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Websites for Organizations    Journals   

                      Community Health Topics  (click chapter for topic)     

 

 Organizations and related resources

American Academy of Health Behavior   http://www.aahb.org

American Academy of Kinetics & Physical Education   http://www.aakpe.org/

American Association for Health Education   www.aahperd.org

American Cancer Society   www.cancer.org

American College of Epidemiology  http://acepidemiology.org

American Evaluation Association   http://www.eval.org     

American Heart Association   http://www.americanheart.org     

American Psychological Association  http://www.apa.org            

American Public Health Association  http://www.apha.org/

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene  http://www.astmh.org

Asociacion de Educacion para la Salud (Spain): www.adeps.org

Association of Schools of Public Health  http://www.asph.org/

Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine  www.atpm.org

 Australia Department of Health  http://www.health.gov.au/                      

Bio-Med Central (BMC) International Health and Human Rights  BioMed Central is an independent publishing house that provides free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.  The International Health and Human Rights division publishes original research articles in health care in developing and transitional countries, and all issues relating to health and human rights.

Biosciences resources  http://golgi.harvard.edu/htbin/biopages

California HealthLine (free daily health news, but must register first)  http://news.chcf.org/

Center for the Advancement of Health http://www.cfah.org

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US Dept of Health & Human Services)  http://www.cdc.gov

Children, youth and family resources  http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/

Combined Health Education Database  http://chid.nih.gov/

Community Preventive Services  http://web.health.gov/communityguide/

Community of Science (experts, Medline, funded research, funding opportunities)  http://www.cos.com/

Data resources  http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/overview/datacenter/popdemo/datamine.htm

Epidemiologic Data Resource  http://cedr.lbl.gov/index.html

Epidemiology resources  http://chanane.ucsf.edu/epidem/epidem.html

ERIC searches on educational research, e.g., http://www.ericfacility.net/extra/index.html

Food and Nutrition Information Center  http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/

Global Health Council  www.globalhealth.org

Google/Scholar  This Google search engine can be searched for peer-reviewed literature.

Google/ UncleSam  This Google search engine is for analytic reports, Congressional testimony, and other documents produced by the federal or state governments.

Government Printing Office Access  The US Government Printing Office (GPO) disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.  Links to other governmental sites or databases as well as direct database of current materials from Congress or the Supreme Court are cataloged alphabetically or by branch.

Health Canada  http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca

Health education professional resources  http://www.nyu.edu/education/hepr/

Health information database  http://chid.nih.gov/

Health A to Z search engine  http://www.healthatoz.com/

Health promotion journals  http://www.ki.se/phs/hprin/hprin_journals.html

Health science journals  http://www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html

Healthy People 2010 Objectives  http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/hp2000/

Homelessness Research virtual library, IHPR, UBC  http://www.hvl.ihpr.ubc.ca/

Index Medicus (journal abbreviations)  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html

Institute of Medicine  http://www2.nas.edu/iom/

International health resources  http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/GHNet/GHKR.html

International Union for Health Promotion and Education, Paris  www.iuhpe.org

Kaiser Family Foundation Weekly and Daily Health Policy Reports
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/recent/healthpolicy. Click here to search archives

LEXIS-NEXIS  Lexis-Nexis is a searchable database of news stories, legal briefs and citations, public records and business information in online, print of CD-ROM formats.  Use of Lexis-Nexis database requires a paid subscription.

Library of Congress  The Library of Congress (LOC) serves as the national library of the United States government.  The Library houses all documents and legislation released in the U.S. Congress.  Online, the LOC provides abstracts of its holdings.

Medical subject headings (MeSH standard keywords)  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html

MedWeb (health sciences resources)  http://www.gen.emory.edu/MEDWEB/keyword.html

Melvyl (Medline, journal & book databases)  http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu/

Men's health resources  http://www.vix.com/pub/men/health/health.html

Minority health resources  http://www.minority.unc.edu/

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

Newspaper links (>3,600 online newspapers)  http://www.newslink.org/news.html

National Association of School-Based Health  http://www.nasbhc.org

National Commission on Health Education Credentialing: www.nchec.org

National Library of Medicine (Medline, MeSH, PubMed)  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Nutrition resources  http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/

Oxford University Press http://oup-usa.org

Physical activity and health resources http://www-eval.srv.cis.pitt.edu/~pahnet/pahnet_fit.html

Population Index on the Web  Population Index contains an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.  This website provides a searchable and browsable database of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000

PubMed  A free service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for a wide range of biomedical and health policy articles from the 1950's to the present.  Users can search for citations in MEDLINE, which contains abstracts of most articles and links to sites providing full text of many articles.

