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Updated 20 January 2004

Epidemiology
Public Health 673/674 

(Spring 2004)

Readings on Library Reserve

CDC Epidemiology Program Office

Journal Literature

  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) Full text available
    • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles.
  • Health Reference Center Academic Full text available
    • Citations, abstracts, or full-text access to 700+ general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books, and pamphlets.  Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. 1980- present.
  • Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis) Full text available
    • Index and full text to news, business, legal, medical, and reference materials and links to congressional and statistical information.
  • PubMED — Medline Full text available
    • The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database (citations and abstracts, with some links to full text.
  • AgeLine 
    • Index to materials on social gerontology, including health care and other aging issues. Produced by AARP. 1978 - present.
  • GenderWatch
    • Full text collection of articles covering women's and gender topics.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    • Articles, editorials, reviews, etc. from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Search in English or Spanish. 1990- present.

Health Information

  • CDC WONDER
    • WONDER provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data.
  • Health Links from FedStats
  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
    • The BRFSS, the world's largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States.
  • Healthfinder
  • Nevada State Health Division
    • State of Nevada health programs.
  • Health United States
    • Health statistics, United States.
  • ICPSR
    The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use.

Epi Info Software

Epi Info (download)
With Epi Info and a personal computer, epidemiologists and other public health and medical professionals can rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data.

Critically Evaluating Information Sources

When working on any research project it is important to assess critically the information resources you use to assure that your research conclusions are well supported. Simply put, can the source be trusted? And why? Is the source reliable and authoritative?

Several Web based pages provide insight into critical evaluation of source materials, see:

Ethics and Information

Citation Style Guides