Guides @ UF: Health Education: Journals

Health Education Journals

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Highlighted Health Education Journals

American Journal of Health Behavior
The American Journal of Health Behavior seeks to improve the quality of life through multidisciplinary health efforts in fostering a better understanding of the multidimensional nature of both individuals and social systems as they relate to health behaviors.
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The Journal aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of personal attributes, personality characteristics, behavior patterns, social structure, and processes on health maintenance, health restoration, and health improvement; to disseminate knowledge of holistic, multidisciplinary approaches to designing and implementing effective health programs; and to showcase health behavior analysis skills that have been proven to affect health improvement and recovery.
Global Health Promotion
Global Health Promotion, is the official publication of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). It is a multilingual journal, which publishes authoritative peer-reviewed articles and practical information for a world-wide audience of professionals interested in health promotion and health education.
Health Education & Behavior
Health Education & Behavior (HEB) is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly journal that provides empirical research, case studies, program evaluations, literature reviews, and discussions of theories of health behavior and health status, as well as strategies to improve social and behavioral health. HEB also examines the processes of planning, implementing, managing, and assessing health education and social-behavioral interventions.
Health Promotion Practice
Health Promotion Practice (HPP) is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly journal devoted to the practical application of health promotion and education. HPP focuses on critical and strategic information for professionals engaged in the practice of developing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion and disease prevention programs.

Journal of Family & Community Health

Family & Community Health
Family & Community Health is a practical quarterly which presents creative, multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches for effective public and community health programs. Each issue focuses on a single timely topic and addresses issues of concern to a wide variety of population groups with diverse ethnic backgrounds, including children and the elderly, men and women, and rural and urban communities.

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Quick Picks - the most popular HSCL databases

AccessDermatology This link opens in a new window
Courtesy of the Dermatology Department
AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
AccessPharmacy This link opens in a new window
Courtesy of the College of Pharmacy
APA PsycINFO (on EBSCOHost platform) 1887-current This link opens in a new window
Biosis Citation Index This link opens in a new window
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Examine life sciences and biomedical resources from journals, meetings, patents, and books on topics from agriculture to zoology.
CABI Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Agricultural Science, veterinary medicine, nutrition and natural resources.
CINAHL This link opens in a new window
Nursing and allied health journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, dissertations, standards, legislation, videos and books. State nursing journals and nursing practice acts often available in fulltext.
Clinical Pharmacology This link opens in a new window
College of Pharmacy access only.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including some full-text.
EBSCO (all databases) This link opens in a new window
Embase This link opens in a new window
Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)( Ovid ) This link opens in a new window
InCites Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
National Center for Biotechnology Information (National Library of Medicine) This link opens in a new window
A national resource for molecular biology information, which creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information.
Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window
The most authoritative resource available on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
PsycINFO (on EBSCOHost online platform) 1887-Current This link opens in a new window
American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Journal coverage spans from the 1800s to the present.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Biomedical database from U.S. National Library of Medicine. PubMed comprises citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and e-books, some links to full text content.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary database covering articles from 240 disciplines. Includes citation tracking.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
Evidence-based, peer reviewed clinical information. On campus and VPN access only – courtesy of the College of Medicine Office of Graduate Medical Education.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary journal indexing and citation database with coverage back to 1900.