Community health sciences subject guide

Community health sciences subject guide

Reserve collection
Check Reserves course or by professor in the Brock Library Catalogue.

Searching the Brock Library Catalogue
Select the subject and/or the keyWORDS search options in the Brock Library Catalogue.Refer to the Library of Congress volumes in order to identify appropriate headings and related terms for a subject search. For a keyWORDS search, enter word(s) from the title, subject, corporate author or notes. If your search retrieves too many items, use the limit option. For further assistance, please inquire at the Reference Information Desk.

Indexes and abstracts (to find journal articles)

Canadian periodical index	REF PER A1 3 C344
Nutrition abstracts and reviews. Series A: human and experimental	REF PER RM 214 N82
Social sciences index	REF PER H1 S65

Select Databases on the Brock Library Home Page to access the following:

CBCA
CINAHL PlusText
Elsevier Science
ERIC
Lexis-Nexis (Genmed and Medline)
PsycINFO
Sociological Abstracts
Sport Discus
Medline

Dictionaries and directories (a selective list only)

Alternative health care: the Canadian directory	REF R 733 H37 1996
Cambridge dictionary of statistics in the medical sciences	REF RA 407 E94 1996
Dictionary of epidemiology	REF RA 651 D53 1995
Directory of internet sources for health professionals	REF R 859.7 D36 G75 1999
Food and fitness: a dictionary of diet and exercise	REF RA 784 K397 1997
Nutrition and diet therapy reference dictionary	REF RM 217 L34 1995
Stedman's medical dictionary	REF R 121 S8 1995

Handbooks (a selective list only)

Alternative advisor: the complete guide to natural therapies and alternative treatments	REF R 733 A454 1997
Canadian healthcare sourcebook	REF RA 395 C3 C67 1995/1996
Compendium of pharmaceuticals and specialties	REF RS 141.23 C6 1997
Complete Canadian health guide	REF RC81 E63 1993
New guide to prescription and over-the-counter drugs	REF RM 301.12 C36 1996
Practical approach to emergency medicine	REF RC 86.8 P73 1994

Encyclopedias (a selective list only)

Cambridge encyclopedia of human growth and development	REF QP 84 C26 1998
Encyclopedia of aging	REF HQ 1061 E53 1995
Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology	REF GN 307 E52 1996
Encyclopedia of gerontology	REF RC 952.5 E58 1996
Encyclopedia of human biology	REF QP 11 E53 1991
Encyclopedia of relationships across the lifespan	REF HM 132 T83 1996
Health and illness: a cross-cultural encyclopedia	REF R 733 L477 1997

Internet resources

Select subject resources -->physical eduction and recreation from the Brock Library Home Page http://www.brocku.ca/library/research/health/health.htm