Subject Guides in the Health and Life Sciences

Resources in Public Health

This guide is designed to serve as a starting point for locating information on any topic in the field of public health. Print items listed with call numbers are located in the core reference collection of the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library unless otherwise indicated. Please ask at the reference desk if you are unable to find any material.

Finding Journal Articles

• Business Source Premier
• CINAHL Plus (for help searching, see Finding Articles in Nursing Using CINAHL Plus)
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
• Global Health
• PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
• PsycINFO (for help searching see Finding Articles in Psychology Using PsycINFO)
• PubMed (for help searching, see Finding Articles Using PubMed)
• TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)
• Web of Science(for help searching, see Finding Science and Social Science Articles Using Web of Science)
• Print Indexes
  • Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases
    Call number: W1 AB996 (Reference Stacks)
  • Excerpta Medica. Section 17. Public Health, Social Medicine, and Epidemiology
    Call number: W1 EX309 (Reference Stacks)

Finding Specialized Information

• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Handbooks
• Resources in Vital and Health Statistics

Web Resources in Public Health