Journals
- Health Communication Science Digest Monthly compilation of "recently published articles and reports with particular relevance for the public health communication community." Compiled by the CDC.
Health and Medical Databases
- PubMed This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of abstracts to the biomedical literature. Includes medicine, the allied health disciplines, and biomedical literature. Materials range from 1809 Onwards, with more recent decades better represented.
- CINAHL: Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature This link opens in a new window Covers journal publications from the nursing and allied health professions. While it primarily covers journal citations, it also includes book chapter abstracts, dissertations, and conference abstracts.
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window Provides access to articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations that cover the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work.
Suggested Keywords for Searching PubMed:
PubMed's specialized keywords are known as "Mesh Headings." These headings will help you hone in on the articles that you need. Here are the keywords we recommend for PubMed.
- "Health Communication" [Mesh]
- "Health Communication/methods" [Mesh]
Suggested Keywords for CINAHL & PsycInfo:
- Consumer Health information
- Health Promotion Methods
- Health Education Methods
- Communications Media
- Health Literacy
- Health Education
Communication Databases
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window CMMC indexes journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, logic, organizational communication and other closely related fields of study.
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