Children's Health

Children's Health

Information on CHILDREN'S HEALTH can be found in many libraries as well as at a number of reliable internet resources.

From this web page, you will find sources from a health sciences perspective.

ADOLESCENT is defined as a person 13 - 18 years of age.

ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES is defined as organized services to provide health care to adolescents, ages ranging from 13 through 18 years.

CHILD is defined as a person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.

CHILD HEALTH SERVICES is defined as organized services to provide health care for children.

CHILD NUTRITION is defined as nutrition of children aged 2-12 years.

DISABLED CHILDREN is defined as children with mental or physical disabilities that interfere with usual activities of daily living and that may require accommodation or intervention.

INFANT is defined as a child between 1 and 23 months of age.

PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY is defined as the practice of dentistry concerned with the dental problems of children, proper maintenance, and treatment. The dental care may include the services provided by dental specialists.

PEDIATRIC NURSING is defined as the nursing care of children from birth to adolescence. It includes the clinical and psychological aspects of nursing care.

PEDIATRICS is defined as a medical specialty concerned with maintaining health and providing medical care to children from birth to adolescence.

All of the bold-face terms may be used for subject searching in EuclidPLUS (as a MeSH: Medical Subject Heading Search) or in PubMed. All of the definitions for the bold-face terms are from MeSH, Medical Subject Headings from the U. S. National Library of Medicine.

If you need more information, please contact Reference at the Allen at 216.368.3640, or at the Health Center at 216.368.3218, or send us an email, (hclref@case.edu).

Print Resources

Readily available books and journals are good starting places for research on a topic. Dictionaries and textbooks are especially helpful. Please check the items listed on Print Resources for Children's Health available at Case.

Catalogs are lists of materials an institution owns or to which it has access. At Case Western Reserve University, the catalog is EuclidPLUS. EuclidPLUS includes information about print and electronic materials, both monographic and serial.

Other catalogs are:

OhioLINK Library Catalog >>

Library of Congress >>

LocatorPlus >>

WorldCat >>

Research Databases

Databases are collections of data organized for rapid search and retrieval by a computer. In libraries they are primarily bibliographic in nature, indexing journals, meetings and sometimes books. An example of a database is PubMed.

Other databases where you can find information about Children's Health are:

Sociological Abstracts >>

All Research Databases at Case >>