Along with principles, pathways, and imperatives pertinent to achieving health equity, this book “discusses the evolution of thinking from eliminating health disparities to achieving health equity, and examines population-based and population-specific inequities in health status and outcomes.”
Cochrane Systematic Reviews are produced by Cochrane Collaboration Review Group members who use explicit methodology “aimed at minimizing bias” and often viewed as the gold standard for conducting systematic reviews. This methodology is outlined in Cochrane Handbook. Researchers conducting systematic reviews outside of Cochrane collaboration can still use Cochrane methodology as a benchmark.
All current Cochrane Reviews can be found not just on the Cochrane Library itself, but via other databases as well, such as Pubmed and Embase. The biggest difference between searching within Cochrane Library compared to other databases, is that in Cochrane Library only the current or most recent review is retrieved in a search, whereas all versions can be located when searching PubMed or Embase (as seen in the example here). All Cochrane Reviews, including the superseded versions, can be found in Cochrane Library by browsing all issues of the CDSR.
Finding Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) content
CENTRAL contains mostly RCTs (randomized controlled trials) which come from the outside sources, e.g. bibliographic databases such as Pubmed, Embase and CINAHL, unpublished sources, hand searching the literature, and web sources such as clinical trials.gov, World Health Organization. Although trials ingested from Pubmed, Embase, CINAHL and select other sources can be found separately via those databases and websites, CENTRAL as a whole can be searched only via the Cochrane Library.
The advantage of finding controlled trials via bibliographic databases Pubmed, Embase or CINAHL separately lies in the use of the advanced functionality of those databases, all of which may not be available in the Cochrane Library original interface. Yet, since CENTRAL contains controlled trial records from other sources as well, it should be always searched by researchers conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses, in addition to bibliographic databases.
A new eBook, Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional, has been added to our collection. This resource aims to build on the racial health equity work of public health advocates. Major themes and concepts include health inequities stemming from racism, the public health field’s anti-racism struggle, scientific literacy and the engagement of communities in color in health research, addressing racism in cancer care, and minority group-specific experiences with healthcare.
The authors note that this book is intended for use “in a wide range of settings including health departments, schools, and in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors where public health professionals work. It will also benefit students still in training and will also serve as a practical reference text for courses and workshops.”
The Library has added a new title to our collection, entitled Health Equity and Nursing: Achieving Equity Through Policy, Population Health, and Interprofessional Collaboration. This text focuses on how nurses can improve the health of all populations they serve, the significance of interprofessional collaboration, and the economic, environmental, personal, social, and structural factors that impact health status and outcomes.
A new eBook,