Access peer-reviewed, full-text articles on public health topics in multiple databases. For help with how to plan your search for articles, see the tabs at the left, or contact your librarian!
Databases:
- Academic Search Premier
a database with articles from a wide array of disciplines - CINAHL
has articles on the health sciences, covering disciplines such as nursing, social work, occupational and physical therapy, etc. - ERIC
resources on topics in education and public policy which affects children - PubMed
the largest biomedical database - articles in this database have a more clinical focus - Scopus
can track an author's publication history or do key word searches - SocIndex
database with articles on the social sciences
Popular journals:
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine"The American Journal of Preventive Medicine is the official journal of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. It publishes articles in the areas of chronic and acute disease prevention research, teaching, practice and policy... Of particular emphasis are papers that address the primary and secondary prevention of important clinical, behavioral and public health issues such as injury and violence, infectious disease, women's health, smoking, sedentary behaviors and physical activity, nutrition, diabetes, obesity, and alcohol and drug abuse."
- American Journal of Public Healththe journal of the American Public Health Association
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ReportThe Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR ) series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Often called “the voice of CDC,” the MMWR series is the agency’s primary publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations.
- Obesity Reviews"...the official reviews journal of the World Obesity Federation..." "Obesity Reviews is a monthly journal publishing reviews on all disciplines related to obesity and its comorbidities. This includes basic and behavioral sciences, clinical treatment and outcomes, epidemiology, prevention and public health." "Obesity Reviews is the highest ranked obesity journal by Impact Factor (ISI Journal Citation Reports)."
- Population Health Metricsa journal which "...addresses issues relating to concepts, methods, ethics applications, and results in the measurement of the health of populations. This includes areas of health state measurement and valuation, summary measures of levels of population health, and inequality in population health, descriptive epidemiology at the population level, burden of disease and injury analysis, disease, and risk factor modeling for populations and comparative assessment of risks to health at population level. "