Search for articles on your topic in PubMed:
1. Use search terms from these categories (keywords to be used in the database):
- Geographic area (city, county, state)
- Age / gender (adolescents, adults, men, women, etc)
- Ethnicity (Vietnamese-Americans, Latinos, Hispanic-Americans, African-Americans, etc)
- Other groups (transgendered, pregnant, disabled, HIV positive, gang members, etc)
- Ideas that note disparity situations (health disparities, disproportionate burden, underserved, etc)
- Health status, problems, needs (cervical cancer, obesity, smoking, asthma, lead, etc)
- Nature of study (comparison, program planning, report, etc.)
2.Select 2-3 keyword terms to search at a time.
3. Do several searches with different pairs of keyword terms.
Here's a sample search in PubMed using some of these categories.
