Subject Librarian - Anthropology
Monique Oldfield
Contact:
Research consultation available by appointment.
134 Purdy/Kresge Library
313-577-5037 (phone)
313-577-3436 (FAX)
134 Purdy/Kresge Library
313-577-5037 (phone)
313-577-3436 (FAX)
Welcome to Global Heath
This library guide is to support you in finding country studies and articles for your Global Health course assignments.
World Organizations
- The World Heath OrganizationWorldwide data and health topics
- The United NationsWorldwide examination of issues on a variety of conditions
Country Information
- The World Fact BookA U.S. government resource providing overviews and country studies.
- The World Health Organization: WHO CountriesProvides health data by country
- UNICEF: Data by Topic and CountryCountry profiles and latest indicators on topics for women and children
Search for Articles in a Health Sciences Database
- PubMed@Wayne This link opens in a new windowPubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)--Overview. NLM's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases --Home page.
- CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new windowCINAHL Complete is a comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index with no embargo. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowThis database is an online version of the ISI indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index from 1975-. A search can be limited to one index (i.e. Science Citation Index OR Social Science Citation Index).
Anthropology Databases
- Anthropological Literature This link opens in a new windowAnthropological Literature is a bibliographic index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly, Anthropological Literature indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages from the 19th century to the present.
- AnthroSource This link opens in a new windowAnthroSource is an online portal serving the research, teaching and practicing needs of anthropologists. An online service of the American Anthropological Association, AnthroSource offers access to more than 100 years of anthropological knowledge.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1963 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.