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Community Health Campaign

Public Health 310: Health Wellness Communication

KeyWords

• obesity
• overweight / over weight
• weight control
• snacks
• sodas or "soft drinks"
• healthy snacks
• healthful snacks
• junk food
• adolescents
• children
• general awareness vs. targeted
• eating habits
• campaign
• advocacy

Journal Literature

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles.
• Health Reference Center Academic
  • Citations, abstracts, or full-text access to 700+ general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books, and pamphlets.  Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. 1980- present.
• Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis)
  • Index and full text to news, business, legal, medical, and reference materials and links to congressional and statistical information.
• PubMED — Medline
  • The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database (citations and abstracts, with some links to full text.
• AgeLine
  • Index to materials on social gerontology, including health care and other aging issues. Produced by AARP. 1978 - present.
• GenderWatch
  • Full text collection of articles covering women's and gender topics.
• Ethnic NewsWatch
  • Articles, editorials, reviews, etc. from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Search in English or Spanish. 1990- present.

Selected Demographic Information

• Bureau of the Census
  • Population of U.S. states, counties, places by ethnicity, income, age, gender, etc.
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  • The BRFSS, the world's largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States.
• Nevada State Health Division
  • State of Nevada health programs.
• Health United States
  • Health statistics, United States.

Policy / Opinions

• PolicyFile
  • Abstracts of public policy research from think tanks, university research organizations, and publishers. Many links to full text documents and related Web sites. Contributors include the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, RAND Corporation, and many others.
• LexisNexis Congressional
  • Index to U.S. Congressional publications; text of bills, laws, regulations, Congressional testimony and publications; legislative histories; members and committees of Congress. 1789 - present. Sample government report.
• CQ Electronic Library
  • Full text of two of Congressional Quarterly's premier print publications, CQ Weekly (from 1983) and CQ Researcher (from November 1991).

Miscellaneous Community Health Services

• Nevada Community Health Centers
• Nevada County Community Health Department
• Nevada Bureau of Community Health