Health Equity

There are a number of databases that you can use to identify articles on health disparities.  Here are some of the best ones, followed by a list of useful search terms.

PubMed: Articles in medicine, health care, and related fields. 

CINAHL:  Articles in nursing and allied health fields.

Embase: Comprehensive index to biomedical literature

Search terms/phrases include:

• "Healthcare disparities"
• "Minority health"
• "Women's health"
• "World health"
• "Health status disparities"
• "Health equity"
• Healthcare AND "vulnerable populations"

For additional information on searching PubMed, see the PubMed Search Guide. The National Library of Medicine has a prestructured search for PubMed, click here to run the search automatically. MEDLINE/PubMed health disparities search .

For additional information on searching CINAHL, see the CINAHL resources.

For additional information on searching Embase, see https://libguides.utoledo.edu/Embase_Guide

There are a number of journals dealing with health equity and disparities. The UToledo Libraries has access to many of them but not all. If you are a UToledo student, resident, faculty, or staff member and need an article that is not available at UToledo, submit a request on ILLiad. We will find a library that has the article and get a copy at no charge to you.