Library Guides: BBH 201N: Health and the Media, and BBH 316: Foundations and Principles of Health Promotion (Harrisburg): Finding Information About Target Populations

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U.S. Census Bureau: Quick Facts
Use the search box on the left side of the screen to look up a city's, county's, or state's demographic data.
PA Stats
Basic yearly statistics produced by the Pennsylvania State Data Center.
Minority Population Profiles
Health information pertaining to specific racial/ethnic groups in the U.S.

Statistics (finding numbers)
Penn State's guide for finding statistical tables and data for all levels of government. Use the links on the left side of the screen to finding national, Pennsylvania, and international statistics.
Area and Cultural Studies Subject Guides
Links to guides for African/African American Studies; Asian/Asian American Studies; Latinx/Latin American Studies; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, among studies of other regions and demographics.

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
A source for scholarly journal articles from a sociological perspective.

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
PsycINFO (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
The best database for articles in Psychology. Helpful for topics concerning mental illnesses, and behavioral/psychological aspects of disease.

PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

News and News Sources
Newspapers can be useful for finding local and up-to-date information. This site links to Penn State's news databases.

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
Creates custom maps showing household income, crime, education, and many other socioeconomic statistics.

PolicyMap (www.policymap.com) is an online mapping application created by The Reinvestment Fund and contains over 15,000 indicators related to housing, education, mortgage originations, jobs and more. It’s fast, efficient and captures data in visually powerful ways through custom maps, tables and reports.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Creates maps and reports using American statistics from 1790 to the present.

Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. It allows you to easily create visual maps and reports for a variety of variables.