LibGuides: Health Studies: Reference Sources

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Print resources on the reference shelves have to be consulted in the library.

Copies of chapters or entries can be made in the photocopy section on level 4 of the library.

Full text of electronic Reference Sources

The Cochrane Library
Independent high-quality evidence for health care decision making
Encyclopedia of Environmental Health
The emphasis is on public health problems: description, detection, evaluation, control and prevention
International Encyclopedia of Public Health
An authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. This encyclopedia will cover all dimensions of the field, from details of specific diseases to the organization of social insurance agencies. A significant percentage of the articles will cover public health aspects of diseases and conditions. Other articles will survey aging, diet, injuries, ethical and legal subjects in public health, measurement and modeling, consumerism, anthropology and sociology, economics, the history of public health, and global issues.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
This Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioural sciences on a grand scale.