Public health terms - HEA 308

FYI on an assignment that you might encounter...

I just spoke with an online HEA 308 student who has been asked to find definitions from two sources each for 44 different public health terms, for instance

• mortality
• years of potential life lost

One source for defns may be their textbook, but they must also find a defn from another source. The alternate source can't be a dictionary.

The instructions mention journal articles, but obviously that approach will be great effort/little yield.

The instructions mention that internet sources may be used, as long as the source is reliable (no info given about specific criteria). A quick Google search for something like define mortality site:.gov leads to authoritative pages listing definitions for many common public health terms, for instance Mortality Module Definitions, part of a site from the Wisconsin Department of Health Svcs.

If you work with one of these students and want a library source for a definition, try a health encyclopedia or e-book collection. The e-books page for public health has some suggestions. With this one student, I searched the R2 library for years of potential life lost - quickly found a definition from a public health book.

Thanks,
Lea