Public health resources  http://www.hlth.qut.edu.au/ph/phlinks
http://www.uni-ulm.de/public_health/vl/mirror/www.ldb.org/vl/index.htm

Public Health Shareware  http://www.jhsph.edu/People/Org/DeltaOmega/software/

Science.gov. Science.gov is a search engine of selected research articles, special reports, and databases produced by the federal government.  Through this site, visitors can search for information across a broad array of federal agencies and government divisions.

Society for Public Health Education  http://www.sophe.org/

Statistics resources  http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html

Tobacco control resources  http://www.autonomy.com/smoke.htm

Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals
http://www.ama-assn.org/public/journals/jama/sc6336.htm#electronic

US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  http://www.ahrq.gov

US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/atsdrhome.html

US Census Bureau  http://www.census.gov/

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  http://www.cdc.gov/

US Dept of Health and Human Services  http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

US Food and Drug Administration  http://www.fda.gov/

US Health Care Financing Administration (Medicare, Medicaid)  http://www.hcfa.gov/

US Minority Health Resource Center  http://www.omhrc.gov/

US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences  http://www.niehs.nih.gov/home.html

US National Center for Health Statistics  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs

US National Institutes of Health (NIH)  http://www.nih.gov

US NIH guide for grants & contracts (funding opportunities)  http://www.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html

US Office on Smoking and Health  http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco

US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration  http://www.samhsa.gov/

Women's health resources  http://www.nytimes.com/specials/women/whome/resources.html

World Health Organization  http://www.who.int/

 Journals

The web pages for the journals listed below provide varying levels of online access. Some are limited to resources such as “Instructions for Authors”, but most are highly accessible with abstracts and some with access to full-text articles.  Most of the journals' websites listed archive past issues with a “Table of Contents” section. 

Some of the addresses listed will take you to the respective publisher homepage.  Usually, you can then access the journal under a “Publications/Journals” section.  If you cannot access the journal through the address listed, try entering an address with just the www followed by the name and the .com or .org part of the URL.

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Addiction: http://www.carfax.co.uk/add-ad.htm or http://alidoro.catchword.com/vl=10950634/cl=6/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/carfax/13600443/contp1.htm

Academic Medicine:   http://www.academicmedicine.org/ or http://www.aamc.org/findinfo/aamcpubs/acadmed/start.htm

Accident Analysis and Prevention:  http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=336&Precis=DESC

ACSM Health & Fitness Journal:  www.wwilkins.com/esources/journdex/FIT/index.html

Addictive Behaviors: http://www.elsevier.com

Adolescence

Adolescent Health

African Studies: http://alidoro.catchword.com/vl=10950634/cl=6/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/carfax/00020184/contp1.htm

Age & Ageing: www.ageing.oupjournals.org

Ageing International: http://alidoro.catchword.com/vl=10950634/cl=6/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/tranpub/01635158/contp1.htm

Aging & Mental Health: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CARFAX/13607863.HTM or http://www.carfax.co.uk/amh-ad.htm

AIDS and Behavior: http://www.plenum.com/journals_list.cgi?434

AIDS Care: http://www.carfax.co.uk/aic-ad.htm

Alcohol & Alcoholism: http://www.alcalc.oupjournals.org

Amer J Addictions: http://alidoro.catchword.com/vl=10950634/cl=6/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/tandf/10550496/contp1.htm

Amer J Clinical Nutrition:  http://www.ajcn.org/content/vol81/issue2/

Amer J of Drug & Alcohol Abuse: http://www.dekker.com/e/p.pl/0095-2990/024/001/007/abs

Amer J Epidemiology: www.aje.oupjournals.org or http://www.jhsph.edu/Publications/JEPI 

Amer J Health Behavior (formerly Health Values): http://www.ajhb.org

Amer J Health Promotion: http://www.healthpromotionjournal.com

Amer J Health Studies (formerly Journal of Wellness Perspectives)

Amer J Med: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ajmselect

Amer J Nursing: www.ajn.org

Amer J Preventive Med  http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ajpmonline

Amer J Public Health: http://www.ajph.org/

Amer J Sports Medicine:  http://www.sportsmed.org/j/j.htm

Amer School Board Journal: http://www.asbj.com

Annals of Behavioral Medicine: http://psychweb.syr.edu/sbm/abm.html

Annals of Epidemiology: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/annepidem

