Research Guides: Kinesiology 405 Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health: Web Resources

Useful Websites

ChildInfo
Includes statistics concerning maternal health and children from Unicef.
Google Public Data Explorer
Makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.
Global Health Data Exchange
Catalog of the world's health and demographic data.
Global Health Observatory Country Statistics
From WHO.
Guttmacher Institute
Produces a wide range of resources on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health.
Human Rights Watch
Defends the rights of people worldwide
NGO Database
Great selection of NGO's worldwide from Duke University
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries.
Popline
collection of population, family planning and related reproductive health and development literature
Population Reference Bureau
Focus on advancing population and health policies and programs for the developing world.
PMNCH
Partnership for Maternal Neonatal and Child Health from WHO

PubMed
Medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, dentistry, nursing, and health care. Free database from the National Institutes of Health. Citations to biomedical literature from the MEDLINE database, journal articles, and online books. See also Medline. Coverage: 1951-present.

Public Library of Science
Non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making scientific and medical literature freely available.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Nonprofit devoted to public health
RWJF Datahub
UNFPA
United Nations Population Fund has country profiles on various subjects.
UNICEF
Statistics by Country
United Nations Statistics Division
Includes the demographic and social statistics division.
World Health Organization
The health organization within the United Nations containing reports and statistics.
WHOSIS
WHO Statistical Information System
World Bank Open Repository
PDFs of hundreds of publications from the World Bank including many of=n maternal and child health from various countries.