| Getting
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| Selecting
a Topic - If you need to select your own
topic and don't know where to begin, consider the
material covered in your classes that interests you,
talk to faculty members for ideas, it may also be
useful to browse news
sources. |
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your subject manageable, i.e. begin as
specifically as possible. For instance, managed
health care is an extremely broad topic. Managed
health care and prescription drugs for the elderly
is a more refined topic with a greater likelihood
of yielding a manageable amount of information.Work
from a specific topic, then broaden your search
to include surrounding issues as needed.
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| Accessing
articles from home? |
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| Looking
for journal articles on a particular topic?
Search the following databases. |
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If you are off campus, you
must first login on the Library
homepage before accessing the databases below.
This is only a partial list of the Library's databases,
for a complete list go to the Databases
page. |
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PubMed
- Premier bibliographic database in medicine, indexes
articles from over 5000 medical and health sciences
journals. |
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CINAHL
- Major resource for locating nursing, allied health
and health administration journal articles.
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Nursing
and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive - Contains
full-text journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine,
health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. |
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Health
Business FullTEXT Elite - Contains full-text articles
concerned with the business and administration aspects
of medicine. |
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Lexis-Nexis - Good resource to
use when looking for legislation documents, case law,
and news articles. |
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ScienceDirect/Elsevier Journals - Offers
full-text access to journals published by Elsevier,
Harcourt, and Academic Press. |
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Synergy/Blackwell
Journals - Offers full-text access to journals published
by Blackwell Publishing. |
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| Trying
to find a specific book or journal title? |
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| Is
the journal article or book you need not owned by the Library? |
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| Epidemiology
software product information, data sets, agencies, organizations
and associations, all relating to public health? See: |
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| Need
to locate a particular branch of the state or federal government? |
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| Try
FirstGov. It's
also a good place to locate laws, regulations, federal
forms, the text of historical documents such as the
Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution, as well
as some government publications. |
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| Want
information about public health on the state level? |
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| Looking
for policies, surveys & reports? |
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| Organizations Producing
Gray Literature in Health Policy and Public Health
-- This is a web site maintained by the New York Academy
of Medicine containing links to a multitude of non-profit
organizations and reports that may not be found in traditional
indexes or databases. |
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are some links to specific research organizations: |
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute
- Is a non-profit organization concerned with issues
of human sexuality, reproduction. Many of their reports
can be purchased or downloaded for free. |
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Commonwealth Fund
- A private organization that supports research concerning
on health and social issues. Many of the reports published
by them are available for free over the Internet.
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Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Is a private
foundation focusing on public health issues at the national
level. |
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Pew Charitable Trusts
- Supports non-profit activities in the areas of public
health, policy and other societal concerns.
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National Academy Press - Created
by the National Academies, it publishes numerous online,
full-text books written by some of the leading experts
in the field of public health. |
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National Academy for State Health Policy -
A non-profit, non-partisan organization involved in
helping states examine and develop public health policies.
While some reports must be purchased, many can be freely
downloaded. |
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Office of the Surgeon General - Issues
full-text reports in electronic format, on a broad range
of health issues. |
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Public Health Foundation - Conducts
research regarding health improvement and planning of
the public health infrastructure. |
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| Need
international information? Try some of these web sites!
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| Pan American Health Organization - As part of
the World Health Organization, the PAHO provides reports
on national health status, health trends, analysis,
and more. |
| World Health Organization -The place to go
for global health statistics, reports and outlooks.
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| Eurostat
- The statistical office of the European Communities.
Provides a broad range of european demographic information.
Some reports may require payment. |
| UNICEF - A great source for international
public health information, with a focus on children.
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| Some
final tips: |
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| Always
identify and document the primary source of information.
For example, if you read about a report or study in
an article, try and get a copy of that report.
This way you can see the information first hand and
formulate your own conclusions. |
If
you still can't find what you're looking for
call
the Reference Desk at (914) 594-4210 or send your
question to a Reference Librarian by using the "Ask
a Librarian" reference feature (a link is
for this is available at the top of every Library
page). |
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other useful links: |
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Beginning
Your Research at the Library (a tip sheet) |
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A
subject list of other Library tip sheets |
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Updated
6/19/09 H. Lougee-Heimer |
