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American Public Health Association
Works to Improve the health of the public and achieve equity in health status.
The Carter Center
The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering. It seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.
Center for Disease Control
CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S.
Global Health Council
Global Health Council (GHC) is the leading membership organization supporting and connecting advocates, implementers and stakeholders around global health priorities worldwide.
Indian Health Service
The Indian Health Service, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services , is responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. The provision of health services to members of federally-recognized tribes grew out of the special government-to-government relationship between the federal government and Indian tribes.
Inequality Is Real
Brings clarity to the national dialogue on wage and income inequality, using interactive tools and videos to tell the story of how we arrived at the state of inequality we find today and what can be done to reverse course and ensure workers get their fair share.
National Environmental Health Association
We are the leading organization supporting environmental health professionals in the US and the world. We represent more than 7,000 governmental, private, academic, and uniformed services sector environmental health professionals in the U.S., its territories, and internationally.
Office of Minority Health
Dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities.
Office on Women’s Health
Leads several groups and committees to coordinate efforts for women's health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as with other federal agencies. Learn more about what we do.
Pan-American Health Organization
PAHO is the specialized international health agency for the Americas. It works with countries throughout the region to improve and protect people's health.
Roanoke City Health Department
RCAHD serves a combined population of over 278,900 throughout both rural and urban environments from eight office locations. RCAHD staff work to promote and encourage healthy behavior, protect the public against environmental hazards, prevent epidemics and the spread of disease, respond to disasters, assist communities in recovery and assure the quality and accessibility of health services for all communities.
Roanoke County Virginia Health Organization
The Health Department's mission is to promote a state of optimum health for all citizens of Roanoke County and the Alleghany Health District through community assessment, public policy development and assurance of equal access to and excellence in health services.
This Is Public Health
The This is Public Health (TIPH) campaign was created by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) to brand public health and raise awareness of how public health affects individuals, families, communities, and populations.
United Nations, Programmes Page (many are health related)
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. It is currently made up of 193 Member States. The mission and work of the United Nations are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.
US Food and Drug Administration
Each day in America, you can trust the foods you eat and the medicines you take, thanks to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. More than 18,000 FDA employees work in all 50 states and internationally to ensure the safety and effectiveness of human and veterinary medicines, biologics, and medical devices. We also regulate the safety of food, cosmetics, devices that emit radiation, and tobacco products.
US Public Health Service
The USPHS Commissioned Corps is one of the nation’s uniformed services — a branch committed to the service of health. Officers advance our nation’s public health, serving in agencies across the government, as physicians, nurses, dentists, veterinarians, scientists, engineers and other professionals.
World Health Organization
The goal at the World Health Organization (WHO) is to build a better, healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO Secretariat staff work side by side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people.
Virginia Department of Health
The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) is dedicated to protecting and promoting the health of Virginians. The VDH is made up of a statewide Central Office in Richmond and 35 local health districts. These entities work together to promote healthy lifestyle choices that can combat chronic disease, educate the public about emergency preparedness and threats to their health, and track disease outbreaks in Virginia.
Virginia Public Health Association
VPHA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that improves the public’s health in Virginia by strengthening public health practice, fostering health equity, and promoting sound public health policy.
Virginia Rural Health Association
The Virginia Rural Health Association (VRHA) is a nonprofit organization working for the 2.5 million people who call rural Virginia their home. Their mission is to improve the health of rural Virginians through education, advocacy, and fostering cooperative partnerships.
The oldest and one of the premier epidemiologic journals devoted to the publication of empirical research findings, opinion pieces, and methodological developments in the field of epidemiologic research.
Provides primary research to identify the principal contributions in the field of public health.
BMC Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on the epidemiology of disease and the understanding of all aspects of public health.
The scientific journal of the World Health Organization. Presents original research findings on worldwide human health problems.
Designed to be of interest and help to all those who make policy and those who implement policity concerned with change. Focus on educaton, research and practice for improving access to, and quality of, health care in the context of changing opportunities.
A peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original research on the full spectrum of epidemiologic topics. Journal content ranges from cancer, heart disease and other chronic illnesses to reproductive, environmental, psychosocial, infectious-disease and genetic epidemiology. The journal places special emphasis on theory and methodology, and welcomes commentaries that explore fundamental assumptions or offer provocative dissent.
A pioneering and transdisciplinary journal that situates public health and wellbeing within the dynamic forces of global development; publishing high quality original research and debate on globalization and its effects on public health, both positive and negative.
The journal is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of all aspects of health and health care in which place or location matters.
Encompasses all aspects of epidemiology and public health. It publishes original research, opinions and materials concerned with the study and improvement of communities worldwide.
Articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of health, illness, and medicine in their social context.
Original research, commentary, and correspondence. Content is complemented by regular blog posts.
An international journal published by the Society for Medical Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. The journal publishes research and theory in all areas of medical anthropology. Its goal is to stimulate development of important theory, methods, and debates in medical anthropology and to explore the links between medical anthropology, the broader field of anthropology, and neighboring fields in the humanities, social sciences, and health-related disciplines, including public health and clinical medicine.
Provides international coverage of preventive medicine, epidemiology, social & community medicine. Topics: child health, communicable disease control control, health service provision & management, allocation of scarce resources epidemiology.
Databases:
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
More than a century of full-text anthropological knowledge, across the breadth and depth of the discipline.
Full text journals, many back to the original issue. Provides access to journals in the arts & sciences, business, ecology & botany, and languages & literature. JSTOR's coverage typically begins 3 -5 years after the current year.
Full text access and image access to more thank 10,000 newspapers from the U.S. and worldwide. Access includes both historical and current day's news which includes the Roanoke Times, from 1990 to the current day.
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 70 national (U.S.) and international newspapers including the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. and television & radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc. The database also contains selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
Contains full text of articles from over 2,500 publications, and indexing and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications, supporting research in all core undergraduate subjects and for cross-disciplinary work.
Covers today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration.
Offers a large collection of online scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. Resources are available for reading online, printing, and/or downloading and using off-line.
topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Professional medical literature available via the National Library of Medicine as PubMed.
more than 1,000 journals, from a wide range of disciplines including: Business & Management, Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Medicine & Surgery, Communication & Media Studies, Criminology, Education, Engineering & Materials Science, Geography, Health & Nursing, Neurology & Neuroscience, Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pathology, Politics & International Relations, Psychiatry, Psychology & Counselling, Religion
"Explore over 500,000 data indicators and over 220 years of data for the United States from present to 1790, including all Decennial Censuses, American Community Surveys and many other datasets." Also features mapping tools and curriculum guides.
Social Sciences Full Text™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
Sociology, contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908.
Internet Resources:
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey
BRFSS is the nation’s premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. BRFSS collects data in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories. BRFSS completes more than 400,000 adult interviews each year, making it the largest continuously conducted health survey system in the world.
Provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
The annual County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income inequality, and teen births in nearly every county in America. The annual Rankings provide a revealing snapshot of how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work and play.
A collection of summarized research evaluating the impact of specific policies, strategies, and organizational practices to close gender gaps in the areas of economic opportunity, politics, health, and education.
Cannabis Policy Impacts Public Health and Health Equity
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Encyclopedia of Public Health
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Encyclopedia of Public Health (22 Volume Set)
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Handbook for Social Work in Public Health
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International Encyclopedia of Public Health
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Public Health and the American State
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Public Health Ethics
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To Repair the World
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The Ethics of Public Health Paternalism
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OWL Purdue APA Style Guide (APA 7)
APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6th edition, second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (6th ed., 2nd printing).
For more information about Public Health Studies, please contact any of the following faculty members:
Dr. Kristen Rapp, MPH Coordinator of Public Health Studies
Public Health and Sociology
schorpp@roanoke.edu
x2416
Dr. Shannon Anderson
Public Health and Sociology
slanderson@roanoke.edu
x5104
Dr. Kimberly Garza, MPH
Public Health
garza@roanoke.edu
x5256
