Population Health Sciences
Find Research
On this page, you'll find links to databases, journals, and books related to population health. If you run into an article or book that is not available through Lane Library or Stanford University Libraries, this page also contains information about using Lane's document delivery service DocXpress.
Databases
Population health-related work can be found in a wide variety of databases. The below list is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather to help you get started if you are asking a new research question or starting a new project.
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health)Provides access to nursing and allied health literature including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health, and medicine.
- Cochrane LibraryA collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making including systematic reviews conducted by the Conchrane Review Groups and randomized controlled trials.
- EmbaseBiomedical and pharmacological abstracting and indexing database of published literature that contains over 32 million records from over 8,500 currently published journals (1947-present) and is noteworthy for its extensive coverage of the international pharmaceutical and alternative/complementary medicine literature.
- Natural Medicines Comprehensive DatabaseKey resource for information on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies. Excellent source for checking interactions.
- PubMed
Provides fulltext access to Lane's resources. Contains coverage of over 5000 journals and more than 35.5 million citations for biomedical articles, including, but not limited to, clinical trials, systematic reviews, case reports, and clinical practice guidelines.
- ScopusLargest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature featuring scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
- Web of ScienceMultidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences. Features systematic reviews that summarize the effects of interventions and makes a determination whether the intervention is efficacious or not.
Books and Journals
This is a selection of books available through Lane Library that give an introduction to population health-related topics. This list is not meant to be exhaustive, but if you would like to see a particular title added (or removed) please contact your liaison librarian.
Global Population Health and Well-Being in the 21st Century by ISBN: 9780826127679Publication Date: 2015-08-01
Population Health Management in Health Care Organizations by ISBN: 9781784411978Publication Date: 2014-10-17
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of journals that publish work on population health-related topics, but if you would like to see a particular title added (or removed) please contact your liaison librarian.
DocXpress Document Delivery Service
Use Lane Library's DocXpress Document Delivery Service to request materials not available at Stanford or unavailable in a digital format, including:
- Journal articles (PDF copies)
- Book chapters (PDF copies)
- Patents (PDF copies)
- Books from other libraries beyond Stanford (physical books)
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