Subject Guides: Hot Topics: Health Equity and Health Disparity: Extending Your Research

Articles—Journals or News?

Journal articles are written by scholars and researchers, who are experts in their fields. They are excellent sources of credible scholarly information. In many library databases you can click a "peer reviewed" or "scholarly article" box to produce a list of references to scholarly articles.
News articles are usually written by journalists at the time an event happens. They provide factual information, quotes, and anecdotes, but usually not much analysis.

CINAHL
Covers journals in nursing and allied health fields
EconLit
Scholarly literature on the economic dimensions of issues/topics.
Medline
Covers medical journals
PAIS
Covers issues in the public debate through a wide variety of international sources.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Covers political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy.

Maine Public Health Data Reports - Health Disparities
Data, Tools, and Statistics
Data, statistical reports, & visualization tools from Health Services Research Information Central, U.S. National Library of Medicine
Data Set Directory of Social Determinants of Health at the Local Level
Lists online data sets covering U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs).
National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
Health Inequalities Data Tool
Public Health Agency of Canada

Find more statistics, charts, and dossiers at Statista

American rural women had their first sexual intercourse earlier than urban women

More deaths by suicide in Canadian areas with high concentrations of First Nations, Inuit, or Métis peoples

Pan - Canadian Health Inequalities Data Tool
Chart isolated from parent graphic & some text centered by Nancy R. Curtis.