Several sites can provide information on health topics. I suggest you use one of the following:
Centers for Disease Control, Center for Global Health, click on Global Health Issues, and then pick which disease or issue you would like to research.
World Health Organization (WHO) spotlights 10 health issues to track. This website describes all 10 issues.
MedlinePlus International Health, scroll down to Start Here for a list of links to specific topics to research.
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database that includes peer-reviewed journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and more.
Provides instant access to multimedia and core medical textbooks, including Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment and Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.
Originally designed for medical and dental students, the video atlas's realism, simple language, and three-dimensional quality make it useful for allied health students and anyone looking for information about human anatomy.
Database of full-text, peer-reviewed journal articles for psychology research.
Article database covering the fields of nursing and allied health. CINAHL also includes Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons, which provide concise overviews of diseases and conditions and outline the most effective treatment options.
A collection of databases that contain evidence, including systematic reviews, to inform healthcare decision-making for clinical treatment decisions. Provides other sources of information, including technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials.
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers, as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv, and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.
The collection spans topics from nursing, allied health, psychology, diseases, anatomy/physiology, biology, chemical engineering, and much more.
Find hundreds of documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews on today's latest medical progress in health and wellness issues and their impact on society.
The most comprehensive medical database. This resource covers medicine, dentistry, nursing, physical therapy, biomedical research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. This version utilizes the EBSCO interface with the option to search across multiple EBSCO databases.
Public resource that provides information about specific health conditions and diseases for both health consumers and professionals. Links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, and clinical trials.
Database of peer-reviewed journal articles and books for the sciences and social sciences.
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence and evidence-based content to support their practice and/or care.
Physician-authored clinical decision support resource used by clinicians to make point-of-care decisions. (In support of healthcare education in Arizona, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona has sponsored this for your use.)
Statistics are funny, and they can be tricky to use. You have to know who is collecting the data and for what purpose. Here are some sites you may wish to use. Always consider the purpose behind the collection of the data. If the methodology is not explained in how the data is collected and why it is used, be suspicious.