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Welcome to the National University Library's research guide for COH 613 - Public Health Informatics. Here, you'll find relevant journal articles, books, websites, and more to help you complete your project!
While this guide will provide you with support to complete the research aspects of your assignment, please address all questions regarding content, formatting, and grading to your instructor.
For more information and library resources, see the Community Health Subject Guide.
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Academic research is a multi-step process that doesn't always move in a straight line. You may find yourself returning to previous stages as you refine your topic.
Think broadly about your research topic, then narrow and refine the focus as you gather background and additional information.
Use the databases linked below to find reference sources like encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks to get a general overview of your topic. Use this information to help narrow and focus your research topic.
Content: A reference database useful for accessing scholarly definitions, background and contextual information. Subjects covered include art, biography, business, economics, education, history, literature, music, psychology, religion, and science and technology.
Purpose: An excellent starting point for brainstorming a research topic and building out your initial search terms list.
Special Features: Mindmap; related articles; image search
Content: A collection of reference e-books published by Oxford University Press
Purpose: A collection of reference e-books
Content: Reference sources, primarily books but also videos and business cases.
Purpose: Use for finding reference sources like encyclopedias and handbooks that provide contextual or explanatory material.
Special Features: Includes Sage Navigator
Content: Books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos on research methods and design.
Purpose: Use to learn more about qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research.
Special Features: Includes a methods map, project planner, and "which stats" test
Created and hosted by CQ Press, the CQ Press Electronic Library (CQEL) is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
Public Policy Institute of California
Independent, objective, nonpartisan research on major social, economic, and political issues.
National Conference of State Legislatures State Websites Directory
Connect to individual state legislatures for bills being considered in other states.
Government Resources
Congress.gov
Provides legislative information from the Library of Congress. Here you'll find summaries and status of bills before Congress. You can also find the text and summaries of proposed legislation, as well the actions already taken on the policy.
GovTrack.us
An independent website that makes it easy to look for bills before the current Congress.
Think tanks can be a great resource for research and statistics on a variety of topics, but think tanks are advocacy oriented. That a think tank refers to itself as non-partisan means that it has no formal connection to a political party, not that it doesn’t have an ideological orientation that may be more consistent with a given political party.
Policy Archive
Policy Archive is a good source for finding materials from various think tanks, including many of the ones mentioned here.
FAIR
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting categorizes the political leanings of 25 leading think tanks, and analyzes who is the most influential.
Newspapers can be helpful sources of current information about new policies. Editorials and the Op-Ed pages are particularly good places to look, because they are spaces in which people write about problems and how they might be solved.
Content: Cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international, and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
Purpose: Provides a wide-range of coverage of newspapers and other news organizations for a broader view of current events.
Content: Scholarly journals, e-books, videos and more.
Purpose: A key multidisciplinary database for most topics. It is one of the library’s main search engines and the most comprehensive single search.
Note: Certain library databases and publisher content are not searchable in NavigatorSearch, and individual databases may need to be searched to retrieve information due to unique content. NavigatorSearch can be found at https://resources.nu.edu.
Once you have identified a specific organization that works on your issue, you will have to go that organization's website and do some digging. Good places to look will be links to press releases about specific legislation that the organization supports.
Remember that these press releases are NOT policies. You will need the actual text of the actual policy. After reading a press release and identifying a current piece of legislation, you will have to go to the website of the governmental body that is considering this legislation.
Support your argument with statistics. Use FedStats or Statistical Abstracts of the United States to find raw statistics and make your own graphs or charts to show trends.
Look in newspapers, AP Images, or other resources to find graphs and charts created by others.
For more Public Health Resources in Statistics & Epidemiology, please visit our Community Health Guide.
Content: Scholarly journals, e-books, videos and more.
Purpose: A key multidisciplinary database for most topics. It is one of the library’s main search engines and the most comprehensive single search.
Note: Certain library databases and publisher content are not searchable in NavigatorSearch, and individual databases may need to be searched to retrieve information due to unique content. NavigatorSearch can be found at https://resources.nu.edu.
Content: Database of intervention focused systematic reviews.
Purpose: Learn the effectiveness of interventions proven through evidence-based research.
Special Features: Includes MESH and PICO search functionality.
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This link opens in a new windowContent: A comprehensive medical information resource providing full-text journal content, reference ebooks, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.
Purpose: Provides content for learning and researching biomedical science and related subject areas.
Special Features: Includes instructional multimedia content to help students connect theory to practice. AI research assistant on the full text page with key takeaways.
Managing Infodemics in the 21st Century by 
The Health Information Workforce by 
Impact of Infodemic on Organizational Performance by
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Content: Scholarly journals, e-books, videos and more.
Purpose: A key multidisciplinary database for most topics. It is one of the library’s main search engines and the most comprehensive single search.
Note: Certain library databases and publisher content are not searchable in NavigatorSearch, and individual databases may need to be searched to retrieve information due to unique content. NavigatorSearch can be found at https://resources.nu.edu.
