to health related statistics for more than 1,000 indicators for its 194 member states.
WHO: Disabilities & Rehabilitation
World report on disability reviews evidence about the situation of people with disabilities around the world.
GlobalHealth.gov
The Office of Global Affairs works to advance three overarching global health goals:
- Protect and promote the health and well-being of Americans through global action,
- Improve global health and well-being by providing international leadership and technical expertise in science, policy, and programs, and
- Advance United States interests in international diplomacy, development, and security through global action.
Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. Through the research they conduct, they are attempting the answer three critical questions:
1. What are the world's major health problems?
2. How well is society addressing these problems?
3. How do we best dedicate resources to maximize health improvement?

Center for Disease Control & Prevention
The leading national public health institute of the United States. It provides information about infectious diseases, food borne pathogens, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, and injury prevention primarily for the health and protection of the U.S., but it contains a lot of high-level information about diseases.
CDC: Disability & Health
The disability and health section of the CDC website contains basic information about common disabilities including vision, movement, and more.
National Institute of Mental Health
The NIMH is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders. It provides information on mental disorders including symptoms, treatments, and current study. The National Institute of Mental is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.