LibGuides: PBH 360: Research Methods: Articles

Use the recommended databases below for your PBH 360 assignments. If you want to view other journals take a look at this list of Public Health journals listed below.

This list of resources contains links to UNLV paid databases and search engines to complete your assignments.

APA PsycINFO 1887-Current
Good for: Researching psychological literature.
Contains: Journal articles, books, and dissertations.
Dates covered: 1800-present.
CINAHL
Good for: Researching nursing and allied health topics.
Contains: Index of nursing and allied health literature.
Dates covered: 1982-present.
Google Scholar
Good for: Conducting academic research on all subjects.
Contains: Articles, theses, books, abstracts, patents, and court opinions

Google Scholar searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports from many academic and technical fields. It is freely available to anyone searching the Internet; however, many of the links that lead to full text resources are not. On your first visit, go to Google Scholar Preferences and use the Library Links box to set UNLV as your source for no-fee access to many full text articles.
Medline via Web of Science
Good for: Finding medical and life sciences articles.
Contains: Citations to journal articles.
Dates covered: 1950-present.

Searching Medline on the Web of Knowledge platform allows you to also search several other databases at the same time.
PubMed
Good for: Finding medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences articles.
Contains: Indexed citations and abstracts to journal articles.
Medline via OVID
Good for: Finding articles on biomedicine and life sciences.
Contains: Article citations and abstracts.

The following is a list of core public health journals. You can search these journals from the library website using the A-Z list of journal titles.

The American Journal of Public Health
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Annual Review of Public Health
BMC Public Health
BMJ
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Environmental Health Perspectives
Epidemiology
Health Affairs: the Policy Journal of the Health Sphere
Health Care Financing Review
Health Services Research
Health Policy and Planning
International Journal of Epidemiology
JAMA
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
Journal of Health Policy
Lancet
Medical Care
Milbank Quarterly
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
NEJM
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
Public Health Reports
Social Science and Medicine

Harvard Health
Current news articles about health topics written by medical professionals and published by the Harvard Medical School
HealthyPeople
A campaign to eliminate health disparities; contains information about factors that contribute to this and important datasets for understanding health topics
Plain Language Medical Dictionary
Provides definitions to medical terms in everyday language
The Community Guide
A collection of evidence-based findings of the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF); helps you select interventions to improve health and prevent disease in your state, community, community organization, business, healthcare organization, or school

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