Research Guides: Public Health: Reference

Reference Databases

Credo Reference
Provides access to hundreds of reference resources covering every major subject.
Gale eBooks
Contains topic overview pages, subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference resources.

Encyclopedias

The Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health (2nd edition) by Brigham Narins (Editor)
Publication date: 2019
Topics include diseases and conditions, health and wellness efforts, nutrition, ethics and law related topics and statistics, sanitation issues, and everyday environmental effects.
Worldmark Global Health and Medicine Issues by K. Lee Lerner (Editor)
Publication date: 2016
Covers current health and medicine issues with global impact in the modern world and organizations and groups addressing these issues.
The Gale Encyclopedia of Environmental Health by Jacqueline L. Longe (Editor)
Publication date: 2019
One-stop source for information that covers all aspects of environmental health, including recent and historic natural and man made environmental health events, environmentally related health conditions and diseases, Important public health practices, environmental terms, and significant organizations and legislation.

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