Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

PubMed now includes a new relevance sort option! The “Relevance” sort option is available from the “Display Settings” menu under the “Sort by” selections. This option was added to PubMed on October 22.

The relevance sort order for search results is based on an algorithm that analyzes each PubMed citation that includes the search terms. For each search query, “weight” is calculated for citations depending on how many search terms are found and in which fields they are found. In addition, recently-published articles are given a somewhat higher weight for sorting.

The most recent sort by selection is retained for subsequent search results until a different sort order is selected, or after eight hours of inactivity.

Read more about this exciting new feature here.

The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:

1. Environmental tracking for public health surveillance. By Stanley A Morain and Amelia M Budge. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press/Balkema, 2013.
Book summary available at: http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b20417709~S1
Call number: RA652.2.P82 E58 2013.

2. Research for the public good: applying the methods of translational research to improve human health and well-being. By Elaine Wethington and Rachel E Dunifon. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2012.
Table of contents available at: http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b20413883~S1
Call number: RA394 .R47 2012.

and here are a couple of new titles available online from the National Academies Press that are available online:

3. Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises. By the Committee on Understanding and Monitoring Abrupt Climate Change and Its Impacts; Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Research Council, 2013.
Available online at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18373
(free registration required to download pdf)

4. The Nexus of Biofuels, Climate Change, and Human Health. By Robert Pool, Rapporteur. Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Institute of Medicine, 2013.
Available online at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18493
(free registration required to download pdf)

Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.

You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).

If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.

EndNote is a bibliographic management program that allows you to to
automatically format in-text citations and your paper’s bibliography
with your chosen style (APHA, Chicago, JAMA, etc .). It also stores and organizes your citations.

EndNote has just released its latest version, X7 for Windows. This update
has several new features that make working with PDFs easier. One new
feature will allow you to set a folder on your computer to be monitored
by EndNote for new PDFs. When you open EndNote, all new PDFs in this
folder will automatically be added to existing citations in your EndNote library.

EndNote X7 will allow you to create a bibliography in Microsoft Word with
separate sections. You can create subsections divided by the type of
reference, or create the customized subsections that will best illuminate
your work.

X7, unlike previous versions, is compatible with Office 2013 and Windows 8.

Not sure if you need to upgrade? EndNote has a comparison chart of its latest four versions.

You can also download a free 30-day free trial of X7.

X7 for Mac is scheduled to be available in July.

Ever wanted an easier way to search the National Health Interview Survey
(NHIS)? The free online Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS) can help with this. Hosted by the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota, the IHIS contains annual NHIS survey data from the 1960s to the present. IHIS allows one to search for NHIS variables across the surveys.

IHIS has been updated recently to include data from the 2011 NHIS survey.
New topics of possible interest from the 2011 survey include use of
fitness facilities; reasons for not having a usual source of care; steps
taken in the past year to save money on medical care (e.g., delaying care,
skipping medication doses, buying medicine from foreign countries); most
recent ER visit; last health care visit; long-term care insurance; health
insurance coverage in the past 3 years; treatment of children’s mental
health; and food security.

Need to find the IHIS variable name for a NHIS variable? The IHIS-NHIS Concordance can help. You can also put in a NHIS variable name to learn the IHIS variable name.

More information about recent updates to IHIS is also available.

Want help using the online version of IHIS? They’ve created an exercise set to help you make best use of the database.

The Public Health Library will be closed on Friday, March 29th for the Cesar
Chavez holiday. Please plan ahead and anticipate your project needs,
especially if you will be using our Document Delivery service.

Regards,
Your Public Health Library staff