Finding Health Data

Welcome to the Finding Health Data Library Guide. Library guides are created to help learners of all levels access library resources that will help them conduct effective research in their disciplines. You will find research tips, contextual information, and resources of various kinds depending on the type of guide you are looking at. To see a full list of Baylor's Library Guides organized by subject, click here. To return to the Baylor Library's homepage, click here. 

To get started with this guide, work through the tabs on the left or click through the navigation arrows at the bottom of each page. Depending on your needs, you can move through each page of the guide sequentially, or you can skip ahead to the information that is most relevant to your research. 

If you need help defining a research question, finding information, or synthesizing the information that you've already found, don't hesitate to schedule an appointment with one of the librarians featured on the bottom left of this page. We are here to help. 

This guide is designed to help you: 

• explain the difference between health data and statistics 
• understand the different between prevalence and incidence information 
• select appropriate health data sources for your research needs
• identify and locate health data resources in medical, health care, genomic, and disease contexts

This library guide is part of our “spotlight on the disciplines” literacy tier. In this tier you will be introduced to advanced academic research skills. These skills are developed by working with research librarians in upper-level courses specific to their discipline. The spotlight represents the in-depth instruction, library guides, advanced search strategies, and research consultations provided by the research & engagement librarians.