Global Health: Home

Global Health is an interdisciplinary areas of study related to changes and issues in global health. It covers diversity of topics, including anthropology, public health, medicine, epidemiology, socioeconomics and environment issues etc. This resource guide can help us to understand of the historical background and the current issues and challenges in the field of global health. 

Keywords: WHO, global health, public health, global public health, world health, international health, public health administration etc 

Here is a good, basic formula for getting started with your research:

• Begin by narrowing down your topic and developing an initial research question.
• Use the keyword brainstorming worksheet to help you tweak your research question, identify keywords and related terms, and keep track of what you find.  
• Search in a library catalog (Summon, OBIS, OhioLINK and/or WorldCat) to find books and reference sources.  These sources will:
  • provide BACKGROUND and CONTEXT
  • REVIEW and SUMMARIZE earlier work
  • help you FOCUS your topic and
  • provide CITATIONS to important books, journal articles, conference papers, interviews, etc.
• Next, search research databases to find articles. The library has hundreds of databases; those listed on this guide are good places to begin.
• You may also wish to use Google Scholar to search the Internet.  This is a great tool for doing cited reference searches.