Hot Topics: Health Equity and Health Disparity: Extending Your Research

• Journal articles are written by scholars and researchers, who are experts in their fields. They are excellent sources of credible scholarly information. In many library databases you can click a "peer reviewed" or "scholarly article" box to produce a list of references to scholarly articles.
• News articles are usually written by journalists at the time an event happens. They provide factual information, quotes, and anecdotes, but usually not much analysis.  

Use "source type" boxes and menus to limit publications to a particular kind such as scholarly journal or newspaper. You may need to use an "advanced" search screen to see these options.

Try search terms like

• health and equity
• health and inequit*
• health and disparit*
• health and discrimination

More tips:

• Try using "healthcare" instead of "health" when you search
• Add "United States" to focus on U.S. health care issues

You can also search for articles and books about specific populations

• immigrant* and health
• rural and african american* and health
• transgender people and medic*

Once you find an article you like, look at the subject terms. Use them to find similar articles.

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