Immigrant Health

• Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
• Forced Migration and Refugee Studies guide > Journals (Northwestern University libraries)

Search filters or hedges are topic-specific search terms. They can provide starting points for structuring literature searching strategies or help to narrow literature search results by article type, text availability, publication date, species, language, sex, age, and other. They often are database-specific and may need to be converted to fit the syntax of each database other than the one for which they are initially designed.

Examples of search filters for immigrant health and related concepts include:

Immigrant Health

• Immigrant-specific and immigrant-sensitive search filters for PubMed

  • Search filters: Final, validated search filters for searching PubMed, last updated November 2022. Future updated filters available at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/B6EMH.

  • Article: Meeting a need: development and validation of PubMed search filters for immigrant populations (Wafford QE, Miller CH, Wescott AB, Kubilius RK, J Med Lib Assoc 112(1): 32-42, January 2024): DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2024.1716

• Search Filter in PubMed MEDLINE for Immigrant Health Disparities (Miller CM, Wescott AB, Kubilius RK, Wafford QE) - filter is included at the foot of the poster entitled "Development and Validation of a Search Filter in PubMed MEDLINE for Immigrant Health Disparities"

Related

• Emigrant - curated by the Canadian Health Libraries Association
• Hispanic/Latinx Search Hedges - curated by members of the Medical Library Association's LatinX Caucus (hedge deposited in Temple institutional repository site; Caucus site updated hedges are in progress)
• Immigrants - included in ISSG Search Filters Resource- Population Groups

Databases and further assistance

Immigrant health information is often multi-disciplinary. Refer to Galter Library's guide for core and A - Z database lists to identify databases that can be searched to retrieve potentially relevant literature. Need more assistance? Consult with Galter Library's liaison librarians for other information research and literature review support services.