Library Guides: Community Health and Behavioral Science Research Guide: Welcome

Welcome

This guide contains resources which are useful for studying commuity health and behavior.

Recommended Site: PhPartners.org: One-stop shopping for topic-related public health resources

Use PhPartners.org to search for resources by topic. Use its companion tool, Structured Evidence Queries, to locate pre-formulated PubMed search strategies to find published literature to support achieving Healthy People 2020 objectives.

Public Health Partners - Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
PH Partners helps the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public's health. Structured Evidence Queries find published literature in PubMed which supports achieving Healthy People 2020 objectives.

Databases for Public Health

Database Search Skills Workshop
New PubMed (National Library of Medicine), Global Health (OVID) and EMBASE (Elsevier)
November 20, 2019

Academic Search Complete
Health promotion, GLBT, Latin American, Middle East, South Asian and Women's studies
AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access) Agriculture, animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
Biological Abstracts
Biomedicine, genetics, pharmacology
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
AIDS & HIV, chronic disease, dietetics, environmental health, GLBT studies, health policy, health promotion, maternal and child health, medicinal plants, minority health, nutrition, rural health

Cochrane Public Health

EMBASE
Alternative & complimentary medicine, environmental health, genetics, health policy, health services, infectious disease, occupational health, pharmacology, pollution, immunology, toxicology
Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
Environmental biotechnology and engineering, industrial hygiene, pollution, toxicology, U.S. environmental impact statements, waste management
Global Health
Health and Safety Science Abstracts
Emergency management, environmental health, epidemiology, injury, natural disasters, occupational health, pesticides, toxicology, trauma
HealthStar
Citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research (the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery). 1966- present
PolicyMap
A data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, substance abuse, and violence
ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection
PubMed
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Millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and eBooks. Click on TU LINK within a record to explore full text options.
Risk Abstracts
Biological, environmental, industrial, and labor risks. Also, ecological, environmental, industrial, and occupational safety.
Tropical Diseases Bulletin
Infectious diseases, nutrition, parasitology, medical zoology/entomology, reproductive health, traditional medicine, travel medicine

Finding Answers Intervention Research (FAIR) Database
Advancing Health Equity

Find Funding

Foundation Directory Online
Foundation Directory Online is research tool for online funding research to connect grantmakers to grantseekers.

Many organizations such as the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association also include funding opportunities on their web pages.

Grant Forward
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Federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Formerly called IRIS database
Grants.gov
Created by the US Government, search by government agency (e.g., CDC) or by subject
NIH - Grants and Funding
Funding opportunities, awards data and and receipts data.
National Science Foundation
Find Funding.
NIH RePORTER: Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools
Search a repository of NIH-funded research projects and access publications and patents resulting from that funding.
Public Health Partners - Grants and Funding
Public Health Partners - Opportunities for fellowships, grants and other awards, including awards from members of the Partners project.
A Guide to Funding Resources - Rural Information Center (U.S.)
Rural Information Center.