Public Health and Education

1. Stakeholders

2. Importance or Relevance of Issue

3. Behavioral Components

4. Equity Issues or Disparities with Health Outcomes and Behaviors

5. Policies that Exist

6. What's Missing?

For many of the elements of your analysis, you are going to rely on your own brainstorming and knowledge of the topic, while also looking at information sources (online news, organizational websites, other web sources) to discover the above elements of your given topic. 

Once you discover the elements of each section, those may become keywords in your search. You may also need to brainstorm additional alternative keywords for your topic. For policies that currently exist, your best searching will take place online and use the site: feature to limit to government and organizational sites.

Example: teenage vaping

Alternative keywords sample: e-cigarettes, vaping, teenagers, adolescents, young adults, youth

Behavioral factor search sample: "peer influence" AND vaping AND teenager

Equity and disparity search sample: vaping AND "health disparity"

Policy search sample: vaping policy site:gov

Search Techniques (Only work in Google products, not library databases)

1. Quotation Marks
   1. Use around short phrases to keep the phrase together as a search term
      1. Example: "mental health"
   2. Use around a single word to ensure that word shows up in results
      1. Example: "teenager"
      2. If you don't use quotation marks around a single word, that word may or may not show up in your results.
   3. You can use an unlimited amount of quotation marks however the more keywords you use in a search, the more you are narrowing your results.
2. Minus Sign (-)
   1. Use to ensure a word doesn't show up
   2. Example: "cancer" -colon
   3. You can use an unlimited amount of minus signs however the more you use in a search, the more you are narrowing your results.
3. intitle:
   1. Use to ensure a word or phrase shows up in the title of the article
   2. To use you must use lower case and there shouldn't be a gap between intitle: and the keyword(s) you are using
   3. Example: intitle:teenager intitle:"mental health"
   4. You can use an unlimited amount of intitle: however the more you use in a search, the more you are narrowing your results.
4. site:
   1. Use to limit to specific site domain (.gov, .org, .edu)
   2. Example: epilepsy policy site:gov
   3. You typically only use one site: function per search.

AND

1. Narrows your search
2. You can use multiple AND's. The more you use, it narrows your search and you will get fewer your results.
3. Example:
   1. "blood pressure" AND medication

OR

1. Broadens your search
2. You can use multiple OR's. The more you use, the more results you will get.
3. Good to use when you know synonyms or alternative words for a keyword you are researching.
4. Example:
   1. "blood pressure" OR hypertension