PUBHLTH 494CI Public Health Sciences Capstone
Resources for the Capstone project
Database Sources
- PubMed This link opens in a new window
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National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of citations to medical journal articles, with links to UMass-subscribed full text, 1946-present. PubMed includes all MEDLINE content, plus content from additional journals and books in the life sciences. - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Index to articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines.Search by cited reference, topic, author, and more. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1900-present; and Science 1900-present. - PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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Published by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed journal literature in psychology, behavioral science and mental health - 2,500 journal titles indexed - 2.8 million records - 1887 to present. - CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
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Current Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Complete includes indexing back to 1937 of over 5,000 journals as well as full-text of over 1,300 journals, 27 books, 134 evidence-based care sheets, 360 research instruments records, 169 quick lessons and more. - Food Science and Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Articles in 1,800 food science journals, plus other scholarly material, on all aspects of food science, nutrition, and processing, 1969-present. - ERIC This link opens in a new window
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Education journal articles (EJ references) and ERIC documents (ED references), 1967-present. EDs before 1997 are requestable using the Microforms Request page and usable in the Microforms Vewing Room in the LC.
A free version of ERIC is available for all to use at this link: https://eric.ed.gov/.
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Independent evidence-based information to inform healthcare decision making for medical caregivers and patients. - PolicyFile This link opens in a new window
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Full text policy papers from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies. - PAIS International This link opens in a new window
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Articles, government documents, reports in the fields of political science, public and social policy, international relations 1915-. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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"Health Policy" is one of JSTOR's disciplines, with 24 sources indexed, including the Journal of Public Health Policy, Public Health Reports, and Milbank Quarterly. Also has a "Health Sciences" discipline.
CLICK ON ADVANCED SEARCH and use the JOURNAL FILTER to limit your search to only these catagories.
Individual Journal Sources
To complete your project, you also need to find evidence-based articles to help make the case for your Recommendations and Implementations. Here are some specific journals that may be good places to start:
- Journal of American College HealthProvides information related to health in institutions of higher education.
*Available 1997-present - Journal of the National Medical Association"The National Medical Association (NMA) is the nation’s oldest and largest organization representing African American physicians and health professionals in the United States. Established in 1895, the NMA is the collective voice of more than 30,000 African American physicians and the patients they serve."
Additional Resources
- RE-AIM Framework"The goal of RE-AIM is to encourage program planners, evaluators, readers of journal articles, funders, and policy-makers to pay more attention to essential program elements including external validity that can improve the sustainable adoption and implementation of effective, generalizable, evidence-based interventions."
- USDA Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review (NESR)Previously known as the Nutrition Evidence Library (NEL)
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025Latest dietary guidelines for Americans from USDA
Accessing Age Group Filters in PubMed
Accessing Age Group Filters in PubMed
- Conduct a search in PubMed.
- On the Results page, look on the left where the default filters are displayed.
- At the bottom of the list, click the button “Additional filters.”
- Click on “Age” and then click in the boxes for all the age categories you want to have available.
- Click the “Show” button.
- You should now have a filter section called “Age.”
- Click on the one (or ones) you want to limit your search to studies identified as having that age group as subjects.
You can go through a similar process for other filters available.