Ann Rev Anthropology: http://anthro.AnnualReviews.org

Ann Rev Nutrition: http://nutr.AnnualReviews.org

Ann Rev Political Sci: http://polisci.AnnualReviews.org

Annual Review of Psychology: http://psych.AnnualReviews.org

Ann Rev Sociology: http://soc.AnnualReviews.org

Ann Rev Public Health: http://publhealth.annualreviews.org/

Archives Pediatrics and Adolescent Med: http://www.ama-assn.org/public/journals/ajdc/past_iss.htm

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health: http://www.pha.org.au/journal/frame_journal.html

B and beyond: Click here and type the name of the journal or its standard abbreviation, or search alphabetically below.

Behavioral Medicine: http://www.heldref.org

British Medical Journal: www.bmj.com

Canadian Journal of Aging: www.cmpa.ca/canjourag.html

Canadian Journal of Public Health: http://www.cpha.ca/Periodicals/Period.home.html 

Canadian Medical Association Journal: http://www.cma.ca/cmaj

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention: http://www.aacr.org/2000/2100/2130/2130.html

Child: Care, Health & Development: http://www.blackwell-science.com 

Child Development: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CD/home.html

Childhood Education: www.udel.edu/bateman/acei/cehp.htm

Chronic Diseases in Canada: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/main/lcdc/web/publicat/cdic/index.html

Counselor Education and Supervision: http://207.196.21.8/journals/cesinfo.htm  

Critical Public Health: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CARFAX/09581596.HTM

Culture, Health & Sexuality: A J for Research, Intervention and Care

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/TF/13691058.HTM

 

Developmental Psychology: http://www.apa.org/journals/dev.html

 

Education for Health: Change in Training & Practice: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CARFAX/13576283.HTM

Environmental Health Perspective: http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov

European Journal of Public Health: http://www3.oup.co.uk/eurpub

Evaluation and the Health Professions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/c001.html

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0024.html

 

Family and Community Health

 Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal (formerly Home Economics Journal)

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/usdetails/j0085.html

http://www.aafcs.org/pages/public/research.html

  Family Practice: http://www3.oup.co.uk/famprj

 

Health Affairs: http://www.projhope.org/HA

  Health: An Interdisciplinary J for the Social Study of Health, Illness & Med: http://www.sagepub.co.uk

Health Education and Behavior: http://www.sph.umich.edu/group/hbhe/heb

Health Education Research: Theory and Practice: http://www.oup.co.uk/healed or http://her.oupjournals.org

Health Policy and Planning: http://www3.oup.co.uk/heapo or http://heapol.oupjournals.org

Health Promotion: Global Perspectives: http://www.Healthpromotionjournal.com/publications/global.htm

Health Promotion International: http://www.oup.co.uk/heapro or http://heapro.oupjournals.org

Health Promotion Practice: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0309.html

Health Psychology: http://www.apa.org/journals/hea.html

Health, Risk & Society: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CARFAX/13698575.HTM

Human Communication Research: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/usdetails/j0185.html

International Electronic Journal of Health Education: http://131.230.221.136/iejhe

International Journal of Environmental Health Research: http://www.carfax.co.uk/ije-ad.htm

International Journal of Epidemiology: http://www3.oup.co.uk/ije/contents or http://ije.oupjournals.org

International Journal of Health Education (formerly Institute of Health Education )

International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health: http://www.plenum.com/journals_list.cgi?434

Internet Journal of Health Promotion: http://www.monash.edu.au/health/IJHP

Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling: http://www.counseling.org/journals/jaocinfo.htm

Journal of Adolescent Health: http://www.elsevier.nl:80/inca/publications/store/5/0/5/7/6/5

Journal of Adolescent Research: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/usdetails/j0153.html

Journal of Aging and Health: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0100.html

Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education: http://www.unomaha.edu/~healthed/JADE.html 

Journal of American College Health: http://www.heldref.org

Journal of the American Medical Association - JAMA: http://www.ama-assn.org/public/journals/jama/jamahome.htm

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: http://www.jamia.org

Journal of Black Studies: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/usdetails/j0020.html 

Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse:  

Journal of Community Health: http://www.plenum.com/title.cgi?1018

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology: http://www.apa.org/journals/ccp.html

Journal of Counseling and Development: http://www.counseling.org/journals/jcdinfo.htm

