Find Books and Articles

START by exploring Library OneSearch (includes books, ebooks, academic journals, newspapers)

*Try search terms like "health promotion" AND "at risk" AND teen* (using * will get teens, teenages etc) and use facets on left to narrow by source type - choose "Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review"

Recommended databases:

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
A full-text database for nursing and allied health journals from 1937 to the present. It includes access to scholarly journal articles, dissertations, magazines, pamphlets, evidence-based care sheets, books, and research instruments.
PubMed (MEDLINE) This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's free bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
This is a collection of databases that contain evidence for healthcare decision-making. Includes systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials.

Examples of Health Promotion Programs

ERIC This link opens in a new window
The authoritative index for education research sources including government reports, journal articles, and conference papers. Covers all education topic areas and is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window
MedlinePlus provides consumer health information for patients, families, and health care providers. Produced by the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources, it includes extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, a medical dictionary, interactive patient tutorials, health care provider directories, and latest health news.

National Guidelines Clearinghouse
A clearinghouse of practice guidelines and measures published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

TRIP This link opens in a new window
TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) is a clinical search tool designed to allow users to identify quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. In addition to research evidence, users can also search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses, and news.

Select Book Titles and Searches

Sample searches:

Health Promotion - encyclopedia entries, articles, books, ebooks

Health Promotion - Nursing - books and ebooks

"health promotion" "risk populations" - books and ebooks

Sample books:

Integrative health promotion: conceptual bases for nursing practice / Susan Kun Leddy. Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2006.

Health promotion in practice / Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, Joan Arnold, editors. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2006.

Government Data

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) -

U.S. Census data-

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Nursing Librarian

Mariela Hristova

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Subjects: Nursing