Subject
Research Guides
Community Health
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of chemistry & biochemistry topics.
Background Information Sources
Available in the library's reference area:
| Economic Report of the President: see section on Health Care | REF HC106.5 .A272 (Annual) |
| Encyclopedia of Sociology (5 vols.): see vol. 2 under "Health" | REF HM425 .E5 2000 |
| Portrait of Health in the United States | REF RA407.3 .P67 2001 |
| Health, United States | REF RA407.3 .U57 (Annual) |
| Common Health for the Commonwealth: Massachusetts | REF RA407.4 .M37 2002 |
| Encyclopedia of Public Health (4 volumes) | REF RA423 .E53 2002 |
| Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys: see Healthcare | bottom shelf near HG 4501 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse the RA (Public Health), HM (Sociology), and HV (Social Welfare) call number ranges.
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
- CQ Researcher: reports on current, hot, and controversial topics, such as health insurance.
- LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow links for Health Care and Community Health.
- State Health Facts
http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi
a Kaiser Family Foundation site with links to health data for each state - Healthy People
http://www.healthypeople.gov/
initiative to promote community health by the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services - MassCHIP
http://masschip.state.ma.us/
Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile; provides local health data - Greater Boston Center for Healthy Communities
http://www.masspreventioncenter.org/
community health resources and health status reports for Boston-area communities - Massachusetts Medical Society
http://www.massmed.org/
Public Health section includes links to community health resources and organizations - Mass. General Community Health
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/library/arch/resources.asp
community health resources organized by topic area from Mass. General Hospital