Resources for Health Education 650

Finding Books                    Finding Articles                        Web SItes                

The tool to use is a Carroll library's online catalog.

Exercises in Searching PioPac          

• What is your topic?   Nutrition education                     
• Think of terms related to the topic:   (diet  or nutrition) ( education or counseling or advice)
• Conduct a search in PioPac. Go directly to the Advanced Search.   

  Example 1:  nutrition and education       

  Example 2:  nutrition and (education or counsel** or advice)

Finding Articles: Using Indexes and Databases 

• From the Library homepage, choose the tab “Online Databases”
• Choose the link to “..list of electronic databases”
• In these resources you will find tools to search for articles, reports and other information contained in journals, magazines, and other sources.
• The best databases for this topic are: Academic Search Elite, Health Source Plus, Medline (PubMed or Ebsco), ERIC (the education database) and CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) 

Tips for searching an article database:

• State your topic
• Think of terms related to the topic
• Remember to read the abstract to determine if the result is on target and to evaluate relevance to the topic.

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Web Sites for Health Education 

• Medline Plus Health Information  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/  “Data on specific diseases as reported by states…(description from the website)
• In the Librarians’ Index to the Internet http://lii.org search “health education” from the advanced search (or search a topic: obesity, diabetes, nutrition)
• Health Finder http://www.healthfinder.gov/ healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies.  Since 1997, healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet.  healthfinder® links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,800 health-related organizations. (description from the website)
• Try Google’s Advanced search at http://www.google.com/  Limit your search by domain name!  gov – government; edu – higher education

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For Additional Help

Ask at the Reference Desk.  

Call the Carroll University Library Reference Desk at 262-650-4892.

Contact Librarian Susan Heffron.

For more information please contact the library.