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I've divided this page into two sections. The first provides you with some
tips on searching for material on Medline, and the second provides links
to
other web resources, including some full text material.
Searching Medline
Remember that Medline has a Thesaurus of terms - MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), a controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles in Medline. MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve information where authors may use different terminology for the same concepts.
You will find material on this subject in Medline, but you will need to be aware of the thesaurus (MeSH) terms used to search for the various topics. Medline does not use the
word "migrants" in its list of terms, so you'll need to choose from some of the options below.
MeSH -Anthropology, Cultural
MeSH - Culture
MeSH - Emigration and Immigration
MeSH -Ethnic Groups
MeSH - Minority Groups
MeSH - Refugees
MeSH - Transients and Migrants
Many topics in MeSH have hierarchies of more specific subcategories or related terms. The indentations in the lists reflect the structure of the hierarchy, and the + signs at the end of terms indicate that there is a further hierarchy of terms not displayed here. Any of these terms can be searched individually, or you can "explode" terms to search sections of the list.
When you search for subjects using MeSH terms from the Medline thesaurus you will also have the option of appending subheadings to narrow the focus of your search.
For a list of the abbreviations used for subheadings in PubMed click here
Try the search formulation below to search for
articles on public health and migrants in Australia
COMBINE
Refugees (MeSH term)
OR
Emigration and Immigration (MeSH term)
AND
Public Health (MeSH term)
Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention
and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and
mental health of the population on the international, national, state,
or municipal level.
AND
Australia (Mesh term)
The advantage of searching Australia as a thesaurus
term is that "exploding" this thesaurus term will search for Australia
as a whole, as well as the individual states and territories.
PubMed Search Formulation
(refugees[majr] OR emigration and immigration[majr])
AND public health[majr] AND australia[mh] AND english[lang]
If you search multiple topics which you then want to "AND" to another
topic you need to connect them with "OR" and bracket them to preserve the
logic of your search. In the search above I have used brackets to ensure
that BOTH refugees and emigration and immigration are matched
with public health.
PubMed's default setting is to "explode" all terms, and so this search
will include all the subcategories of public health. Clixck on the link below to see them listed.
MeSH - Public Health
The search is then limited to Australia and its states and territories,
and finally to articles in English or with English abstracts.
Click here to see how it works. PubMed
Search
Other Sources
DiversityRx
Promoting language and cultural competence to improve the quality of
health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities
Diversity Rx is supported by The National Conference of State Legislatures
(NCSL) Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care (RCCHC) and Henry J. Kaiser
Family Foundation of Menlo Park, CA.
Ethnicity and Health Specialist Library
Part of the National Library for Health in the U.K.
EthnoMed
The EthnoMed site is an Ethnic Medicine Guide from Harborview Medical
Center, University of Washington, and contains information about cultural
beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health
care of recent immigrants to Seattle, many of whom are refugees fleeing
war-torn parts of the world.
Health
Survey for England: the Health of Minority Ethnic Groups '99
 Health Survey for England 2004: Health of Ethnic Minorities
The Health Survey for England is an annual survey of the health of the population. It has an annually repeating core accompanied by different topic modules each year.
Minority Ethnic Communities and Health
At the request of the Ethnic Advisor for the United Kingdom (UK) Department of Health, the United States (US) agreed to collaborate with the UK on issues of vital concern to both countries as it relates to the health of minorities. The purpose of this collaboration is to provide a forum to exchange information on minority health needs in each country and to develop an agenda for long-term collaboration on improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations in both countries.
Multicultural
Health Resources
From the Queensland Government's Queensland Health site.
Office of Minority Health Resource Center
(U.S.)
This site has a searchable database with information on publications,
programs, and organisations involved with minority health issues.
Transcultural
and Multicultural Health Links
From the New mexico State University Library this site is compiled
and created by Ellen Bosman. It contains a wide array of links on religious
groups, ethnic groups, and other special populations.
Unequal Treatment:
Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health
care / Brian D. Smedley, Adrianne Y. Stith, and Alan R Nelson, editors,
Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities
in Health Care, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine.
National Academy Press, 2002. |
