Resources - COM 320 - Patient-Provider Communication - Library Services at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Find Background Information

Books are excellent sources for providing background research on a topic.

To find articles that focus on patient-provider communication from the social scientific perspective, start with these databases.

Proquest Social Science Database
Social science disciplines covered include communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
Proquest Research Library: Social Sciences
This resource covers publications on social science information for researchers

When searching a journal directly for articles, make sure that you're searching the specific journal title and not all of the publisher's journals.

For supplemental information on your topic, try searching these biomedical databases.

PubMed
PubMed provides access to MEDLINE®, the database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database
Covers the fields of nursing and allied health, physical and occupational therapy, cytology, histology, physiology, anatomy, gerontology, and more.
Gale OneFile: Health & Medicine
Access to the full text of many nursing and allied health journals from 1980 to the present.

Annenberg National Health Communication Survey (ANHCS)
Designed to capture national trends relating health behavior and behavioral intentions to media exposure, health knowledge and beliefs. The data is archived and is publicly available each year through this website.
CDC Gateway to Health Communication
CDC's Gateway to communication practice and social marketing. Includes the Health Communication Science Digest.
Clear Communication: A NIH Health Literacy Initiative
A resource to those engaged in communicating about health in the community, school, and other arenas. The goal being to cultivate a growing health literacy movement by increasing information sharing of NIH educational products, research, lessons learned, and research in the area of health literacy.
Patient Provider Communication
A national and international effort to promote information sharing, cooperation and collaboration among individuals who are committed to seeking improvements in patient-provider communication across the entire health care continuum. Includes webcasts, presentations and case studies.

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