Kinesiology 251 - Teaching Health Education: Databases

CINAHL Plus

CINAHL Plus is a database that indexes nursing and allied health literature.  We can use searching limiters to narrow down to articles relevant to health education.

Limit your publication date if you like to find only newer articles

Because this is also a nursing database, if you are getting back too many irrelevant nursing articles, you can limit down your results to certain Journal Subsets.  I recommend choosing Health Promotion/Education and Public Health (you can choose both using the CTRL key)

Locating FullText

• CINAHL is an indexing database, meaning it gives you the citation information of the articles without the full text.  Use the "Find Full Text" link to check to see if we have access to the full article. 
• This can sometimes take several clicks.  If you are at all confused, please ask a librarian to help you see if the full text is there.

There are a few other databases that may have relevant sources for Health Education topics.  Try similar keyword searches to those you use in CINAHL.