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Subject Guide: Health & Human Development
A guide to key Health & Human Development resources at the South West TAFE library
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 Find books, magazines, videos, CD's, computer software, posters, audiovisual equipment
BROWSE THE LIBRARY

 

 Use Dewey numbers to search the library shelves
306.461 Sociology of health
362.1 Health care facilities
613 Health
613.2 Nutrition and health
641.302 Health foods
641.563 Diet cooking
KEY REFERENCE SOURCES

Encyclopedias
Dictionaries
Laws
Statistics
Handbooks

 ENCYCLOPEDIAS
For getting basic, summary information about a subject

REF 603 M147

 McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology

Gray's anatomy of the human body


DICTIONARIES
For defining terms and clarifying concepts

REF 610.3 M894

 Mosby's medical, nursing and allied health dictionary


LAWS
Australian food standards code


STATISTICS
For gathering facts and figures

REF 319.45 VIC Victorian year book
REF 319.4 AUS Year book Australia

ABS health statistics
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare


HANDBOOKS & MANUALS
For quick look-ups of factual information and instructions
National health priority areas

 

FIND JOURNAL & NEWS ARTICLES

Databases
CD-ROM's
Print Sources

 

 

 

 Journal and news articles provide current information on a range of subjects

Infotrac database | Infotrac instructions
Find and print articles from a broad range of journals

Age on CD
Find and print Age newspaper articles - 1993+
KEY JOURNALS

Print journals
Online journals

 PRINT JOURNALS
PER  150 PSY Psychology today
PER  362.60994 POS Positive ageing
PER  381.330999 CHO Choice
PER  505 NEW New scientist
PER  641 AUS Australian journal of nutrition and dietetics

Use Infotrac and Austguide to find journal articles

ONLINE JOURNALS 
Australian journal of nutrition
Health promotion journal of Australia
Better Health
 Health Insite 
RELEVANT ORGANISATIONS A&NZ Food Authority
 Australian Dept of Health & Aged Care
 Department of Human Services

 
VIDEOS Videos may be viewed within the library.  Art videos are available for loan
VIRTUAL REFERENCE COLLECTION

Web dictionaries
Web encyclopedias
Government
Health
Statistics

 

 The Virtual Reference Collection is a set of carefully evaluated online reference sources
  • find information about health statistics
  • define health-related terms
  • learn about diet and nutrition
OTHER LIBRARIES

Deakin Library
Reciprocal borrowing
Other TAFE's
Public Libraries

 Deakin library
Deakin Catalog
SWIT students may borrow from Deakin's Warrnambool collection

CAVAL
Search CoolCat
Use a CAVAL card to borrow from other TAFE's and Universities

TAFE virtual library
Find out if other TAFE libraries have what you need

Victoria's virtual library
Search public library catalogues throughout Victoria

 
EVALUATE INFORMATION Learn to check for accuracy, reliability, credibility, recency and fairness


REFERENCES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Reference sources 
Bibliographies
Online sources

 

 Learn to cite reference sources and prepare bibliographies


 
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