Chikungunya Information for the Americas Including Ebook
Visit PAHO’s website for comprehensive information on Chikungunya including information for healthcare providers, maps and statistics and fact sheets. An ebook, Preparedness and Response for Chikungunya Virus – Introduction in the Americas produced in colaboration with the CDC is also included.
DevInfo – Tracking Human Development
DevInfo 7.0 makes it easy for governments, development partners, UN agencies, researchers, journalists, students, and the general public to access development information. Powerful tables/graphs/maps can be generated instantly for insertion in reports and advocacy tools. The new “My Data” feature lets users upload or copy/paste their data onto the site as a way to organize and visualize it.
Visit DevInfo today at www.devinfo.org
Statistical information on Jamaica can be found in the site at http://www.devinfo.org/jamstats/libraries/aspx/Home.aspx
What are the rates of cervical cancer in Jamaica?
You can do a Google search for this information using the keywords JAMAICA and CERVICAL CANCER and INCIDENCE (or PREVALENCE).
Internet Scientific Publications
Here’s another open access tool for researchers. Resources include over 90 medical peer-reviewed journals that are either fully or partially indexed with Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ, Google Scholar, Embase, Scopus, Cinahl, Ebsco, Gale, J-Gate, Open J-Gate, Socolar, and Index Copernicus. Click here to view this resource.
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.
Reference Librarian 