Journal of Counseling Psychology: http://www.apa.org/journals/cou.html 

Journal of Early Intervention: http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~jei 

Journal of Environmental Education: http://www.heldref.org

Journal of Environmental Health: http://www.neha.org/jehpreview.html

Journal of Environmental Science and Health: http://www.dekker.com/cgi-bin/webdbc/md/detail.htx?d_cat_id=1093-4529 

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health: http://www.bmjpg.com/data/ech.htm or http://www.jech.com or http://ije.oupjournals.org

Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences: http://www.aafcs.org/pages/public/journal.html

Journal of Family Issues: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/usdetails/j0179.html

Journal of Gender, Culture, and Health: http://www.plenum.com/journals_list.cgi?434

Journal of Health Communication: www.aed.org/JHealthCom

Journal of Health Education: http://www.aahperd.org/aahperd/publications-johe.html

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law: http://www.jhppl.org

Journal of Health Psychology: www.sagepub.co.uk

Journal of Health and Social Behavior: http://www.asanet.org/Pubs/pubs.htm#JHSB

Journal of Immigrant Health: http://www.plenum.com/journals_list.cgi?434

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy: http://www.aamft.org/resources/jmft_menu.htm

Journal of Mental Health: http://www.carfax.co.uk/jmh-ad.htm

Journal of the National Cancer Institute: http://jnci.oupjournals.org

Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs: http://jncimonographs.oupjournals.org

Journal of Nutrition: http://www.faseb.org/asns/journal/journal.html or http://nutrition.org/misc/about.shtml

Journal of Nutrition Education:

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: http://www.acoem.org/pubs/joem/joemgen.htm

Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance: http://www.aahperd.org/aahperd/publications-joperd.html 

Journal of Primary Prevention: http://www.plenum.com/title.cgi?1025

Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality

Journal of Public Health Medicine: http://www3.oup.co.uk/pubmed  

Journal of Public Health Policy: http://members.aol.com/jphpterris/jphp.htm

Journal of Research and Development in Education: http://www.coe.uga.edu/dean/research/docs1/journal.html 

Journal of Safety Research: http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/6/7/9/index.htt

Journal of School Health: http://www.ashaweb.org

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy: http://www.tandfdc.com/JNLS/SMT.htm 

Journal of Sex Education and Therapy

Journal of Sex Research: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/ssss/jsr.htm 

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology: http://www.humankinetics.com/infok/journals/jsep/intro.htm

http://www.humankinetics.com/Navigate/products/journals.cfm

Journal of Studies on Alcohol: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cas2/

Journal of Substance Abuse

Journal of the American Dietetic Association: http://www.eatright.org/journal/

Journal of American Medical Association: http://www.ama-\assn.org/public/journals/jama/jamahome.htm

Journal of Youth and Adolescence: http://www.plenum.com/title.cgi?2025

Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal: http://kais.mines.edu/~kais

Maternal and Child Health Journal: http://www.plenum.com/title.cgi?2105

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise: http://www.ms-se.com

The Milbank Quarterly: A Journal of Public Health and Health Care Policy: http://www.milbank.org/quarterly.html 

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr.html

New England Journal of Medicine: http://www.nejm.org 

Obesity Research: http://www.obesityresearch.org

Occupational and Environmental Medicine: http://oem.bmjjournals.com

Oxford English Dictionary: http://dictionary.oed.com

Patient Education and Counseling: www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/0/5/9/5/5

Pediatrics: http://www.pediatrics.org

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/usdetails/j0157.html 

Primary Prevention

Prevention Science (new in 2000): http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/prev

Professional Safety: http://www.asse.org/public.htm

Public Health: http://www.stockton-press.co.uk/ph

Qualitative Health Research: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0114.html

Quest: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport: http://www.aahperd.org/aahperd/publications-rqes.html

Social Science & Medicine: www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/3/1/5

Substance Abuse: http://www.plenum.com/journals_list.cgi?434

Substance Use and Misuse (formerly International Journal of Addictions): http://www.dekker.com/cgi-bin/webdbc/md/detail.htx?d_cat_id=1082-608

Teachers College Record: http://tcrecord.tc.columbia.edu

The Health Educator: Tobacco Control: http://tc.bmjjournals.com

Western Journal of Medicine: http://www.ewjm.com

Young Children: http://www.naeyc.org/yc/yc_index.htm

Youth and Society: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/usdetails/j0061.html