Guides: Global Health: Global Health Home

In This Guide

You'll find:

Resources to help guide you through the Global Health program
Databases and selected journals in Global Health
A wide selection of online sources related to diff concentrations for Global Health
Additional research tools
Help with citations

General Research Sources

Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Provides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects. Use the lower "Search Cambridge Histories" search box to find Luther-held content.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Indexes the professional literature of nursing and allied health disciplines. Some full text access. Also includes abstracts for relevant materials from allied health disciplines, including health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health. Provides references to books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments. Access limited 4 simultaneous users.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
An online collection of over 600 full-text reference works, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and more.
EBSCO Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
Collection of 15,000 ebooks across a variety of subjects and fields.
Encyclopaedia Britannica This link opens in a new window
Over 72,000 articles from the encyclopedia and Britannica Book of the Year. Over 10,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, flags and more. Includes Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary with over 75,000 definitions and pronunciation guides. Continuously revised.
Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 3,000 reference works, covering all disciplines.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,000 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
This online source provides access to subject and language reference works from Oxford University Press. In addition to text, access is provided to maps and illustrations, timelines, web sites, and bibliographies.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly articles in biomedicine, health, dentistry, nursing, and other life sciences. Includes MEDLINE plus additional citations, some full-text. Coverage: 1966 – present.

Health Studies Web Resources

World Health Organization
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The Consortium of Universities for Global Health
[CUGH] Organization based in Washington DC, aims to provide tools for job opportunities, research, education, and the improvement of global health.
Health Sciences Online
[Help Serve Others] A comprehensive collection of easily-accessible, quality information and full text materials in the health sciences.
Healthy People 2020
Hesperian Health Guides
A nonprofit health information and health education source with a collection of translated material available in over 85 languages.