CUG Libraries - Subject Guides: Public Health

  Why use this resource?
Good way to learn how to use our most common database-search interface and get results on a broad range of topics.
  Brief description
This is a broad-ranging, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with lots of peer-reviewed journals. Content is mostly available as screen-readable PDFs.

  Why use this resource?
Find additional references to support your arguments from a practice-led viewpoint.
  Brief description
Alternative medicine index database targeted at practitioner and academic audiences, focused on European sources and including many sources not indexed elsewhere. Can be searched alongside other EBSCO databases.

  Why use this resource?
To identify additional articles on your topic (which we may or may not have direct access to) if you have struggled to find enough on the key subject databases.
  Brief description
ASSIA is a bibliographic database, with abstracts and citations of articles from over 650 sociology and psychology journals. Covers the applied social sciences and is particularly useful for social issues, social problems, health care, politics, economics, employment, gender issues, education and ethnicity. Can be searched alongside other ProQuest databases.

  Why use this resource?
Best way to access TV (and some radio) broadcast content from the last 15+ years.
  Brief description
This resource allows you to search and access recordings of content broadcast on over 65 free-to-air channels; you can also set up recordings of upcoming shows you are interested in.

  Why use this resource?
Good for specific examples of practice, as well as new applications of theory, relating to healthcare.
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CINAHL is an informative health literature database for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. It provides higher-level articles and case studies rather than entry-level information, but can be used to add specific examples to assignments. Due to the specialised metadata included, CINAHL is best searched on its own.

  Why use this resource?
Mix of accessible and more-academic sources in a straightforward interface.
  Brief description
Health information source which includes articles from journals, professional press and consumer magazines. Includes some short-form video content.

  Why use this resource?
Good for health and wellbeing information with academic underpinning.
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This database includes clinical and biomedical sources alongside consumer health articles and broader content on health administration. Can be searched alongside other ProQuest databases.

  Why use this resource?
Add medically-focused practice examples to your work.
  Brief description
US-focused medical source, incorporating life sciences journals, molecular biology databases and health and wellbeing practice guidance.Can be searched alongside other EBSCO databases.

  Why use this resource?
Will help add higher-level health and anatomy information to your assignments.
  Brief description
Offers complete information from leading nursing and health related publications. Designed to suit practitioners as well as those studying on Nursing and health-related courses. Can be searched alongside other ProQuest databases.

  Why use this resource?
To include psychological perspectives or look at research into psychological principles.
  Brief description
International database for psychology, including academic, research and practice literature in many languages. Cross-disciplinary in scope, including relevant materials from disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, and social sciences.

  Why use this resource?
Medically-focused evidence drawn from across the world.
  Brief description
Citation index of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may link to other databases we have access to, or may require a document supply request to get access.

  Why use this resource?
Add alternate perspectives into your work by drawing on the proceedings of various learned societies.
  Brief description
Broad-based journal collection spanning Social Sciences, Science, Technology, and Medicine, many of which come from institutions and societies. You can filter and search by discipline along with the other database-search features you’d expect.

  Why use this resource?
To find quality information to support work in STEM fields.
  Brief description
This is a major database for science, technology and medicine information. Alongside articles from more than 4,000 journals, there are also many books.