Library Guides: Grey Literature: Psychology

Grey Literature Collections

Psychological Tests

PsycTESTS (Ovid)
Mental Measurements Yearbook (Ovid)
CINAHL Plus When you know the details of a test, enter the test title in the search box then select IN Instrumentation from the Select a Field drop down menu and click Search. If you do not know the name or details of a particular test, you can search by keyword (e.g. depression) and combine with terms such as Instrument, Measure*, Psychological Tests, Questionnaire, Scale, Tests, Survey etc.

Statistics

The most recent census information and data on various aspects of health in Australia.

Australian Institute of Health & Welfare (AIHW)

Australian Government body for health data and reports on Australia's health and welfare. Includes alternate biannual publications of Australia's Health and Australia's Welfare.

AIHW - Data on Request Instructions on how researchers and the community can request data not publicly available.
AIHW - Metadata Online Registry (METEOR) Australia's repository for national metadata standards for health, housing and community services.
GEN: data and information about aged care services in Australia
MyHospitals Now hosted on AIHW, reports about hospitals in Australia. A link to Direct data access is provided.

Other Australian health statistics

Australian Government Department of Health Statistics Statistics on General Practice, Medicare, Hospitals, and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Australian Institute of Family Studies An Australian Government site including "facts and figures" on aspects of Australian families, many with health implications, such as wellbeing, older people and births.
NSW Health - Data Open data on NSW health topics such as Ambulance Performance, Cancer, Child Health, Chronic Disease, Deaths, Elective Surgery, Emergency Departments, Healthy Lifestyles and Infectious Diseases.
Social Health Atlases -- Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU) Torrens University hub of Public Health data, including topic atlases, graphs and maps, comparing regions and socioeconomic groups across Australia.

International health statistics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Data and statistics by topic, mostly only from the USA.
Department of Health & Social Care, UK Health statistics from the United Kingdom.
Global Health Observatory (GHO) data (WHO) "A world of health data" - search by indicator or country. Includes a large collection of health maps.
MedlinePlus Health Statistics, US From the US National Library of Medicine. Data from the US.
National Center for Health Statistics, US Hosted by CDC, health statistics from the USA.
New Zealand Ministry of Health Data and Statistics Excellent site from the Ministry of Health in New Zealand.
Statistics by Country World Health Organisation Institutional Repository for Information Sharing
Health Statistics - Canada Data, statistics, reports and infographics on Canadian health.
Unicef ChildInfo datahub Datasets, publications, guidance and visualisations on various topics of international child health.
United Nations - Demographic & Social Statistics Broader than health statistics, but useful for sociological issues related to population and society internationally.
World Bank Open Data "Free and open access to global development data". Filter by the Health indicator for information about mortality rates, health workforces, life expectancy and more.

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Grey Literature: Psychology

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Psychological Tests

Statistics

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