Social Determinants of Health

Scholarly articles:

• CINAHL

Canadian newspaper articles:

• Canadian News@ProQuest

Statistics:

• Census Program - Statistics Canada

Public Health

• Association of Ontario Health Centres Membership List (pdf)
• Grand River Community Health Centre
• St Leonard's Community Services
• Habitat for Humanity Brant-Norfolk

Laurier Articles via Google Scholar

Google Scholar

• Go to settings and click on “Library” on the left side of the page
• Type in Laurier and search; make sure the link to it is checked; save these settings

Evaluating resources

• Relevance What evidence does this source add to your research topic?
• Authority Who wrote it and how do we know we can trust them?
• Accuracy Is there evidence of bias? Do other documents support this source?
• Currency When was it written?
• Purpose Why was it written? Who was the intended audience?

Additional Tips:

• Use a multi-pronged approach; search by using our Omni catalogue, the databases, Google Scholar, the bibliographies of articles you have found
• Think of different terms for the same word (e.g. post-secondary OR university)
• Use quotation marks when searching for two words that go together as a phrase (e.g. “mental health”)
• Use an asterisk and the root of a word to get all forms of it (e.g. rac* will find the words race and racial)
• For scholarly articles, look for the “peer-reviewed journals” option in the Omni catalogue and in the databases
• If you search in our Omni articles, use the links (especially the “subject links” and “more options”) to narrow down your search

Research help:

• Contact Pauline Dewan (pdewan@wlu.ca)