Library Guides: Public Health Portal Research Guide: Matas Library Instruction

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PHA workshop: Finding, retrieving, analyzing and using literature (ethically)

The Matas library made times for you to get help on your PHA or help you make dedicated time to working on it.

Tidewater Room 1206

Workshop Pre-Assessment (survey)
Thank you for taking the time to complete this informal survey. It prevents guessing as to your information needs for a good PHA.

Help Sessions: PubMed

The New PubMed presentation
January 21, 2020

LIterature Searching for TA's and RA;s Pre-workshop survey

Intermediate PubMed
used for workshop, Lliterature Searching for TA's and RA's, 1/24/2019

LIterature Searching for TA's and RA's Post-workshop survey

Basic PubMed Lesson
Lesson Plan with links used in instruction
Basic and Intermediate PubMed: Presentation
AdvancedFeaturesPubMed Lesson
Lesson Plan with links used in instruction
Searching PubMed with MeSH
PubMed MyNCBI
Variations on the Life of a Journal Article
Used for LIterature Searching for TA's and RA's 1/24/2019

PubMed misses the big picture when it comes to nutrition
Article

Nutrition articles can be difficult to find. Search using this 'hedge' in the PubMed search box: “food OR foods OR beverages OR diet OR dietary OR vitamin OR vitamins OR nutrition OR nutritional OR nutrition disorders OR food industry OR nutritional physiological phenomena OR dietary fats OR dietary proteins OR feeding behaviour”

To the above hedge, add a subject to the end (i.e. "elder abuse")

MeSH on Demand
Use MeSH on Demand to find MeSH terms relevant to your text up to 10,000 characters directly from your text such as an abstract or grant summary
For more information on MeSH On Demand
article

Downloading PubMed Records into Citation Management Software

Select Send to - Citation Manager. Click the radio button for Citation manager, and then click the Create File button to download a citations.nbib. Import the nbib file into your citation manager software.

Handouts

Literature Search Process
How to Develop a Search Strategy
Database table for public health projects
SP 2020 On-Demand Workshops
(in construction as of 1/17/2020)
Anatomy of a Research Paper
Learn about the different parts of an academic research paper

Help Session: Evidence-based Public Health

Evidence-Based Public Health: Presentation
Neri, E. M., Stringer, K. J., Spadaro, A. J., Ballman, M. R., & Grunbaum, J. A. (2015). Common pathways toward informing policy and environmental strategies to promote health: A study of CDC's prevention research centers. Health Promotion Practice, 16(2),
[scroll to page 2] "There is a growing body of literature on measuring the impact and effectiveness of public health policies and environmental strategies. In an analysis of 5 systematic reviews of 52 public health laws, 27 of the laws were found effective, 23 did not have sufficient evidence, 1 was harmful, and 1 was ineffective at promoting healthy behavior."
Grey Literature Presentation

After Tulane

Access, Research, Citation Management, Productivity, and Lifelong Learning after Graduation

For Gradutating Students