Health Education/Community Health Subject Guide Subject guides are designed to help students begin the research process, find reputable sources, and save time. Searching the Library Catalog for Books & Other Materials To locate books
and other materials in CCSF Libraries, select the Library
Catalog from the Library's Homepage. You will notice
many ways to search, such as Title, Author, Subject, Subject Keyword,
etc. Reserve Materials include books, sample tests, class notes, and other items that instructors put at the library for class use. The check out time is shorter than regular circulating books. To search for a book on reserve in the Library Catalog, select either Reserves by Course or Reserves by Instructor. When you have located the materials, write down the Call Number and Title and present this to a staff person at the Circulation Desk. Browsing the Library Collection Materials in
the Library are shelved by call number according to the Library
of Congress classification system. Books are arranged on
the shelves by subject. Relevant areas in the collection to find materials on women’s health include:
Reference books provide background information and overviews on a given topic. Relevant reference books for health education and community health include: Reference Sources American College of Physicians Complete Home Medical Guide. 2nd ed. New York: DK Publishing, 2003. Ref RC 81 .A5386 2003 Encyclopedia of Health & Behavior. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c2004. 2 vols. Ref R 726.5 .E53 2004 Occupational Health and Safety Handbook. prepared by Sex Workers for Sex Workers. 2nd ed. San Francisco: St.James Infirmary, 2004. Ref RA 425 .O23 2004 Physicians’ Desk Reference : PDR. Oradell, NJ: Medical Economics, 2006. Ref RS 75 .P5 2006 Shannon, Joyce Brennfleck, ed. Diet and Nutrition Sourcebook. 3rd ed. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2006. Ref RA 784 .D534 2006 Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006.Ref H 61 .O66 A26 2006 Levine, Carol. Taking Sides. Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues. Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw Hill/Dushkin, 2006.Ref H 61 .T353 2006 Searching for Articles in Periodical Databases Periodical databases group together journal, magazine, and newspaper articles by subject. They also usually provide abstracts (brief summaries) and the full text of the articles. Do you need help identifying the differences between scholarly journal v. popular magazine articles? Note: Most periodical databases are part of the private, passworded Web, so you will need to have a current CCSF ID card with a barcode to access those that CCSF subscribes to. All current CCSF Student ID cards should already have a barcode. More information about obtaining a library bar code. Infotrac Web CQ provides lengthy research reports written by the editorial staff of the Congressional Quarterly Co. Examples of reports related to health: “Abortion Showdowns” 9/22/2006; “Methamphetamine” 7/16/2005; “Rising Health Costs” 4/7/2006; “Stem Cell Research” 9/1/2006; “War on Drugs” 6/2/2006. Comprised of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America, this unique body of materials covers a wide range of current topics and countless other social, political and educational subjects. More than 200 publications covering 1995 to the present are represented, and searchable in both English and Spanish. Below are some examples of academic/scholarly web sites helpful for research on women’s health. If you use a search engine, such as Google, remember to evaluate the quality of the results. Web Resources for General Reference Medline Plus. http://medlineplus.gov This webpage is sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. You can start your research here with the Online Medical Encyclopedia and Dictionary, the Health Topics directory to basic information, and links to websites. Medline Plus provides many links to pages from other U.S. government agencies and from national health organizations. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this site provides an A-Z index of health conditions and topics. For many topics there are basic statistics and fact sheets. Like Medline Plus, there are links to other helpful governmental and organization websites. National Institutes of Health. http://www.nih.gov Also sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIH focuses on promoting medical discoveries, so this site is rich in links to clinical trials and new medical research. HealthySF. http://www.healthysf.org This actively growing website is focused on health issues for San Francisco. San Francisco Department of Public Health. http://www.dph.sf.ca.us Look here for information about local health services and resources. Links are provided to locally created health studies, including statistical studies. National Center for Health Statistics. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs This website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a great starting place for finding statistical information for the United States. World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/ WHO is the United Nations health agency. Under the tab for Research Tools, you can find statistics by country for many diseases and health conditions. WHO”s web site can be used in six languages. The WWW Virtual Library: Medicine and Health: Epidemiology. http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/epidem/epidem.html Univeristy of California San Francisco provides links to U.S. and international sources for epidemiological information. PubMed. www.pubmed.gov At this website the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health maintains an extensive database of citations to journal articles in medicine and health sciences. Most of the citations come with abstracts (summaries) but very few have links to the actual text of the articles. Evaluating
Sources For additional
help you may contact the Reference Desk by phone at (415)
452-5543 or stop by the East and West reference desks at the Rosenberg
Library. eRef Several useful sources for evaluating the quality of web pages, how to prepare citations for a "Bibliography" or "Works Cited" list, and how to avoid plagiarism. Purdue's Online Writing Lab One of the most thorough and easy to navigate writing labs avaialble! A+ Research and Writing Hosted by the Internet Public Library. Writing Process @ CSU Colorado State University developed these guides which "focus on a range of composing processes as well as issues related to the situations in which writers find themselves."
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