Research Guides: Public Health: Get Started

What you will find here

This guide includes resources for:

Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS)
Health Services Administration and Policy (HIM and HPM)
Epidemiology and Biostatistics (EPBI)
Social Work

The contact information for your department's librarian is available in the boxes labeled Research Help.

Best Public Health Databases

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed contains articles in biomedical sciences, including public health, medicine, nursing, behavioral sciences, health policy, and health education. This database is free and will be available for you to use regardless of whether you have access to a library.
Public Health Database This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Public Health offers core literature for the study of public health, including biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, and behavioral sciences.
CINAHL This link opens in a new window
CINAHL includes nursing and allied health journals. It also includes book chapters, dissertations, and some conference proceedings.
CINAHL Abstracting and Indexing Database
Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students depend on the CINAHL Database to research their subject areas from this authoritative index of nursing and allied health journals. CINAHL indexes the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. CINAHL also includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,446 active global OA journals.  Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.
Subject Headings
CINAHL Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine. These Subject Headings help researchers find new concepts, including COVID-19, social distancing and vaping as well as local terminology.
Content Includes
3,814 active indexed and abstracted journals
3,461 active peer-reviewed indexed and abstracted journals
1,312 journals with searchable cited references
Embase This link opens in a new window
EMBASE contains references to journal articles in biomedicine. The references consist of authors, title, journal data, abstract and keywords. EMBASE contains European literature, and coverage in the field of drug research, pharmacology and pharmaceutics. The database can be searched back to 1974.

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Subjects: Public Health, Social Work

Open Education Resources Textbooks

Epidemiology
by Charlotte Baker (Truveta, formerly Virginia Tech) – This text is designed for medical degree-seeking clinical students without a prior background in public health. Using sports medicine and injury prevention examples and applications, it aims to provide students with the basics of epidemiology terms and concepts and is intended to guide medical school students as they prepare for the USMLE Step 1 Exam and to transition from student to clinician.
Social Determinants of Health in Nursing Education: Integrating Into Curriculum and Practice
by Dawn M. Bowker & Karla Kerkove (Iowa State University) – This workbook was established with nurse educators and nursing students in mind to provide knowledge, guidance, and support for integrating social determinants of health (SDOH) across the nursing education spectrum. Contents from this workbook are applicable to pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing programs, RN-to-BSN programs, and graduate education. The book includes a general information section, pedagogical tools and discussion, case studies, and a facilitator guide (for accompanying the case studies).