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Sources for Research in Health Education

  1. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks, and other Reference books can be useful for finding definitions, topic introductions, statistics, research findings and methods, or further references.
    2. APA Dictionary of Psychology
    Ref Desk (1st floor) BF 31 .V295 2007
    Child Poverty in America Today
    Ref. HV 741 .C4875 2007 (4 vols.)
    Clinical Sports Medicine
    Ref. Desk (1st floor) RC 1210 .B78 2007
    Conn's Current Therapy
    Ref. Desk (1st floor) RM 101 .C87 2008
    Crisis in Youth Mental Health
    Ref. RJ 503 .C76 2006
    Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
    Ref. Desk (1st floor) RC 71 .A14 2007
    Dictionary of Health Economics and Finance
    Ref. RA 410 .A3 .D53 2007
    Dictionary of Public Health
    Ref. RA 423 .L37 2007
    Dictionary of Public Health Promotion and Education
    Ref. RA 440.5 .M634 2004
    Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
    Ref. R 121.D73 2007 and Ref. Desk (1st floor)
    Encyclopedia of Addictions and Addictive Behaviors
    Ref. RC 564 .G95 2006
    Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society
    Ref. RC 254.5 .E48 2007 (3 vols.)
    Encyclopedia of Epidemiology
    Ref. RA 652 .E533 2008 (2 vols.)
    Encyclopedia of Global Health
    Ref. RA 441 .E53 2008 (4 vols.)
    Encyclopedia of Health and Aging
    Ref. RA 777.6 .E534 2007
    Encyclopedia of Hepatitis and Other Liver Disorders
    Ref. RC 845 .C46 2006
    Encyclopedia of Health & Behavior
    Ref. Desk (1st floor) R 726.5 .E53 2004
    Encyclopedia of Obesity
    Ref. RC 628 .E53 2008 (2 vols.) 
    Encyclopedia of Public Health
    Ref. 423 .E53 2002
    Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
    Ref. RC 514 .N63 2007
    Encyclopedia of Stress and Stress-Related Diseases
    Ref. QP 82.2 .S8 .K34 2006
    Gale Encyclopedia of Diets
    Ref. Desk (1st floor) RA 784 .G345 2008 (2 vols.)
    Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
    Ref. RC 41 .G35 2006 (5 vols.)
    Handbook of Health Behavior Research
    (4 vols.) Ref. RA 776.9 .H363 1997
    Handbook of Health Psychology and Aging
    Ref. RA 564.8 .H36 2007
    Homelessness in America
    Ref. HV 4505 .H65117 2008 (3 vols.)
    Infectious Diseases
    Ref. RC 111 .I516 2008 (2 vols.)
    Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy
    Ref. Desk (1st floor) RC 55 .M4 2006
    Pandemics and Global Health
    Ref. Desk (1st floor) RA 649 .Y65 2008
    Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs
    Ref. RA 427.8 .M393 2001
    Praeger Handbook of Black American Health
    Ref. RA 448.5 .N4 .H364 2004 (2 vols.)
    Sexual Health
    Ref. HQ 21 .S47364 2007 (4 vols.)
    State of Health Atlas: Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease
    Ref. Desk (1st floor)
    G 1046 .E5 .O366 2008
    Whole Person Healthcare
    Ref. R 733 .W489 2007 (3 vols.)

  2. Abstracting/Indexing databases for finding journal articles in print or electronic format are:
    • Academic Search Premier
    • CINAHL
    • ERIC
    • Health Reference Center
    • Medline
    • Professional Development Collection
    • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
    • ScienceDirect
    • SocINDEX
    • Wilson OmniFile

  3. Interlibrary loan (ILL) can be used to request items not found in the Library Catalog or Periodicals Holdings/360 link. This requires initial ILLiad registration online. Submit request form links from most databases; notification is by email and delivery is mostly in electronic format through your ILLiad account. Books are picked up and returned at the Circulation Desk, first floor.

  4. Health Internet links to World Wide Web sites are found under
    Find Facts/Subject Guides/Health. A few select links are:

  5. Standardized educational/psychological tests and measurements, questionnaires/surveys are often described and evaluated, sometimes with sample questions and references provided.
    6. Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment
    Ref. BF 176 .C654 2004
    Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures
    Ref. BF 431 .G624
    Mental Measurements Yearbook
    Ref. Z 5814 .P8 .B932 latest ed. at Ref. Desk
    Research Methods in Health Promotion
    Ref. RA 427.8 .R46 2006
    Test critiques
    Ref. Desk BF 176 .T419

  6. Citation style guides are found at the Reference Desk (1st floor); online links under Find Facts/Online Reference Tools/Citation Style Guides
    Concise Rules of APA Style Ref. Desk (1st floor) BF 76.7 .C66 2005
    Publication Manual of the APA Ref. Desk (1st floor) BF 76.7 .P83

Prepared by Ellen Paterson/Health Bibliographer
Updated: 6/4/2009

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