Searching Health Info Online

How do you search for health information online?

Please watch the following 2-minute video, which provides tips for effective Google searching, including how to limit your results to only educational (.edu) or government (.gov) websites.

Additional viewing options: Turn on closed captions with the "CC" button, or use the text transcript Links to an external site. if you prefer to read.

UWF Libraries. (n.d.). Searching Google effectively Links to an external site. [video file].

Keywords 

Identifying keywords related to your research topic can help you focus your search.

Examples of keywords related to social determinants of health include: "Neighborhood and Physical Environment" "housing" and "health status"

More keyword examples. Neighborhood and physical environment: California, Santa Cruz, community, resources. Housing: cost, affordable, gentrification, low-income, homeless. Health status: health, illnesses, stress, quality of life. Who: children, families, low-income, immigrants

Different keywords will produce different results.

Example Google searches. Search 1: affordable housing health children. Search 2: affordable housing health children immigrants. Search 3: affordable housing health children immigrants statistics

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Now You Try

  1. Search for a website that includes helpful information on the Social Determinant of Health you are researching.
  2. Search for a local organization that provides services that would be helpful for a patients.