Global Health: Articles

Use the Library's subscription databases to locate journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.

Looking for a particular journal or magazine? Use our journal locator.

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Need research help and not sure where to turn? Get help from the library via email, chat, and online appointments or stop by one of our reference desks during open hours of operation. 

Want to contact your Nursing & Health Sciences Librarian or set up a virtual or F2F appointment with her? Email Debra Smith: smithkak@cod.edu

Not familiar with researching for professional or evidence-based health information specific to global health? Ask COD Library Reference Staff for help or take a look at these useful resources:

Database (and Library catalog) Advanced Search Tips

• Use the features of the database (print, navigation) before using your browser's back or print buttons
• For keyword searching, use the advanced search feature so that you can use multiple terms and set limits (date range, peer-reviewed, full text, etc)
• Remember that databases require you to spell correctly
• To limit your search results to journals with editorial boards (or some type of review process by health professionals) look under the “limit” section of the initial search page. Select the option to limit to peer reviewed (some databases also call them refereed publications). Refereed publications and peer reviewed are synonyms for board-reviewed or scholarly journals.
• Don’t forget to set publication date limits
• When creating your search strategy, take a moment to write down your key words and any synonyms (alternative words meaning the same thing) that might be used. Also think about how you connect your key words together.
  • put phrases in quotation marks to search for the words together. For example, "low and middle income countries"
  • Connect different concepts with the word AND indicating that you want both concepts to appear in each retrieved article.
  • Connect variations (different words could be used for the same thing) with OR indicating that at least one variation should occur in the articles retrieved.
  • Put parentheses around actions that you want to be done first (just like you may have done in an algebra class).
  • Here are some examples of synonyms and “nesting” (using parentheses):
  • (aged OR geriatric OR old* OR elderly)
  • ("global health" OR "world health")
  • Put the key concepts together like this example:
    (age" OR geriatric OR old* OR elderly) AND ("global health" OR "world health")
• capitalize connecting words (AND, OR) to let the database know that you are giving a command not just listing a word to be found
• Use an asterisk (*) to find all possible endings. For example, countr* finds country, countries

Sample search strategies involving global health concepts (copy/paste into CINAHL):

• (MH "Cultural Competence") AND "developing countries" 

• ( (MH "Developing Countries" OR "developing countr*") OR (MH "Low and Middle Income Countries" OR "low and middle income countr*") ) AND ecuador

• MH "Social Determinants of Health" 

• ( (healthcare AND united states) ) AND ( healthcare AND ((MH "Developing Countries" OR "developing countr*") OR (MH "Low and Middle Income Countries" OR "low and middle income countr*") ) ) AND compar* 

Look below for recommended article databases!

Curious about what global health journals are available via the COD Library? Browse this list from our Journal Locator!

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is the best place for you to begin searching for journal articles because:

• it is the only database that has health & medical specific subject headings. It also allows you to limit to patient age, articles published within the last 5 years, as well as type of article (CEU, research, case study)

• Use the Research in 10 Steps Using CINAHL handout to guide your searches

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