Research Guides: Health Communication: Health Communication Resources

Welcome to this research guide on health communication. This guide is an introduction to some of our resources on health communication. For more in-depth research, contact us and a librarian can help you with your research.

Searching Tips

As you search in databases, book catalogs, and on the web, always think about the words you are using in your search and see if you can use other words that mean similar things. For example:

Health and Communication

In addition to using "health" try other words like "doctors" "nurses" "physicians" "patients" "hospitals" "medical personnel" etc.

In addition to using "communication" try words like "discourse" or "talk" or "conversation" etc.

Scholarly journals, magazines, and news sources

Communication Source
Communication Source is the premier source for finding articles in the field of communication and related fields

Communication Source features full text for more than 800 titles, including over 600 active full-text titles.

Indexing and abstracting is included for more than 1000 Core titles. Also featured is backfile coverage of top titles in Communication, reaching deep into the 20th century. Content is derived from academic journals, conference papers, conference proceedings, trade publications, magazines and periodicals. Content development for Communication Source is guided by expert advisors who are academic librarians and Communication bibliographers from leading international institutions.

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CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo.

The database also provides full text for more than 275 books/monographs. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937, CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

CINAHL Complete also provides indexing for more than 5,300 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 3.7 million records dating back to 1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,550 journals are also included.

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PubMed
PubMed provides access to more than 23 million bibliographic citations primarily drawn from MEDLINE, as well as publisher-supplied citations, in-process and "ahead-of-print" citations.

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PubMed Instructional Videos
PubMed Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
PsycINFO
PsycINFO has a large amount of communication articles.

Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

On Campus Link
Google Scholar
Articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Books

Ignacio: Library Catalog
The library catalog lets you search across the holdings of Gleeson Library and Zief Law Library, including books, videos, and other materials. Alumni and visitor access.
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Search across the more than 60 libraries in California and Nevada, and request available books to be delivered to Gleeson Library in 2-4 business days.

Overviews and background information

Encyclopedias can be good sources for basic background information

Encyclopedia of Health Communication by Teresa L. Thompson
Publication Date: 2014

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Selected ebooks

This is a small sample of some of the ebooks available in the library catalog

The Art of Communication in Nursing and Health Care by Theresa Raphael-Grimm
Publication Date: 2014
The Handbook of Global Health Communication by Rafael Obregon (Editor); Silvio Waisbord (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012
Evidence-Based Health Communication by Brian Brown; Ronald Carter; Paul Crawford
Publication Date: 2006
Health Communication by Renata Schiavo
Publication Date: 2013