Online databases are an information retrieval system that you can search for articles on a specific topic. The following is a selected list of databases for public health with the discipline focus presented in the parentheses.
ABI/Inform (Business and management)
Academic Search Complete (Comprehensive subject areas)
Global Health (Public health)
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (for searching journal impact factor)
Nexis Uni (Legislation and law)
MEDLINE (Ovid) (Biomedical sciences and health care)
National Center for Health Statistics (Health/disease statistics data)
PsycINFO (Psychology)
PubMed (Biomedical sciences and health care)
Scopus (Science and social science)
Sociological Abstracts (Social science)
SportDiscus with Full Text (Physical therapy and exercise science)
Web of Science (Science and social science)
WorldCat (Online catalog to search library collections all over the world)