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Health Matters: Health Innovation and Communication

PWR 1KSB - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Savelson, K.
Last Updated: 14-Jan-2013

A guide to resources for PWR 1KSB: Health Matters: Health Innovation and Communication. The premise of the course is that "health" needs to be defined and studied in context  What is health? Is this a medical question, or a cultural, political, or ethical question? While we cannot universally define "health," it's now a legal issue as well.

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Background/Reference Sources

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

3rd ed. New York : Macmillan Reference USA : Thomson/Gale, c2004.
Tanner » Reference (Non-circulating) » QH332 .E52 2004 V.1
Also a searchable digital encyclopedia
2nd ed. Ithaca, N.Y. : New Strategist, c2007.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » RA445 .A442 2007
2nd ed. Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2003.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » RA395 .A3 R685 2003
New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2004.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » RA418 .E354 2004 V.1
Oxford ; Seattle : Radcliffe Pub., c2005.
Green » Stacks » RA441.5 .M33 2005
Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1995.
Business » Check Business Library catalog for status » RC81 .C725 1995
This work is a collection of almost 200 consumer health publications produced by the US government. The texts are replicated in full and cover a wide variety of topics that include: AIDS; allergies; cancer; contraception; genetic diseases; and women's health.

Databases

Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for Articles on particular perspectives on Health

add ("choose databases"): America: History and Life, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Film and TV Literature Index, MLA (Literature)
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Click on the link at the top "Social Science Databases". you can search all, or select one or more: AltPress Watch, Gender Watch, Ethnic NewsWatch, Sociological Abstracts, Psycinfo, PAIS (public policy).
[New York] : Elsevier, 2004-
a cross-section of scientific and social science - try, for example, searching: health policy and nutrition

Suggested E-Journals

When you search a particular journal, you don't need to use as many keywords in your search. You already know the focused perspective of the journal by its description.

Sample Books of Interest

2nd ed. Washington, D.C. : Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, c2003.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2007.
Green » Stacks » RA563 .M56 E45 2007
Maidenhead, Berkshire : Open University Press, 2005.
Green » Stacks » RA395 .A84 C65 2005
Washington, DC : World Bank ; Geneva : World Health Organization : International Labour Office, 2004.