Environmental Health Sciences

The research guide for Environmental Health Sciences provides detailed lists of information sources to help answer your research questions. In addition, please contact me for assistance any time that you're using library resources.  I can:

• Help with your literature search or provide advice about your research topic
• Give you tips for finding questionnaires or other study elements
• Teach you advanced techniques for database searching
• Orient you to the library resources available through UM
• Teach you about citation management tools (EndNote, Mendeley, etc.) that can save you time creating citations & bibliographies

Find information on COVID-19 quickly using these resources. The Front Door searches high quality meta-analyses, literature syntheses, & clinical guidelines from multiple sources in one place.

To search in PubMed, see the links below. To find results in more resources, including preprints, see this article: Farhad Shokraneh, Rapid Response:Keeping Up with Studies on COVID-19: Systematic Search Strategies and Resources. BMJ 2020;368:m1199. You can then modify the searches to make them more focused on the precise question that you're asking.

Please note: the links below go to public PubMed, not to PubMed @ UM.

For search strategies for OVID Medline, see the link below.

For even more resources, please see the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) research guide.

The Mortality Risk Calculator calculates risk of mortality from COVID-19 in currently uninfected individuals based on input on risk factors & community-level pandemic dynamics. COVID-19 Risk Map is an interactive map showing size of various high risk populations in US, nationwide & by cities, countries, & states.

Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal is an integrated, curated bibliographic database of global peer-reviewed research & gray literature on the science of climate impacts on human health.