Draft Health Sector Plan – Jamaica
“The Health Sector Plan presents the conceptual framework that will result in improvement in the health of every resident of Jamaica as well as the development of the Jamaican health care delivery system to that of first world standard by the year 2030.” -Draft Health Sector Plan, Jamaica.
Information on Childhood Obesity in Jamaica
To locate information on childhood obesity in Jamaica you may use search terms such as:
childhood obesity, overweight children, obesity, jamaica, jamaican children
You can search the Library’s OPAC, Databases as well as Google Scholar.
Searching the websites of organisations such as PAHO and WHO for additional information may prove to be helpful as well. The following are examples of articles on this topic.
Household food insecurity and childhood overweight in Jamaica and Québec: a gender-based analysis
Jamaican Youth Risk and Resiliency Behaviour Survey 2005 (USAID)
Case Study Examples and Templates
To view case study examples, visit one of the library’s databases such as EBSCOhost or SpringerLink and search using the term “case study”. For templates you can search Google using the following string:
format “case study” site:.edu
OR
format “case study” site:.ac.uk
Prevalence of Diabetes in Jamaican Children
Articles
The changing faces of diabetes, hypertension and arthritis in a Caribbean population
Risk factors of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases among Jamaican adolescents (Access fulltext through ProQuest Database from http://www.mona.uwi.edu/library/index.html)
Search terms in PubMed
(diabetes) AND jamaican children
(tulloch-reid m[Author]) AND diabetes
Search terms in Google Scholar
jamaica childhood diabetes
Wikipedia Tutorial: a guide for students
The educational goals and objectives for this tutorial are based on the ACRL Literacy Competency Standards. Standard Three specifies: “The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system.” One of the performance indicators for Standard Three is: “The information literate student articulates and applies initial criteria for evaluating both the information and its sources.” The educational outcome for this tutorial is that the student will examine and compare “information from various sources in order to evaluate reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness, and point of view or bias.” (See: ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.
Articles featuring paediatric cancer in the Caribbean
Research Methods in Health Sciences
OPAC Search keywords – research methodology AND medicine; research methods AND medicine
Google scholar keywords – “research methods” “health sciences”
Information on Thumb Sucking
PubMed Search Results using the MeSH term “finger sucking”
Developmental and behavioral pediatrics :a handbook for primary care /edited by Steven Parker, Barry Zuckerman, and Marilyn Augustyn. Medical Library | Course Reserves Book (RBC) | RJ47.5 .B37 2005
This report was published by the International Council of Nurses and the authors are:
James Buchan
Mireille Kingma
F. Marilyn Lorenzo
It also includes information on Caribbean nurses. Click here to read.
LIBRARY HOURS FOR EASTER HOLIDAYS
The Main, Medical and Science Libraries will be CLOSED for the Easter holidays as indicated below:
Thursday April 1 at 10:00pm
(AND ALL DAY ON)
Friday April 2
Saturday April 3
Sunday April 4
Monday April 5
The Overnight Reading Room will be open throughout the long weekend from:
10:15pm Thursday April 1 to 6:00am on Tuesday April 6.
