Using my College Library
In this week’s challenge we had to look up our topics on Google Scholar and use our library data base.
The first thing I use was Google Scholar. I typed in a key word and a bunch of results but got results that didn’t really pertain to my topic or that were just too broad. It tried again but with quotation marks, my results were better. Once I started looking and started to find articles I thought I could use I got excited. What I was not excited about was all the reading I had to do just to figure out if I really needed the article or if it was really good for my topic. Eventually I would try to find the summary or the discussion part of the article to better see if I needed it without having to read the whole thing.
My next step was using the library data base. I looked at the YouTube video that my professor’s had posted to better see how to use it. After watching the video I headed right in. We used Academic Search Premier. After typing in my key words using quotation marks and clicking on the box that said full text I discovered there is more that one could do. So I clicked on the language I wanted, the years I wanted it from, and I made sure it was scholarly. Another thing I discovered on my own was that I could make my own folder to put my articles in. That is where I put all my articles that were related to health care.
From the school library I was able to research done on women’s health. There was actually a lot on women’s health, mostly to promote it and to do more research specifically on women’s health. There was also a journal article about learning more about the differences in the sexes, women’s health services, and partnerships with businesses and the scientific community. What I found most interesting was that the Office of Research on Women’s Health was the main source or article that women’s health was being done on. There were not many other journal articles that were on women’s health that did not have (ORWH) on it. What I found on Google Scholar were articles too, but not any from ORWH that I saw. What I did find were articles on how doctors could treat their patients better. Mostly on how some doctors could be a little prejudice/racist when diagnosing their patients. Mostly, what I read is that doctors are asking questions that pertain to the patients race or making decisions based on race. Yes, there are differences in health based on race, but the doctors must be aware that it is not to all diseases or sicknesses that race is a factor. It was also found that patients were being treated better when they were Caucasian rather than African American, Asian Or Hispanic, even White Hispanics were treated better. I used treated in the sense of health care and character. These are just a few of the findings that I found and the results that came from it.
