Where to Start - Public Health Research
This guide provides you with a list of databases, journals, and more to support your public health research.
Article Databases
Featured Resource
Public health research methods by Greg Guest.
For more focused research, use one of the recommended databases listed below.
- Annual Reviews
- CINAHL (Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health) Full Text
- Cochrane Library
- Contemporary Women's Issues
- Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
- GreenFile
- Health Source Nursing/ Academic
- Medline via EBSCO or OCLC
- PsycINFO (APA)
- PubMed
- Sage Research Methods - Browse by discipline 'Public Health'
- ScienceDirect
- SciTech Premium Collection
- SpringerLink
- Taylor & Francis Online
- Web of Science
- Wiley Online Library
Database Guides
Selected Research/ Professional Periodicals
Find Books on the Shelf with LC Call Numbers
- [QP141-185] – Nutrition
- [RA421-790.85] -- Public Health
- [RA601-602] – Food/Food Supply
- [RA638, 643-645] – Immunity, Immunization, Disease
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- American Journal of Public Health
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Journal of Public Health
- Lancet Global Health
- Lancet Infectious Diseases
- Population Health Metrics
- Public Health Reports
Scholarly Journals by Subject (BrowZine)
- All Journals – Public Health
- Community Health and Preventive Medicine
- Environmental Health
- Epidemiology
- General Public Health
- Mental and Social Health
- Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene
- Public Health Education and Promotion
Selected Internet Resources
- AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
- CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- NIH: National Institutes of Health
- OPR: Office of Population Research
- Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
Books, Government Reports, and Specialty Databases
- CQ Researcher
- Dissertations and Theses
- Films on Demand
- Gale in Context: Environmental Studies
- Nexis Uni
- PsycTests
- Tarleton State University Libraries Catalog
- WorldCat
Research and Writing Assistance
- APA Academic Writer
- Citing Sources
- Research Help
- Tarleton Online Writing Tutorial Service
- Tarleton Writing Center
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