What is Public Health?
What is in this subject guide?
Public health encompasses many disciplines ranging from economics to epidemiology to psychology. Although there are some databases specifically focused on public health issues, sometimes you will need to look for items in several places. In this guide, you will find links to databases, journals, books, websites, data and statistics, and other resources related to the various domains of public health. The Fairbanks School of Public Health has programs in:
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology
- Health Administration
- Health Policy & Management
- Health Systems Management
- Public Health
Other fields relevant to public health include:
- Vital Statistics & Surveillance
- Environmental Health & Toxicology
- Occupational Health
- Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Health Promotion & Education
- Community Health
- Maternal & Child Health
- Public Health Nursing
- Disaster Control & Emergency Services
- Communicable Diseases
- HIV/AIDS
- Nutrition
- Chronic Diseases & Conditions
- Public Health Laboratory Sciences
- Public Health Informatics
- Global Health
Check out the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention list of 10 Essential Public Health Services.
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Start Here! How to use this guide
This guide covers the following topics and will help you find resources at both the Medical Library and University Library.
- Searching Tips & Tricks - practical strategies to search for quality, peer-reviewed information
- Evaluating Sources - resources & strategies to figure out whether information is reliable, relevant, and authoritative
- Writing & Citing - tools and tips to make citing your sources easier
- Journal Articles - resources and strategies for finding journal articles
- Books - resources and strategies for finding print and electronic books
- News Sources - resources and strategies for finding information from newspapers, magazines, etc.
- Web Sources - resources and strategies for finding information that doesn't fit into other categories, like grey literature, blogs, white papers, reports, etc.
- Data & Statistics - resources and strategies for finding public or open access data
Public Health Research - Getting Oriented
- CDC Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015The new Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006–2015 (also referred to as the Research Guide) will serve as a critical resource for research areas that should be addressed during the next decade by CDC and its partners in response to current and future public health needs and events. By health protection research, we mean research that supports health promotion, prevention of injury, disability, and diseases, and preparedness activities.
- CDC Theory at a glance: A guide for health promotion practiceThis monograph describes influential theories of health-related behaviors, processes of shaping behavior, and the effects of community and environmental factors on behavior. It complements existing resources that offer tools, techniques, and model programs for practice, such as Making Health Communication Programs Work: A Planner’s Guide, and the Web portal, Cancer Control PLANET (Plan, Link, Act, Network with Evidence-based Tools). Theory at a Glance makes health behavior theory accessible and provides tools to solve problems and assess the effectiveness of health promotion programs.
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