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Health and Society in Latin America

DELCAT and WorldCat

Find books and journals owned by the University of Delaware Library in DELCAT and WorldCat Local. Explore searching by keyword(s) or by browsing subject headings (browse “subject begins with” in DELCAT) such as “health care reform—latin america,” “smoking—health aspects—south america,” “AIDS (Disease)—latin america,” or “public health—bolivia.”

Unlike DELCAT, WorldCat Local also retrieves records for articles. You can also initiate an interlibrary loan request to borrow books not owned by the University of Delaware Library.

To find articles and materials in other formats, use other resources. Some are listed below.

Research Tools

Databases - Essential

• HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Online [on trial through November 30, 2008]
  Journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.

• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine [on trial through November 30, 2008]
  International bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine.

• Academic OneFile
  Comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering most subject areas. Most of the journals are in full text, available in HTML and PDF formats.

• Historical Abstracts
  Covers the world’s scholarly literature in history (excluding the United States and Canada), with some links to full text. Available on both ABC-CLIO and EBSCOhost platforms.

• LexisNexis Academic
  Provices access to a vast number of newspapers, worldwide. Consult also World News Connection.

• JSTOR
  Backfiles of many scholarly journals. You'll often be led here from other databases, but you can also search across the journals here.

Databases - Secondary

• HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
  A clunky interface but you can use it to identify some important books and articles.

• MEDLINE
  Covers all aspects of medicine, including medical history, health policy, etc.

• CIA World Factbook
  Background information on countries.

• EIU Viewswire
  Background information on countries.

• PAIS International and PAIS Archive
  Citations to public and social policy books, articles, and government documents.

• Population Index on the Web
  Annotated bibliography of books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics.

• Anthropology Plus
  Use particularly for folk medicine or for topics relating to indigenous peoples.

See also Databases for Latin American Studies for additional online resources.

Key Journals

• Hispanic American Historical Review
• Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
• NACLA Report on the Americas (North American Congress on Latin America)

Electronic Resources on the Open Web

• Organization of American States

• Pan American Health Organization

• World Bank Group: Latin America and the Caribbean Region

See also Internet Resources for Latin American Studies.

Other Tools

• RefWorks
  Manage references from online databases.

• Credo Reference
  Online collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other ready-reference books.