Research Guides: DEN126 Dental Hygiene II: Your Assignment

Your Assignment

Terminology

Health Topics
From the World Health Organization, an alphabetical list of all health topics, which does include links to information on specific diseases.
MedlinePlus Health Topics
Read about symptoms, causes, treatment and prevention for over 975 diseases, illnesses, health conditions and wellness issues.
Merck Manual Professional Version
Find information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news and more, written for the health care professional.
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
Controlled vocabulary used to index journal articles and books in the life sciences, and also to facilitate searching MEDLINE/PubMed.
ProQuest Thesaurus
Enter a term to find the matches in the thesaurus, or browse for a term.

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Most subjects are covered.

Identify Keywords

Databases have controlled vocabularies and in order to find scholarly articles on your topic, you need to use the same vocabulary as the database. Look for a link to thesaurus, subject headings, etc.

Here are some keywords and phrases you could use:

dental AND diabetes (or other special need)
dental AND "special needs"
dental AND "medically compromised"

Reminder: Use quotes when searching phrases (except in PubMed).