SDNP-ENVIS
A Program Population, Environment & Poverty
 
Population Environment Centre
International Institute for Population Sciences, Deonar Mumbai-400 088

              

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

DATABASES


      Our thematic area Population, Environment and Poverty provides various links to databases available. 

PubMed *NEW ADDITION* — A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Includes links to full-text articles and related resources.

National Institutes of Health — A searchable encyclopedia of health topics.

American Hospital Directory — A free searchable directory of US hospital information.

Globalhealthfacts.org — A data bank of world health information, sortable by country, disease, condition, program, or demographic.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data and Statistics — A data bank of statistical health information compiled by the CDC.

New England Journal of Medicine $ — A scholarly medical journal with full text of current and past issues available online.

Health Economics.com – This contains 108 database sites.

Population Index - This website provides a searchable and browse-able database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000. The website is organized in three major sections: Home, Browse, Copyright Policy.
           Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.

The Champaign Public Health Online Database - The Public Health Database collection of demographic information, health statistics, ... The current indicators available are in the Indicators list.

India Health Stat.com – India(n) health statistics

Indian Health Service - Provides vital event, demographic, social, and economic statistics on American Indians and Alaska Natives living in IHS service areas, as well as patient care and morbidity information for those who use IHS services.

Indian Institute of Forest Management (http://www.iifm.org/)
Management-training institute established in 1982 in Bhopal to develop knowledge useful for managers in the areas of forestry, environment, and natural resources management and allied sectors. Offers degree programs and undertakes consultancy work for national and international clients from government, industry and other allied sectors. Website gives information on the institute's events, mailing list, and publications, research, and seminars. "Data Bank" links to a large categorized collection of statistics, reports, and documents.

International Institute for Population Sciences (http://www.iipsindia.org/)
Institute in Bombay which studies demographics issues, offering graduate level coursework in population sciences and conducts research and training programs. The site features courses offered, faculty information, background on research and training programs, and semiannual newsletter (archived since 2000; in PDF format). Lists titles in research monograph series.

UNESCO - Management of Social Transformations (Unknown)
The database contains examples of good and best practices for policies and projects in Poverty Eradication, Social Exclusion/Integration, Women and Gender Equality, Homelessness and Housing, Economic Development, Community Participation and Urban Governance, and Crime Prevention. http://www.unesco.org

Human Settlements Database Welcome - The database is based on the database model of the Statistical Division (UNECE/STAT) and maintained by the Environment and Human Settlements Division, with specific reference to data on housing and building. Data are collected for the ECE Bulletin of Housing and Building Statistics and through the Country Profiles on the Housing Sector from a number of both national and international sources. Provenance is clearly indicated for each entry.
http://w3.unece.org/stat/HumanSettlements.asp

Human Settlements, Energy and Industry - Climate change will affect human settlements against a very dynamic background of other environmental and socioeconomic factors. Human settlements are expected to be among the sectors that could be most easily adapted to climate change, given appropriate planning and foresight and appropriate technical, institutional, and political capacity. http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/pdf/wg2TARchap7.pdf

Human Settlements Programme - The Human Settlements Programme works to reduce poverty and improve environment, health and housing conditions in the urban centres of Latin America, Asia and Africa. Our free searchable online database of all articles from EVERY issue of E&U and other IIED urban publications has been updated.
http://www.poptel.org.uk/iied/human/index.html

Data Key Development data and Statistics - The data presented here are the most widely-used, official-source development data from the World Bank and other international agencies. For additional data and a where-to-find guide, please visit the Data Search page.
www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html
 

 
 
 
Data on Thematic Area
 
Population Density & Forest Cover