LibGuides: Public Health: Overview

eReference Sources for Health Promotion

Centers for Disease Control
Website. Includes link to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Medline Plus
Sage e-Encyclopedias on Health

Gale Reference eBooks

Breslow, Lester. 2002. Encyclopedia of Public Health.
Not especially up to date. 2002.
Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe
Drew Barrett et al. 2016. Springer free ebook.
Handbook of Health Behavior Change (2014)

Other Library Guides

Also see our guides for Exercise Science, for Athletic Training, for Nutrition,and for Health.

Some of our journals for Health Promotion and Public Health

American Journal of Public Health

Annual Review of Public Health
This is now a free (open access) journal, volume 1 to the latest. Thanks, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
American Journal of Health Promotion
Health Promotion International
Health Promotion Practice
Global Health Promotion
Journal of Community Health
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Video -- How to Find a Journal
A quick look at finding a journal (2:35)
Also, you can just Google a "journal name" on campus and almost always get access, if we have a subscription.

Location of Books

We have many ebooks for Health Promotion topics also.

R for Health Sciences
RA for Public Health
RA 427.8 for Health Promotion

Nearly all items with call numbers starting with R will be located on the third floor of the Belk Library.

Types of Plagiarism

Source: Information Literacy: Plagiarism

Avoiding Plagiarism
This infographic can be downloaded as a machine-readable PDF using this link.

Databases, for Finding Journal Articles

APPsearch, on our main page, is useful for many searches. It will search most of the databases listed below.

For most important health problems, there should be a recent systematic review of all studies. Try including the phrase "systematic review" or just "review" in your search.

PubMed
PubMed and Medline are approximately the same huge database, with different interfaces. PubMed gets updated slightly faster and covers slightly more health sciences literature, and it's free on the Web. But many people find Medline easier to use.

PubMed provides access to bibliographic information from more than 5,200 journals in the life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, and provides access to over 14 million citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

Coverage: 1950-present
Google Scholar
CINAHL Complete
Good on a broad range of health topics, though focus is Nursing and Allied Health. Lots of full text.

Provides indexing to nearly 1,200 nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals, as well as publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. It includes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, and educational software. Abstracts are included for over 250 journals.
PsycINFO

Covers psychology and related disciplines,with 97 percent of the material peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Coverage: 1887-present
Education Source

Education Source provides full text access for more than 1,800 journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for thousands more. Also including are full text for 550 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. Education Source is an upgrade from Education Research Complete.

Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Source also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
Sports Medicine & Education Index

Previously called Physical Education Index. Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications.

Covers physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, health education, kinesiology, motor learning, physical therapy, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology.

Coverage: 1970-present
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
Exercise and sport sciences. Lots relevant to health promotion.

The comprehensive international content of the database is drawn from websites, journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, etc.

Sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness, and other sport and fitness-related topics.

Coverage: 1900-present
Medline
Medline is the major component of PubMed, so you usually do not need to use both.
Change to relevance ranking, for most searches.
You can also change this to a Web of Science search.

Via ISI Web of Knowledge...MEDLINE contains over 12 million records and indexes 3,500+ journals published internationally.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine database covers journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine. Coverage also includes nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. Also covers life sciences that are vital to biomedical practitioners, researchers, and educators, including some aspects of biology, environmental science, marine biology, plant and animal science as well as biophysics and chemistry.

Coverage: 1950-present

Evidence-Based Resources

Cochrane Library
Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and CENTRAL, a databases of RCTs.
About 57 systematic reviews with the phrase "health promotion" and 164 with the phrase "public health." Click to trials for the 5100 primary studies with the phrase "health promotion." Cochrane has a Review Group for Public Health.
Cochrane Library
alternate splash page, more like a journal's
Campbell Collaboration
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
TRIP

Getting Full Text!

Our Find@ASU button in our article databases takes you to electronic full text, if we have it.

Video -- Click on Find@ASU
4 minute video

Still not getting full text? Many full text articles are available for free in some form. If you have a distinct article title or a DOI, try a quick search in Google Scholar (and Google). We also have ILLiad to get articles from other libraries. NEW -- Try Unpaywall.

Unpaywall
I've been happy with this, a button that turns green when it detects free access.. Add it to your browser: Chrome, Firefox, and probably Safari.

Nuances in choosing words -- PICO

PICO

Helps with creating an answerable, useful question. Helps with choice of search words.

Problem or population -- soccer players

Intervention -- preventive training (or more specific type of preventive training)

Comparison treatment (or placebo) -- alternate type of preventive training? what's being used up to now.

Outcome -- count frequency and severity of injuries. Missed games or training.

APA Formatting and Style

Living with APA

Formatting in APA style
APA samples by the AppState Writing Center
When to CIte -- Belk Library
In-text citations and reference list
Plagiarism: Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. Example 1. Example 2.
Purdue OWL -- APA Basics
Library tools for spitting out not-quite-perfect APA citations: EBSCO databases (right column), Google Scholar (")
If anyone is interested? Zotero (or EndNote X9) citation management software.

APA Changes in the Seventh Edition
By Jim LaBate, Hudson Valley CC

APA Style

The Library has multiple copies of the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). We've started adding copies of APA 7th also.

Contact -- John Wiswell

John Wiswell

Health Sciences Librarian

wiswellj@appstate.edu

Click here for a Zoom appointment.

~~Levine Hall 542F & Belk Library 225~~ (828)262-7853

Available for students, faculty, and staff.

Interlibrary Loan change -- summer 2019

You're using ILLiad, interlibrary loan, right? ILLIad will get you articles from other libraries, in cases when AppState does not subscribe and there is no free (post-peer reviewed) version available.

Your ILLiad password is now your AppState password, the same one you use for AppalNet, AsULearn, and other library access.

Public Health: Overview

Fall 2020!