Research Guides: Public Health: Getting Started

Welcome to the Public Health research guide! Use this guide as a starting point for your research in this subject area.

Highlighted Resources

CQ Researcher
Includes Health topical articles with Reports for each area. Additionally, you will find helpful resources such as an Issue Tracker, Bibliography, Next Steps and Chronology.
In-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Our reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted
and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con
feature, plus resources for additional research.
ProQuest Research Tools
Multidisciplinary collection of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and more. Search includes all of the Davidson College Library ProQuest databases.
Public Health, Global Origins of Modern Health Policy and Management, 1957-1995
1957-1995, from the introduction of antibiotics through the AIDS crisis. This collection of primary source documents was curated by a U.S. government organization that was part of the CIA monitoring publications from around the world and translating the material into English.
PubMed
Comprehensive resource containing citations (not full articles) to biomedical articles and life science journals.

Using the library provided link will provide access to articles within Davidson College subscriptions for Davidson College students/staff/faculty.
Web of Science
An interdisciplinary resource with journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Access is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.

Find reference books & e-books

Search the Davidson Library Catalog to find additional reference books.

Gale eBooks Reference Library
Encyclopedias and reference sources that cover a variety of topics.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics by Anna C. Mastroianni (Editor); Jeffrey P. Kahn (Editor); Nancy E. Kass (Editor)
ISBN: 9780190245191
Publication Date: 2019-08-20
This Oxford Handbook provides a comprehensive review of the current state of public health ethics. Taking account of the wide range of topics under the umbrella of public health and the ethical issues raised by them, this volume is organized into fifteen sections.