Gleeson Library: 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.

On-Campus Link
CINAHL Ultimate
CINAHL Ultimate is the definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for the most used journals in the CINAHL index. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.
Tutorials:
Basic Searching
Advanced Searching

On-Campus Link
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.
Tutorials

PubMed Instructional Videos
PubMed Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
APA 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. APA 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. Click "more" below to customize Google Scholar to access USF library journal subscriptions.
Customize Google Scholar to provide full-text links to journal articles available through Gleeson Library subscriptions:

If you are on campus, Google Scholar should recognize you as a USF user and link you to the full text.

If you are working from an off-campus location, you will need to manually activate USF's Full Text Finder in Google Scholar Library Links:

1. Go to the Google Scholar search page.
2. In the upper left corner of the page, press the button made of three horizontal lines to open a new menu.
3. Click "Settings."
4. Select "Library links" and search for "University of San Francisco."
5. Check "University of San Francisco – Full Text Finder" in the search results, then click Save.

When you search Google Scholar, you should now see "Full Text Finder" links to the right of your results. Click on these links to check if USF has access to your article.

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.
Link+
Search across more than 60 libraries in California and Nevada, and request available books to be delivered to Gleeson Library in 2-4 business days. LINK+ was cancelled at the end of spring semester 2024. More information.

Overviews and background information

Encyclopedias can be good sources for basic background information

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

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

Health Communication

Searching Tips

Scholarly journals, magazines, and news sources

Books

Overviews and background information

Selected ebooks

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