Unique, hard-to-find materials from the frontlines to make your research complete. 

Every day, frontline health providers, hospital systems, foundations, patient groups, practitioner communities, governments, think tanks, and other organizations produce critical research, pilot projects, real-world evaluations, newsletters, and collaborative projects. Until now, this material has been scattered, mixed with unreliable sources, and prone to disappearance. It’s uncitable and rarely captured by journals or indexing services.

Public Health and Social Care integrates this wealth of information into a single, high-functionality resource. It provides daily updates, advanced searching, and unique identifiers, and it preserves the material for future reference. A wide range of institutions and sources are covered:

  • Public health agencies

  • Medical associations

  • Medical foundations

  • Hospitals

  • Data collection and reporting agencies

  • Charities

  • Local, state, and national governments

  • Research institutes

  • Expert bloggers

  • Funding agencies

  • Pharmaceutical and medical companies

  • Health Commissions

  • Health consulting companies

  • Community health organizations

  • Nursing and allied health organizations

  • Academic and professional societies

  • Disease surveillance and reporting organizations

  • NGOs and think tanks

Our editors select organizations known for their reliability and impact. They’re checked regularly, and the database is updated daily.

Unique Content

Public Health and Social Care covers materials you won’t find in traditional health databases. Our focus isn’t journals, books and formal publications.  We’re not aiming for conference proceedings, data sets or dissertations. Instead, we’re focused on materials such as:

  • Research studies and reports

  • Case reports and case series

  • Performance data

  • Guidelines and manuals

  • Community health needs and impact assessments

  • Blogs and social media

  • Protocol and methodology papers

  • Health education and promotional literature

  • Policy and positioning statements

  • Newsletters and blogs

  • Disease surveillance reporting

  • Health technology assessments

With Public Health and Social Care you can…

  • Enrich your evidence base: Access practical insights, outcomes of pilot projects, real-world assessments, evaluations of interventions, and collaborative projects that cross traditional disciplinary and sectoral boundaries.

  • Fill knowledge gaps: Find the latest research, innovations, and best practices long before they’re documented in journals. Get research updates appearing in newsletters, funding reports, and other sources.

  • Inform policy and decision-making: Easily track down insights from policymakers and practitioners. Trace your impact and see how your organization is mentioned in this literature.

  • Ensure inclusivity and diversity: Incorporate information about the vulnerable and aging; people with learning, physical, or sensory difficulties; caregivers; indigenous peoples, non-whites, and ethnic minorities; LGBTQ+ people; and immigrants.

Content highlights

Global and custom coverage

Content is gathered from around the world. The focus is on producers of English-language material, but other organizations are included on request.

COVID-19 and other emergent diseases— content archive

A newly created archive of 150,000 studies, impact statements, and other items preserves details of the COVID-19 pandemic, the H1N1 and ZIKA emergencies, and other crises caused by emergent viruses, so lessons learned are not lost. We invite libraries and researchers to suggest and submit items to preserve them.

Purchase options

The database launches in May 2024 with 250,000 items, growing to 1+ million publications by the middle of 2025, available by subscription or with an optional purchase of perpetual rights.

  • A 150,000-item archive is available for one-time purchase, which includes content rescued from influential organizations that have ceased to exist.

  • Public Health and Social Care is a module on the Policy Commons platform.  There’s less than twenty percent content overlap with other modules, and pricing takes this into account. None of the materials in the archive are duplicated in other modules.

  • Other modules in Policy Commons include:

For more information and to register for a trial, contact sales@coherentdigital.net