Prevalence: definition from Merriam-Webster

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Preventing Chronic Disease (publication) - supports searching
• Data & Statistics: Training & Education, sections on Immunization, Infectious Disease, Injury & Violence, and others
• National Safety Council
  • for Fact Sheets on injuries
  • for publications of annual statistics (also available in print in the LSC-NH Library)

Consumer health materials from magazines and brochures.


 

Search for "prevalence and <disease or injury>"
Add terms as needed to focus your results, e.g., prevalence and diabetes and children and Texas
Restrict your results to Full-Text, Scholarly Journals, and the last several years.

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For patient education materials

• Medlineplus.gov
• American Cancer Society
• National Cancer Institute

For patient education materials in multiple languages

• Medlineplus.gov: Health Information in Multiple Languages