Community Health  

You may contact me at 708-534-4139, or pblobaum@govst.edu .  

Or in my absence, please contact the Library Reference Desk for assistance.  l-refere@govst.edu or 708-534-4111 . 

 
For the Library Journals list and access by subject, please click here.

 Other Local Library Catalogs

Strategy to locate and access copies of articles:

1. Conduct a literature search in the  recommended indexes (above)
2. Many indexes include full-text articles in PDF, TXT, and HTML formats.  Use the     icon to for links to other options.
3. If you have a citation (Journal name, article title, year, volume number, etc) use the Full Text Journals List to locate content.
4. Double check the GSU Library Catalog to locate journals in print and microfilm formats, if not found in the Full Text Journals List.
   

Reference Sources - Health Topics

CQ Researcher (About CQ Researcher)
Credo Reference Unlimited    (About CREDO Reference Library)   online reference service featuring over 250 full-text reference titles with over 3 million entries from 57 highly-respected publishers integrated in a robust search engine with many unique interactive features.  

 MedlinePlus  The National Library of Medicine's consumer health library of health topic articles, videos, tutorials, drug references, and self-help and advocacy groups. 

Health Source Consumer  This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

Indexes and Full Text databases. These databases are also listed alphabetically on the Journals & Databases A-Z list.   Click on the   icon in the search results for possible full text availability of an article in other databases, or in the library’s print collection. An Interlibrary Loan request form is also available under "More Options"

CINAHL Plus  with Full Text - (Ebsco) About CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Tutorials:

CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Basic Searching (YouTube) (Powerpoint)

CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Advanced Searching (YouTube)  (Powerpoint) 

Using CINAHL Headings  (YouTube)  (Powerpoint)

Health Source Nursing  This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.  

Proquest Health Library   A subset of the Proquest Research Library. 

PubMed/Medline   - The most complete index for biomedical clinical and research literature, published by the National Library of  Medicine.

• To limit to the Core Nursing Journal subset: Go to "Advanced Search". Under "Limit By Topics, Languages, Journals Groups" select English, Human, and then under Journal Subsets, select "Nursing". 
• PubMed Basics PDF handout
• PubMed / MyNCBI handout (on using the My Account features)
• National Library of Medicine Gateway http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov  (meta search of all NLM databases)
• NLM Resources for Nurses (PDF file)  describes the knowledge-based databases of interest to Nursing at NLM

Interdisciplinary Indexes/Databases

• PsycInfo     The APA index to psychology, counseling, addictions, and related social science and biomedical literature
  
• ABI INFORM   Index and full text database to business and management literature. Contains many health care and health services policy, management, and administration journals.  
• Biosys Previews   combines the content of both Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings), thus providing comprehensive coverage of nearly 5,500 life science journals as well as 1,500 items from international meetings, review articles, books, book chapters, patents, and software reviews.Topics include agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, immunology, microbiology, molecular genetics, neuroscience, pharmacology, public health, toxicology, zoology.
• ERIC   Published by the US Department of Education.  Contains both citations to journals, and ERIC documents. 80% of ERIC documents are published online for free.  http://eric.ed.gov  
• JSTOR    Useful for indexing coverage of health policy, health sciences,  and health economics journals going back to the early 1900's, with some full text coverage of journals such as American Journal of Nursing.
• Dissertations and Theses Full Text    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

Biomedical Journal Collections

• Science Direct College Edition  
• Health Science Collection (Sage)
• Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Yourjournals@OVID)

Updated 10/8/2011  pb

Try these LC areas for browsing Community Health subjects.

RA965.5  Community and hospital 
RA421   Community Health Services 
RC455   Community psychiatry 
RA776.9  Health behavior
RA427.8  Health Promotion
RA790.5 Community psycholoy
RA1  Public Health
RA652.2.P82  Epidemiology
RT97  Public Health Nursing
RT98 Community Health Nursing
RT90.3   Health promotion nursing 

HealthFinder.gov    healthfinder.gov has resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet. 

A directory of Health Associations is available

7/24/2011